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,

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

IPI Arctic Fellows Michael Brown (far right), M.A. student in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS), Brandon Ray, M.A. student in a joint program with JSIS and

Professor Emeritus Donald Hellmann speaks about recent tensions in North Korea and the nuclear bomb tests by Pyongyang. Hellmann calls North Korea a failed state, saying its leaders are busy preserving their regime.  

UW Today’s feature article on July 10, 2017 showcases a new series of essays written by students in the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute. Read the full article here:

“It seemed truly like the ending of a world. Seabirds were dying by the thousands in the muck. Vast stocks of salmon and herring and halibut would perish next.” This description in National

Many thought he was sick; some feared he was dead. But in October 1987, after 51 days spent planning in seclusion, Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev emerged in Murmansk and

In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first major political figure to deliver a speech on Arctic issues, setting in motion a process to establish a regional governance body. This week

“These are urgent times,” warned Carnegie Corporation of New York president Vartan Gregorian, “that require up-to-date, in-depth research to allow the vast learning reservoir of our universities to be of assistance

Professors Sunila Kale and Christian Novetzke co-author an article “Yoga and the Means and Ends of Secularism” detailing the ongoing legal cases in the U.S. and India over the role of yoga in public