The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy offers a year-long course (“Studies in Grand Strategy”) to Yale undergraduates and graduate students that addresses large-scale, long-term strategic challenges of statecraft, politics, and social change.
The course encourages understanding of historical and contemporary global and domestic challenges, while developing students’ capacity for strategic thinking and effective leadership in a variety of fields.
In their words
The first way we think of grand strategy is as a framework that you can add to your intellectual toolkit and that can help you make sense of a specific problem area, as well as potential solutions... But I think what is more powerful and more potent is that you can think of grand strategy as a disposition — to think of your life as a grand strategy. The program really helps you synthesize your values, to understand the forces in your life that bring you to a specific moment, and to understand your passions... I think it is really rare and special to come across a place at Yale that develops you in such an introspective way.
Victoria Kipngetich '24
Latest news from the Grand Strategy program
How cultural institutions are dealing with the Philippines’ authoritarian past
Just a generation ago, Filipinos lived under the dictatorial rule of Ferdinand Marcos. Elisa Cruz ’26 spent last summer in Manila to research the ways cultural institutions are fighting the nation’s collective denialism over these events to adequately address systemic social issues.
Identity shift – or not? Understanding Sweden joining NATO
Agnes Sjöblad ’26 details her summer research on the reasons for her native Sweden’s drastic shift from military neutrality to joining NATO. She found that the shift wasn’t as drastic as she first thought.
Yale Jackson School awards the 2025 Beck Prize recipient to Ethan Chiu
A student in the Jackson School's five-year B.A.-B.S./M.P.P. degree program, Ethan Chiu was recognized for being "diligent, persistent in asking questions, and deeply curious."
Immersive research
Every summer, grand strategy students embark on research trips — from Washington to Delhi, Manhattan to Madrid, and everywhere in between — that allow them to explore pressing political, economic, and social issues.