NAME

Ross Pearce

CLASS

Junior

MAJOR

Political Science (International Relations)

WHY DO YOU WANT TO GO ON THE AUSTRIA/GERMANY ABROAD?

To gain a better understanding of Cold War policy through the lens of a country that was literally divided over it.  Also I am looking forward to seeing the progression of the German nation from its origin as a modern nation state with the Treaty of Westphalia to its current position as a member of one of the most advanced institutions of globalization, the European Union.

3 THINGS PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU:

1. I was invited to go to a conference put on by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where I met the head of Amnesty International and the general in charge of all United Nations peacekeeping forces.
2. I challenged one of my professors to a guitar hero battle at the pub and won while playing behind my back. 
3. I have what some would call an “unnatural” or “peculiar” fear of anteaters licking my brain through my ear canal.