July 29, 2017
Posted by: Jessica Beyer
During spring quarter, one of the Jackson School’s Applied Research Program student teams was given a daunting task – help Microsoft think about Brad Smith’s call for a Digital Geneva Convention. In addition to weighing in on current Microsoft strategy, the students found out that they were working on the exact same research task that Microsoft had asked RAND to tackle. The project was the fifth product of a Jackson School Applied Research collaboration with Microsoft’s Global Security Strategy & Diplomacy Team.
July 26, 2017
Posted by: monick
The passing of the Arctic Council chairmanship gavel from Canada to the U.S. in 2015 was a highly anticipated event. The last two chairmanship terms were headed by two extraordinary individuals: the
July 26, 2017
Posted by: odedo
Jackson School Alumnus Benjamin C. Lee (B.A., International Studies and Chinese, 2015) is among 11 UW students and alumni who have been awarded a 2017-2018 U.S. Fulbright Program Scholarship. His Fulbright Research Fellowship
July 25, 2017
Posted by: rldavis
“While Aung San Suu Kyi remains, for many, a powerful symbol of the struggle for democracy, the time has come for stronger international pressure to condemn her moral abstention regarding
July 25, 2017
Posted by: Jessica Beyer
Ensuring accountability and transparency in the distribution of refugee aid has always been a herculean task. Mismanagement of funds is rife and more often than not, aid is swallowed up
July 24, 2017
Posted by: monick
When most people think about sailing, they dream about cruising on a sleek sailboat in warm, crystal-blue waters with the sun on their faces and not a care in the
July 21, 2017
Posted by: rldavis
“…being able to converse in ‘Taglish,’ the commonly spoken combination of Tagalog and English, has allowed people I’ve spoken with to represent their experience accurately, without being white-washed.” Hannah Bassett,
July 18, 2017
Posted by: Jessica Beyer
To improve education systems around the world Bridge International Academies (BIA) offers cheap schooling for the world’s poor. BIA offers teaching at a low cost with standardized pedagogy. Teachers use
July 17, 2017
Posted by: monick
Since 2007, the Arctic narrative has focused on the threat of climate change and the resulting prospects for oil and gas development. Seeing opportunity at the top of the world,
July 14, 2017
Posted by: odedo
Ph.D. Candidate Deep Pal, whose research focus is on India’s foreign policy toward China, argues in his op-ed “The 30-year itch in India-China ties” that the biggest foreign policy crisis of the year
