Join us for a Pardee School of Global Studies Beyond the Headlines event with Bilal Bilici, Member of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Parliament. Tuesday, September 29 • 11 AM to 12:30 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Bilici will discuss Turkey’s democratic […]
Join us for Geopolitics and Critical Minerals in the EU-Latin American Relationship, a lecture by Roberto Dominguez, Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Suffolk University. This event takes place as part of the Center for the Study of Europe’s Decentering Europe Series. The aim of our Decentering Europe series is to promote a critical […]
Join us for a conversation on the UK in a Europe Under threat with former British Foreign Service Officer, Paul Knott. Knott is joined in conversation by Pardee School professors Erik Goldstein, Amb. Paul Hare, and Amb. Vesko Garčević. This event will examine the current dynamics of UK–EU relations and UK–Russia relations, with particular attention to […]
Anna Di Lellio (New York University) is joined by literary translator Ellen Elias-Bursac for a discussion of The Strongest Link: Rape as Strategy, From Kosovo to Today’s Wars, the book she co-authored with Garentina Kraja (Oxford University Press, 2025). Drawing on oral history, Di Lellio and Kraja present the testimonies of women who survived weaponized […]
Please join us at 4 PM on Wednesday, September 9, as we celebrate the release of The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective by our colleague Vivien A. Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School and Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe. In this masterful book, [Prof. […]
Join us for a book talk by Jelena Diab Golubović, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at. Previously, she was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University. Golubović’s research is ethnographically grounded in the former Yugoslavia, where she explores hidden geographies of political violence. Her first book […]
Join us for a conversation around Controlling Immigration: A Comparative Perspective with James Hollifield, editor. James F. Hollifield is the Ora Nixon Arnold Fellow in International Political Economy, Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Tower Center at SMU in Dallas, Texas. Hollifield has served as an Advisor to various governments in North and South […]
Join us for The Future of NATO and US Alliances: A Conversation with Amb. Jeff Flake. Amb. Flake spent eighteen years representing Arizona in Washington: twelve years in the House, six in the Senate. During his time in office, he built a reputation for principle over politics. After the Senate, he was tapped to serve […]
The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented comparativists into closer conversation – please join us! Thursday September 10, 2026 • 12 to 1:30 PM “The Age of Hobsbawm” Emile Chabal, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Thursday, November […]
Join us for a conference exploring how economic and geopolitical developments have led the European Union to identify technological sovereignty as one of its core ambitions. What are the principal challenges the EU faces, and how have these changed as cloud computing and artificial intelligence become integrated features of modern economies? Will the EU be […]