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.
A new report titled “Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism? An Assessment" by Marc Sommers, Affiliated Researcher at the Pardee School's African Studies Center, is prompting a critical reassessment of one of the world’s primary approaches to addressing violent extremism. Co-authored with Mai Nasrallah for the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), the report examines whether widely adopted P/CVE...
In a segment for The National, the flagship of CBC News, Paul Webster Hare, Master Lecturer at the Pardee School and former British ambassador to Cuba, commented on the significance of King Charles and Queen Camilla's visit to President Trump's home base in Washington DC. This visit unfolds against a backdrop of tension over trade and...
Written by Mia Knezevic (BA IR ’26) On Wednesday, April 15, PardeeWorks hosted the event, “Careers in U.S. Foreign Service,” where students had the opportunity to hear from Foreign Service Officers Brian Gibel, Director of the Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State; and Jenny Palmer, Cultural...
In a May 4, 2026 interview on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, warned that the Trump administration’s approach to Iran and Europe is severely straining U.S. alliances and undermining long‑standing security arrangements. Berger argued that President Trump’s decision to withdraw roughly 5,000 U.S. troops from...
In a newly article published by The World Bank Research Observer, “Taking Stock of Africa’s Economic Transformation: Rethinking Sources of Productivity Growth,” Solomon Owusu, Assistant Professor of Global Economic Policy at the Pardee School, and his collaborators, Douglas Gollin, Margaret McMillan, Emmanuel Mensah, and Gideon Ndubuisi, reexamine one of development economics’ most enduring questions: how...
On May 1, 2026, Professor John D. Woodward Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, gave the keynote presentation at Law Day events hosted by the Virginia Mountain Valley Lawyers’ Alliance. Woodward spoke on the topic, “Operation Flavius: Who Guards the Guards, Who Watches the Watchers.” This title refers to...
In his article published in January 2026 for Journal of Global History, “Escaping Washington’s Tutelage: Latin America, the League of Nations, and International Law,” Andrei Mamolea, Assistant Professor of International Relations, reconsiders Latin America’s role in the interwar international order, arguing that the region was far more coordinated and influential in Geneva than existing scholarship...
In a recent Project Syndicate op-ed, “Escaping the IMF Austerity Trap,” Pardee Professor and Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Director, Kevin P. Gallagher, co-authoring with Kenyan economist and former finance minister Njūgūna S. Ndūng'ū, critiques the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) continued reliance on austerity-driven lending programs in the Global South. Against the backdrop of global...