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.
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),...
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies welcomed (Ret.) Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield ('87), the School's inaugural Distinguished Fellow, for an informal coffee chat with Dean Scott Taylor on September 24, 2026. Joined by Pardee students, faculty, and staff, Chatfield looked back on her journey from a first-year Boston University student to one of...
Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, recently joined CGTN America to discuss the latest summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States' President Donald Trump. A former Chilean ambassador to China and co-author of Traversing the Belt and Road: The World According to China and China According to...
As Cuba continues to grapple with severe fuel shortages, economic hardship, and recurring blackouts, Paul Webster Hare, Master Lecturer and former British ambassador to Cuba, shared with the Wyoming Star his belief that policymakers should rethink Washington's approach to the island. Being one of many international relations experts interviewed for this piece, Hare argued that the Trump...
Quinn Slobodian, Pardee Professor of International History and author of Muskism (2026), was recently featured in a piece titled "Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI", by Eduardo Porter for The Guardian, discussing the growing public backlash against artificial intelligence infrastructure and what it reveals about the relationship between technology,...
In a recent commentary for the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Paul Webster Hare, Master Lecturer and former British ambassador to Cuba, analyzes the implications of a controversial oil agreement between the Trump administration and Venezuela's interim government led by Delcy Rodríguez, who assumed her role after the United States' removal of Nicolás Maduro from...
Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and Chilean ambassador to China, recently appeared on CGTN Europe to discuss the upcoming summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. During the interview, Heine underscored the significance of the meeting, noting both its historical significance...
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...