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Jackson School of Global Affairs to open fall 2022, Levinsohn named dean

Jackson School of Global Affairs to open fall 2022, Levinsohn named dean

Yale University President Peter Salovey announced Jan. 18 that the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs will open in the fall of 2022, and he named James A. Levinsohn, distinguished economist and educator, as inaugural dean. Levinsohn’s term begins July 1. The school is currently known as the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and Levinsohn, the Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, is its founding director. In 2019, the Yale Board of Trustees approved plans to expand the institute into a professional school that will train and equip a new generation of leaders to devise thoughtful, evidence-based solutions for challenging global problems....

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Realigning America’s Strategy Toward Korea

Realigning America’s Strategy Toward Korea

On April 13, Victor D. Cha, Professor at Georgetown University and former NSC Director for Asian Affairs, shared his thoughts on the North Korean nuclear issue in a special conversation titled “Realigning America’s Strategy toward Korea” at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs....

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Johnson Center conference addresses cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence

Johnson Center conference addresses cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence

Most companies are not very well prepared for the weaponizing of cyberspace by foreign governments. That was part of an assessment of the current state of cyberspace by Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Alphabet, Inc. and CEO of Google. Schmidt gave the remarks during his keynote address at the two-day annual conference of the Yale Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy, which kicked off on April 6. This year’s conference, “Understanding Cyberwarfare and Artificial Intelligence,” drew both academics and practitioners....

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Students trade up from a paperclip to a car

Students trade up from a paperclip to a car

Based on the children’s game Bigger and Better, the One Paperclip Challenge took off on the Internet in 2006, when it was the subject of a TED talk by a Canadian blogger who managed over the course of a year to trade his way up for a house. It’s also part of School of Management Professor Zoë Chance’s Mastering Influence and Persuasion course, where it’s intended to help students improve their powers of persuasiveness, while also getting used to rejection....