This past year, DCID facilitated the signing of an MOU between the Foreign Trade University (FTU) and Duke’s Office of Global Affairs. The five-year agreement is the initial step in formulating a more rigorous engagement with FTU with DCID playing an important role in assisting with curriculum design and course development for their path-breaking new Political Economy program, coordinating faculty and student exchanges, and participating in joint research and conferences.

DCID intends to play a similar role in a partnership being established with the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland focusing on research, and faculty and student exchanges initially.