Jacob Patterson-Stein

Jacob Patterson-Stein is a second year Master of International Development Policy student. Prior to attending McCourt, Jacob worked for Thomson Reuters in Washington D.C., the More than Me Foundation in Liberia, and in a rural public school in South Korea. He spent summer 2013 working for the Support for Economic Analysis Development in Indonesia (SEADI) project in Jakarta.

International Affairs in 2013 – Part 2

In the opening remarks of his confirmation hearing, soon-to-be Secretary of State John Kerry quoted elder statesman Henry Kissinger: “Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.” As Senator Kerry noted, the quote is as true now as it was in […]

The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance: Youth Unemployment in the G20 and Africa is the Next Global Challenge

By Jacob Patterson-Stein Making predictions can be risky. Models fail, experts disagree, and externalities abound. There were people who claimed unrest in Tunisia would have minimal impact in the wider region. How many hats have been eaten in the last year? That said, if terrorism was the defining international issue of the first decade of […]

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