The Pardee School is a substantial and diverse center of global and international education within a liberal arts and sciences framework offering one of the largest graduate international affairs programs in the United States.
We combine a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to take on global challenges to human progress and well-being.
The Pardee School and Boston University have resources and a global alumni network to help set you on a path that is meaningful and serves a purpose for the larger world.
Study Abroad provides an opportunity to expand upon your classroom learning, improve your language skills and in many cases participate in an internship.
Can U.S. defense policy afford to pivot toward the Western Hemisphere? What would the consequences be for alliances and global politics? Those questions were at the center of a spirited debate hosted on October 8 by the Delta Phi Epsilon international relations fraternity, which brought students together with Pardee Distinguished Fellow (Ret.) Vice Admiral Shoshana...
A new BU Today profile by Rich Barlow, titled "International Relations Major Has Savored Many Cultures Before Arriving on Campus," spotlit Omar Frometa (Pardee'30), a freshman whose experiences living in the United States, Mexico, Lesotho, and South Africa helped shape his interest in global affairs and development. A Posse Scholar from California, Frometa was drawn...
Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and current non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, recently joined Sarang Shidore, director of the Quincy Institute’s Global South program, to discuss Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to the World (Harvard University...
Dr. Hoa Tran, former head of refugee policy and programs for East Asia Pacific and South Asia at the Department of State, and current Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning at Jesuit Refugee Service USA, told Pardee students of her journey from arriving in the United States as a refugee from Vietnam to obtaining...
Vivien Ann Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor Emerita of International Relations, and founding director of Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, is bringing her latest book, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2026), to academic audiences across North America through a...
Empire by Law: The Ottoman Origins of the Mandate System in the Middle East, published in 2026 by Columbia University Press, reexamines the late Ottoman Empire's role in shaping the modern Middle East and the international order that emerged after World War I. In this new book, professor Aimee Genell traces how contests over autonomy, sovereignty,...
For students of international relations, forced displacement is often discussed through statistics, policy debates, and headlines. But through their internships with Displaced International, a group of Pardee School students had the opportunity to engage with the issue from a more human and comparative perspective. This fall, Eleez Omar ('27), Ameera Saba ('27), Luisa Sinisterra ('28),...
Sanne Verschuren, Assistant Professor of International Security at the Pardee School of Global Studies, has published a new article in the Journal of Strategic Studies on September 21, 2026, examining an enduring puzzle in international security: why states repeatedly pursue collaborative military technology projects despite their frequent failures. In her article,“Why interstate arms collaborations fail: The...