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.
A question that many Pardee students may have looming on their minds is what internships and job opportunities they may be able to land with their degrees in International Relations or anthropology. We’re glad to report that several Pardee students spent their summer and fall interning at the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. The...
BU alumnus Ambassador Michael Ratney ('83), who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, U.S. Charge in Israel and the U.S. Special Envoy for Syria visited Pardee from November 5-6, engaging with students on careers in global affairs and the challenges of the current Middle East. In an address organized by students from BU's Delta...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programs rarely deliver the investment boost they promise, according to new research led by Pardee Professor and Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Director, Kevin P. Gallagher. The study, "Adjustment without Accumulation: Evidence on Capital Formation from IMF Programs," appears in the Journal of Development Economics (Volume 182). In addition to Gallagher,...
Boston University's Alexander Hamilton Society hosted three Pardee School faculty members who had served their countries as ambassadors, plus another ambassador as an invited guest, to examine the evolution of world politics at a time that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has characterized as a "rupture" in world affairs. The panel discussion on October 22,...
What began with a simple observation on campus has grown into a promising research technology startup for Yuhan (Rose) Wei (Pardee'28). An International Relations major in the Anthropology track, Yuhan co-founded Insighta, a platform designed to help researchers recruit, verify, and manage study participants more efficiently. Alongside co-founders Selina Zhang (CAS'28) and Haowen Liu (Pardee'28),...
When thousands of political scientists filled the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, for the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in September this year, Dr. Christopher C. Graham, an affiliate researcher of the Pardee School’s African Studies Center and a smaller group of researchers worked parallelly on a different task. The 2026 JPSA-APSA...
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...
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...