Research at the Pardee School brings together talent from across Boston University. The School’s research portfolio includes projects undertaken by Pardee School’s core faculty, Centers and Institutes, and research initiatives.
The Pardee School's 7 affiliated research centers are dedicated to advancing human progress. Each center has a regional or thematic focus: African Studies; Asian Studies; European Studies; Latin American Studies; Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA); Global Development Policy (GDP Center); and the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Dean Emeritus Adil Najam argues that climate change is no longer a future threat. It is a real and present danger today.
At a conference hosted by the Institute of International Relations at West Indies University, Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, launched his new book, Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order:...
At a conference co-hosted by the ZOE Institute for Future-Fit Economies and European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, discussed the challenges of populism to social policy while...
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, published an article in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence reviewing The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence by Douglas London. In the review, titled "Successful Case Officers: Chameleon Meets the Confessional," Wippl praises...
Dean Emeritus and Professor Adil Najam joined a panel of international experts in Brussels at the Delegation of the Basque Country to the European Union on March 28, 2023, for the launch of the book Building Collaborative Governance in Times of Uncertainty, in which he has written a chapter on "Collaborative Governance as Jazz." Edited...
A book review from Ambassador Heine's latest work focuses on regional cooperation, non-dependence on the United States, and an increasing trend towards non-alignment.
Mao’s Road to Power consists of translations of Mao Zedong’s writings from 1912 to 1949; this final volume in the series, Volume 10, covers the period from the Chinese Communist Party’s Strategic Offense during the Civil War to the Establishment of the People's Republic of China.
A panel of legal and political science experts explored the effectiveness of sanctions in inhibiting authoritarianism, using case studies from Hungary, Poland, and Venezuela.