Policy in action
April 22, 2019
Through the Donald C. Hellmann Task Force program, students in the Jackson School of International Studies tackle critical policy challenges — and set their career paths in motion. Follow the
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Making foreign policy one day at a time
April 1, 2019
From 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday, March 15, 142 Jackson School international studies seniors and a few Departmental Honors juniors tackled and presented their research to evaluators external to
Three Jackson School Cybersecurity Fellows receive Mary Gates Research Scholarships
March 15, 2019
Three of the Jackson School’s Cybersecurity Fellows—Conor Cunningham, Binh Truong, and Jion Yi—have received Mary Gates Research Scholarships to support their technology policy research, supervised by Jackson School faculty member
Mark Ward on Syrian refugees facing persecution in Assad regime | The Conversation
March 14, 2019
Retired Foreign Service Career Minister and Jackson School Lecturer Mark Ward writes about the plight of Syrian refugees and the dangers faced when returning home in an editorial published in
Montgomery on Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions | Global Policy Journal
March 1, 2019
Nuclear energy expert, geoscientist and Jackson School Lecturer Scott Montgomery discusses why Saudi Arabia desires nuclear power in an editorial titled “Why the Saudis want nuclear- and will get it.” “Much
Doctoral candidate on why U.S.-backed Venezuelan aid harkens back to a dark history | PRI’s The World
March 1, 2019
Kelsey Gilman, a Jackson School doctoral candidate, examines the history of U.S. aid in Venezuela in an article titled “Why US-backed aid to Venezuela harkens back to dark history of
Stroum Center’s Devin Naar and doctoral candidate preserve Ladino, a dying language | NBC News
March 1, 2019
In “Do you speak Ladino? Meet the folks trying to save a dying language,” Sephardic Studies Program Chair Devin Naar and doctoral candidate Molly FitzMorris were recently featured in the NBCnews.com
Clint Work: Why Kim Jong Un isn’t the sole problem in dealing with North Korea | Washington Post
March 1, 2019
In his recent commentary piece “The biggest obstacle to deal with Korea isn’t Kim Jong Un” Clint Work, a doctoral candidate from the Jackson School, argues that the American foreign policy establishment
Daniel Bessner: Historians should take over the government | The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 1, 2019
Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor of American Foreign Policy, Daniel Bessner examines the role of “left-wing scholars” in the sphere of public policy in a recent editorial published
Taso Lagos: Let’s give new meaning to college seniors | Seattle Times
January 28, 2019
In “Let’s give new meaning to college seniors,” Jackson School Lecturer Taso Lagos urges to get the over 60 generation into degree-granting college programs, and not to treat them as