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In recent years, Ireland has sought a health-led approach to drug use rather than punishment. Grand Strategy student Daniel Asabere traveled there this summer to research these complex efforts by speaking with clinicians, advocates, and policymakers.

The emerging scholar has joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as an assistant professor of political science and global affairs. By pairing satellite imagery with fieldwork in Uganda and Ghana, he traces how corruption shapes state-building in rural Africa.

In this student perspectives piece, Global Affairs major Jad Abdel Nour ‘28 reflects on hosting the author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria — and collaborating with Yale Jackson students and faculty.

Smith, a senior fellow at the Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment, argues that NATO's incident-by-incident response to sabotage and other attacks across Europe falls short of deterrence.

The second-year Masters in Public Policy student reflects on several days at the AI safety hub Lighthaven, where he and peers participated in an intensive residential program aimed at contributing to the AI safety and governance landscape.

The William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs will serve as president-elect in 2027 and president in 2028.

Drawing on two decades of peace work in Northern Ireland, Ó Tuama argued that art — not strategy — may be peacebuilding's most underused resource.

In the first installment of the Fall 2026 Yale Conversations series, Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks traces a history of human exploration, from Homo erectus to philosopher John Stuart Mill and Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson.

Part of the Blue Center’s Co-Lectures in the Theory and Practice of Statecraft series, the discussion focused on how artificial intelligence is transforming supply chain visibility and trade compliance, from environmental regulation to government sanctions.

The executive director of Human Rights Watch recently spoke at the Yale Jackson School about the “dire” challenges facing human rights advocacy and the hope he holds moving forward.