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.
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...
On May 07, 2026, Professor John D. Woodward Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School and Director of the Boston University Division of Military Education, represented Boston University at the Japan Day ceremony held at the Massachusetts State House. This event, sponsored by the Massachusetts House Asian Caucus and the...
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...