Ph.D. Program
Letter to Prospective Ph.D. Students
Georgetown's Department of Government is one of the leading Ph.D. programs in the United States. Our faculty has expertise in all major regions of the world including the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Antarctic. We also have a wide range of functional expertise and offer training in international relations (security studies, international political economy, U.S. foreign policy, and international law, institutions, and ethics), comparative politics (comparative methodology, development theory, democratic transitions, state building, and the political economy of development), political theory (classical and medieval philosophy, early modern political thought, continental political thought, federalism and early American political thought), and American government (the presidency, Congress, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, political parties, women and politics, and public opinion and political behavior).
Please explore further each of our fields of expertise:
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