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.
On March 26, 2026, Boston University alumni, financial leaders, and friends of the Pardee School of Global Studies gathered at the University Club in New York City for an evening focused on the Prospects for the African Future. Organized as a tribute to and celebration of Pardee’s African Studies Center (ASC), the event highlighted the...
On April 09, 2026, Norman T. Roule, a distinguished Middle East expert, provided an update on Iran to faculty and students at the Pardee School. A former colleague of Professor Joseph W. Wippl and John D. Woodward, Jr., Mr. Roule served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he directed numerous programs focused on...
Channel 10, the Boston NBC affiliate ran an assessment of reactions to the Iran War ceasefire announcement April 9 for which they drew on comments by Mark Storella, Pardee Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy. In the segment, "How people are reacting to Trump's threats to Iran and ceasefire announcement,” the TV journalists noted that...
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, published by HarperCollins, examines a new ideological framework shaping contemporary debates about technology and power. In this new book, co-authors Ben Tarnoff and Professor Quinn Slobodian move beyond Elon Musk’s outsized public persona to analyze the broader system implied by his business practices and political ambitions: one that promises...
Boston University has been recognized by the Peace Corps as one of the nation’s top volunteer‑producing graduate schools, ranking No. 5 in the agency’s newly released 2026 Top Volunteer‑Producing Colleges and Universities list. During the past fiscal year, eight BU graduate alumni served as Peace Corps volunteers, placing the University among a select group of...
On March 19, 2026, recent Pardee School of Global Studies graduates Lexi Pfalzgraf (’24) and Michelle Kaplun (’21) traveled to New York City to mark a major milestone in their professional journeys: the successful initial public offering of their company, ROC (Rank One Computing Corp), on the NASDAQ. The company, which integrates sovereign biometric, video...
In a recent op-ed for The Wire titled 'Why China Should Boost its Lending To Developing Countries,' Pardee Professor and Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Director, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Rebecca Ray, Senior Academic Researcher at the GDP, argue that China’s retreat from overseas development lending has come at a critical moment for the global...
In her newest publication, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective, Professor Vivien Ann Schmidt brings decades of influential scholarship on ideas and discourse into a single, ambitious volume that reframes how political scientists and social scientists understand power, legitimacy, and change. Drawing on work begun in the late...