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The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies is pleased to present the second issue of the Pardee Magazine. Building on last year’s inaugural edition, this issue reflects the school’s enduring commitment to rigorous, interdisciplinary, problem-driven research and education focused on the world’s most pressing challenges.
Andrei Mamolea, Assistant Professor of International Relations, recently joined the editorial board and spoke at the inaugural conference of the Romanian Yearbook of International and European Law (RYIEL), an initiative led by Iulia Motoc, the Romanian judge on the International Criminal Court and former judge on the European Court of Human Rights. In his presentation,...
Pardee Professors Min Ye, Jorge Heine, and Grant Rhode, along with Professor Andrew Wilson from the Naval War College, coedited a new book, Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to the World, that examines the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) impact since its launch.
Tsitsi Musasike, Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, alongside other collaborators, recently published an article in The Extractive Industries and Society, entitled “Lithium extraction and developmental embeddedness in Zimbabwe: Chinese-led investment and local development outcomes.” The research analyses Chinese-led transition mineral extraction and development in...
Kaija Schilde and Ambassador Vesko Garčević represented Boston University at the second TANDEM Dialogue and the first TANDEM academic conference, held at American University's School of International Service in Washington, D.C., from 15 to 17 October 2026. TANDEM, the Transatlantic Network for Dialogue, Education and Multidisciplinary Research, is a Jean Monnet network funded by the...
Professor Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, was invited as the global President of WWF to address world leaders along with the UN secretary General Antonio Guetteres and numerous heads of states at the Leaders Summit, convened by the Prime Minister of Armenia to coincide with the beginning of...
As global economic leaders gathered in Thailand last week for the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) team was on-site in Bangkok to bring research and solutions into these policy conversations. Kevin Gallagher, Pardee Professor of Global Development Policy and...
