Bettina Lutz
Nationality: German
Degree: MA International Relations,
2003
Current Employment: Junior
Consultant, PUBLICIS Public Relations, Berlin,
Germany
Studying International Relations at
Webster Graduate School in London taught me two sides of
International Relations: the academic and the personal.
On the academic side of International
Relations, we learned and analysed various political theories,
their realisation, methodologies and ways of research. We discussed
politics in the time of globalization; segregation in communities,
and polarization in the time of pre-war, post-crisis, post-war and
never-ending crisis. We tried to understand the diverse influences
that make the world what it is. We tried to understand why and how
history was, and what the future holds. We understood that we can
only try to understand.
On the personal side of International
Relations, we learnt it is possible for nearly all ethnicities,
friends and enemies, to sit in one class-room, to listen to one
professor and to share one lunch-break – suddenly we shared the
same interests!
I built up some nice international
relations during my time at Webster – relations that are still
enjoyable, still entertaining, still amusing, still interesting and
still intact. At Webster, in our microcosms of the classroom, we
managed to create the perfect world: different races, different
ethnicities, different religions, different genders, different
nationalities - all in one room, respecting everybody. Now, I look
to transferring this microcosm into macrocosm and to transfer the
respect in the classroom to the respect in the world.
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