Well honestly I’m not sure about Brown, but Chicago has quite a lot of IR offerings, even if it doesn’t have a major in IR (you’d choose Polisci instead). There’s the newly launched Pearson Institute, which was made possible by a $100 million gift, which will bring foreign policy leaders to campus on an annual basis and will study global conflicts; there’s the Institute of Politics, which brings lots of interesting speakers to campus (I saw the UN ambassador to Palestine, for example, Chance the Rapper, who talked about activism, and also Jon Huntsman, to name a few luminaries who have come to campus recently). Those are some of the main extracurricular things I can think of, but the major itself is pretty good, as we have people like Robert Pape and John Mearsheimer.