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On November 11, 2026, Jackson students and faculty members walked together to the university’s ceremony at Beinecke Plaza. Three Jackson veterans share what the day means to them.

Yale undergraduates met ambassadors, members of Parliament, and analysts in a summer course on populism, backsliding, and political extremism — and came home convinced that democracy cannot be taken for granted.

Yale Jackson political scientist discusses the mistakes of the Western left, the rise of the radical right, and Pedro Sánchez’s decision to call an early election in a conversation with the editor of Agenda Pública.

In a Q&A with Yale News, Julianne Smith, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO and a senior fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, discusses her course on the future of the transatlantic alliance and the inspiration she draws from teaching.

A Yale senior joined two Yale Jackson faculty members to present new findings on how cooperation across political divisions holds, and where it breaks down.

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.

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.