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.
Pardee School graduate Isabel Silagy (MA IR and Security Studies '25) co-authored a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2025), published in December 2025. The chapter, titled "Norms, Legitimacy, and Compliance: Between International Law and Politics," was written with co-author Ezgi Yildiz and appears as Chapter 3...
An article for The Hindustan Times titled When world leaders speak like academics, spotlit the book, The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition (Polity Press 2025), written by Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and Chilean ambassador, and his co-authors, Carlos Fortin and...
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been appointed as Honorary Professor at the Institute of International Studies (IEI) at the University of Chile, one of Latin America’s oldest and most distinguished centers for the study of global affairs. Founded in 1966, the IEI has...
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was invited by Al Jazeera Media Network/the Arab Network to comment on the EU–Western Balkans Summit held in Tivat, Montenegro, on June 5, as well as the European Union’s approach to enlargement. Prior to the summit, France and Germany presented a...
Nick Burk (CAS ’00), Co-Founder and Managing Director of Blue Ocean Analytics (BOA), a mission-driven venture established in 2018 to help organizations foster innovation in response to complex overlapping crises, reflects on how his experience studying international relations at Boston University shaped his career in disaster management, the motivations behind launching BOA, and his ongoing efforts...
A recent analysis for Emerging Europe, an editorial platform by Reinvantage, of the European Union’s €150 billion Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative highlights both the urgency and the complexity of strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities amid rising geopolitical threats. In this analysis, the author referred to Dr. Kaija Schilde's testimony before the European parliament in...
In an opinion piece for The Jerusalem Post titled "The Iran war exposed the weakness of old strategic assumptions," Paul Webster Hare, Master Lecturer at the Pardee School and former British ambassador to Cuba, reflects on how the recent Iran war has fundamentally challenged long-held assumptions about security, deterrence, and diplomacy in the Middle East....
Paul Webster Hare, Master Lecturer at the Pardee School and former British ambassador to Cuba, was recently interviewed by the German magazine, Focus, for a feature on Donald Trump’s White House and its distinctive communication style. With more than three decades of diplomatic experience, including postings in Cuba and China and teaching at Harvard, Hare...