Najam’s Keynote to Young Diplomats Focuses on Building a Better International Order
Professor Adil Najam, WWF’s Global President and Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, was invited to deliver the keynote address at the XIXth Summer School for Young Diplomats, held in Kolašin, Montenegro, making it his third year attending. Organized by Montenegro’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in partnership with UNDP and the country’s Diplomatic Academy, the annual program brought together young diplomats and foreign service professionals from nearly 50 countries for a week of training, dialogue, and collaboration on the future of diplomacy. This year marked not only the 19th installment of this program, but the 20th year of Montenegro’s independence....
Mondesire Explores the Future of Black Internationalism in New Essay
In an essay published in part of the 25th anniversary volume of SOULS, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of Black Studies, Zachary Mondesire, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, examines how Black internationalist movements have understood global struggles for justice and why some contemporary crises receive greater attention than others. Titled “On the Black International Gaze,” the essay asks a provocative question: why has Black internationalist solidarity mobilized so powerfully around Palestine while often engaging more cautiously with conflicts in places such as Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo?...
Mako Co-Authors Chapter on Iraq’s Ba’th Party Archives
Shamiran Mako, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, has co-authored the opening chapter of a new edited volume from Stanford University Press, The Ba’th Party Archives and the Study of Iraqi Politics and History, edited by Samuel Helfont and Lisa Blaydes. Co-authored with Marsin Alshamary and titled “Arrested History: Hierarchized Knowledge Production and Iraq’s Ba’th Party Archives,” the chapter opens the volume by confronting one of its most pressing tensions directly....
Meet Sanford’s Academic Program Directors
As the 2026–2027 academic year approaches, the Sanford School of Public Policy’s programs will continue under the leadership of six faculty members....
Zielinski Co-Authors New Research on Battlefield Coalition Formation
Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Professor of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has co-authored a new article, "When Do Militaries Fight Battles Together?", published in Security Studies (2026) with Ryan Grauer of the University of Pittsburgh....
Sharma Reflects on Oxford Fellowship and Persian Manuscript Research
Professor Sunil Sharma, Director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) and a leading scholar of Persianate literary and cultural history, recently returned from the prestigious Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, where he is conducting ongoing research on the transmission and reception of Persian literary texts across South Asia, Central Asia, and Iran....
Raymond Wang Joins Pardee School as Assistant Professor of International Relations
We’re pleased to announce that Raymond Wang will be joining the Pardee School of Global Studies as Assistant Professor of International Relations. At Pardee, Wang will teach courses on international relations, Chinese foreign policy, and global governance. Wang said he looks forward to contributing to and being part of Pardee’s interdisciplinary environment....
Pardee School Welcomes Dr. Mariana Díaz Chalela as New Assistant Professor of International History
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University welcomes Dr. Mariana Díaz Chalela as Assistant Professor of International History. Dr. Díaz Chalela is a historian of modern Latin America whose research and teaching focus on economic development, political violence, property rights, and transitional justice....
University of Chile Honors Professor Emeritus Jorge Heine
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been appointed as Honorary Professor at the Institute of International Studies (IEI) at the University of Chile, one of Latin America’s oldest and most distinguished centers for the study of global affairs. Founded in 1966, the IEI has built a strong regional and international reputation for its interdisciplinary approach to international relations, examining political, legal, economic, and historical dimensions of global issues. Heine’s appointment reflects both his significant contributions to global policy scholarship and his longstanding ties to Chile’s premier academic institutions....
Lori Co-Edits Special Issue on Time, Migration, and Political Possibility
Professor Noora Lori co-edited a special issue of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press, 2026) that was published this June, and co-authored the introduction article titled “Mobile Temporalities and Political Possibilities: Expanding the Temporal Turn in Migration Studies.” Co-written with Anne McNevin (The New School for Social Research) and Loren B. Landau (University of Oxford), the introduction launches a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project that brings together scholars from politics, sociology, geography, and anthropology to rethink how time shapes, and is shaped by, human migration and mobility....
From Protest to Polarization: A Collaborative Study of the Reopen Movement
Protests and Radicalization in the Digital Age: The Reopen Movement, published by Cambridge University Press, examines how social movements emerge, evolve, and radicalize in an era shaped by social media and digital infrastructure. The book is the result of a deeply collaborative, interdisciplinary effort between Boston University faculty and alumni. Together, they combine political science, data science, and computational analysis to offer a nuanced account of the “Reopen” movement during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Co-authors include Pardee’s own Professor Jeremy Menchik and Clara Martiny (BA IR ’21) as well as several Boston University affiliates such as Dr. Gianluca Stringhini, Associate Professor at the College of Engineering; Dr. Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS); Pujan Puadel, Doctorate Recipient in Computer Engineering; and Seth Soderborg, SNS Analytics....
Nolan’s ‘Until I Find You’ Awarded for its Contribution to Guatemalan History
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 from the Latin American Studies Association, giving it the Best Book Award on Recent History and Memory, a biennial honor highlighting outstanding scholarship on the region’s past. It also earned the Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize from the New England Council on Latin American Studies, ...