For many of our alumni spread out in 100 countries across the globe, there was no Pardee School when you attended Boston University, only the Department of International Relations. We are now a full-fledged school: YOUR school.
There are many ways to engage with your alma mater, and we hope you do!
Our Pardee School alumni spotlights share the stories of our illustrious alumni and how their experience at BU shaped their professional journey after graduation.
Professor Jessica Stern contributed to a National Academy of Sciences report on preventing nuclear terrorism. Her insights on the blurring boundaries between domestic and international terrorism and state and non-state actors are pivotal. The report emphasizes vigilance, funding, coordination, and new technologies to mitigate nuclear terrorism threats.
Recent Pardee alumna Sarah Soussi (MAIA '24) published an analysis of African Union's public diplomacy on USC Center blog. Her article examined AU's Agenda 2063, youth engagement strategies, and economic initiatives. Soussi, mentored by former British diplomat Paul Webster Hare, contributed to academic discourse on Africa's evolving diplomatic efforts.
Ambassador Mark C. Storella, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been awarded the 2024 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Prize for Faculty Excellence. This prestigious award recognizes faculty members who exemplify the school's mission to advance human...
NATO Parliamentary Assembly elevates Kosovo's status and grants Bosnia and Herzegovina candidacy. Professor Vesko Garčević emphasizes the symbolic importance and calls for increased EU-NATO engagement in the Balkans. He warns of Russian risks and stresses the need for Euro-Atlantic integration to ensure long-term regional stability.
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University is pleased to announce that Yemariam Gebeyehu, an International Relations student, has been selected as one of 20 students from underrepresented communities across the United States to participate in the inaugural Meridian-Cox Foreign Service Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Washington, DC this summer. The...
In an opinion piece published in the Jerusalem Post on June 9, 2024, former UK diplomat Paul Hare, Master Lecturer in International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) argues that recent diplomacy by the United States, China and Arab Gulf...
In a commentary published on June 13, 2024, Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, examines the changing attitudes of Silicon Valley's techno-libertarians towards government involvement in their ventures. Titled "How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government," the article follows the journey of figures like...
On June 10, 2024, Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the School’s Center for the Study of Asia an anthropologist and global affairs expert at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Affairs, was interviewed about his latest book "Islam and Citizenship in...