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.
Urban Refuge, the refugee resource initiative launched a decade ago, has reached a major milestone with the debut of its new website, UrbanRefugeMap.org. Originally developed in 2016 as part of Professor Noora Lori's “Forced Migration Policy Incubator” course, the project has since evolved into a signature Pardee School effort involving dozens of students and alumni....
Elisa Cifiello (BA IR ’20), now an Associate at Clarmondial in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects on how her Pardee School education shaped her path into climate and sustainable finance. After early roles as a Data Analyst, International & European Relations Analyst, and Climate Finance Analyst, where she consistently worked with complex datasets, cross‑team collaboration, and policy...
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Pardee Professor of the Practice of International Relations, appeared on Newsmax Balkans’ foreign policy talk show Sinteza on May 14 to share his analysis of the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, held in Beijing on May 13–14. His remarks formed part of a broader discussion on the global...
In a recent conversation for UNIVISION, the leading Spanish-language TV channel in the United States, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and Chilean ambassador to China, discussed the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. This being first visit by a U.S. president since 2017 to the countries' main strategic rival...
On April 29th, Research Professor Jessica Stern delivered the 2026 Paul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, presenting new research on how societies can better prevent acts of public violence. This yearly lecture honors Paul Wilkinson, the prominent terrorism professor and...
Until I Find You, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2024 publication by Professor Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International History, was recently given two awards which recognizes its deeply researched account of Guatemala’s international adoption industry, tracing how a system framed as humanitarian became entangled in inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. The first recognition comes...
Andrei Mamolea, Assistant Professor of International Relations, contributed a chapter titled “A Fanatical Support for the League of Nations” to The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law, published April 2026. Throughout the piece, Mamolea re-centers Latin America’s interwar internationalism on an unlikely but pivotal actor: Uruguay. The chapter argues that the...
The Frederick S. Pardee School welcomed Professor Justin Yifu Lin as the speaker for the 2026 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture, where he delivered an in‑depth talk titled China’s Modernization: Path and Implications. As one of the world’s leading scholars of development economics and China’s political economy, Lin drew on a career spanning academia...