The Pardee School’s Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives aim to both develop and share knowledge of specific regions and their states, societies, cultures, languages, peoples, and environment. They foster rigorous, transformative scholarship that crosses existing national, regional, and disciplinary boundaries.
As global economic leaders gathered in Thailand last week for the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) team was on-site in Bangkok to bring research and solutions into these policy conversations. Kevin Gallagher, Pardee Professor of Global Development Policy and...
When thousands of political scientists filled the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, for the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in September this year, Dr. Christopher C. Graham, an affiliate researcher of the Pardee School’s African Studies Center and a smaller group of researchers worked parallelly on a different task. The 2026 JPSA-APSA...
As tensions simmer across the Indo-Pacific, the Philippines' military modernization efforts and the role of US alliances are reshaping regional security calculations with potential consequences that extend far beyond Manila's shores and into Taiwan. This was the focus of a recent discussion at the Pardee School of Global Studies. Hosted by Boston University's Center for...
Vivien Ann Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor Emerita of International Relations, and founding director of Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, is bringing her latest book, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2026), to academic audiences across North America through a...
Daivi Rodima-Taylor, research associate at the African Studies Center recently contributed new scholarship on collaborative economies, debt, diaspora, and digital platforms, with a focus on Africa and the Global South.
In a new article published in Security Studies, Jeremy Menchik, Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Director of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), offers a provocative reassessment of one of the defining features of modern American foreign policy: democracy promotion. In his piece, "American Democracy Promotion and...
In July 2026, a group of researchers and staff from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) traveled to Beijing, China. This was part of bi-annual trip to engage with Chinese partners and stakeholders, and share their latest research and exchange ideas with policymakers, development finance institutions, and academics through workshops and meetings....
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed eight Boston University graduate students as the 2026 cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows Program. Running from May 26 through July 31, the 10-week fellowship provides master's and doctoral students with the opportunity to conduct independent, future-oriented, policy-relevant research while participating in...