Public Profile
The Georgetown Center for Sovereign Partition Studies is a research institute housed within Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, dedicated to the academic study of national partition — its mechanics, its nomenclature, and its historically consistent failure to produce the outcomes its architects intend.
Founded in 2011 by a group of political scientists, cartographers, and linguists who observed that the twentieth century had produced enough partitions to constitute a field of study, the Center has since become the leading academic institution devoted to what its founding charter describes as “the orderly study of the disorderly dissolution of sovereign states.” It maintains a database of 143 partition events across 67 countries, dating to the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, and publishes the semiannual Journal of Partition Studies, which has a readership its editors describe as “small but extremely invested.”
The Center’s faculty includes specialists in boundary cartography, partition economics, population transfer logistics, and the linguistic conventions by which newly formed nations name themselves. Its senior research fellow, Dr. Elspeth Thorngaard, is regarded as the foremost authority on the relationship between geographic nomenclature and political boundary formation.
The Center has been consulted by the United Nations, the African Union, and, as of March 2026, the United States Senate. Its director, Professor Alistair Carmody, has described this last development as “not surprising, given the data, but somewhat ahead of our projected timeline.”
Articles
- Congress Debates Splitting Blue and Red America Into Two Nations: Trans America and Cis America — The naming convention, derived from Latin prefixes denoting geographic orientation, has generated no controversy whatsoever.
- Flight Attendant Who Crosses Greenland Twice a Week Is Quietly Troubled That She Has Never Once Spotted the For-Sale Sign — She has begun bringing binoculars, in the event the listing is a small one.
- Bipartisan Caucus Sponsors Bill to Rename the United States the 'United Federation of Planets' — The measure has been referred to four committees, none of which can agree on whether it concerns foreign affairs.
- Senator Introduces Bill to Dissolve the Canadian Border, Arguing That a Mass Influx of Canadians Would Improve the Country — The measure has been referred to three committees, none of which has yet determined whether a nation can be invaded at its own request.
- Half a Child Apiece: On the Bisection of the American Question and the Two Legislators Perfectly Content With Their Portions — Solomon proposed the sword as a diagnostic instrument; the American legislature has since adopted it as a method, and both claimants now leave the chamber pleased.