George Sieniawski: Gervase Programs: Learning to Lead

Born in New York City to an eccentric family of Brazilian émigrés, George Paiva Sieniawski is currently an undergraduate at Georgetown University. Over the past twenty years, George has developed a passion for writing, an aversion to the passive voice, and an irreverent sense of humor. During the next forty, George dreams of becoming a documentarian of scientific discoveries on WGBH’s enthralling NOVA series, and hopes to write a column in the Financial Times about technological innovation.

For the moment, though, George's academic focus is public international law, particularly as it pertains to various human security issues which require multilateral cooperation and swift collective action. Human security entails a paradigm “shift in the way we think” about international politics, by broadening the notion of national interest, by putting “people at the center of everything,” and by discarding obsolete models of state behavior. Over the course of the next year, George will be conducting research for a senior thesis that links the idea of human security with Joseph Nye's idea of complex interdependence (an explicit rejection of “the classical realists' obsession with the ever-present possibility of war among sovereign states”). George promises that it will make for a good read.