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The event brought more than two dozen Spanish journalists, academics, business leaders, and government officials to Jackson for conversations with faculty members from across Yale.

Yale Law professor Harold Koh and former Pentagon official Rheanne Wirkkala examined Congress’s diminishing role in foreign affairs, arguing that legislative inaction has increasingly concentrated foreign policy power in the executive branch.

During a Blue Center event, Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir discussed Iceland’s role within NATO and the Arctic, and her rapid rise from Jackson School graduate to the world’s youngest serving head of government.

Nine years after graduating from Yale Jackson, Kristrún Frostadóttir returned to New Haven as Prime Minister of Iceland — and the world's youngest sitting head of government — for a fireside chat with Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment director Phil Kaplan.

Peace Fellow Jaser Abu Mousa, a Palestinian political analyst and development specialist, speaks about his life, career, and hopes for peace in the Middle East.

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.

Retired General Timothy Haugh, the former commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, will join the Blue Center as a Senior Fellow for fall 2025, where he will teach a seminar on intelligence, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.

Professor Timothy Snyder and former National Security Council official David Shimer examined U.S. support for Ukraine, Russian disinformation, and the challenges facing efforts to end the war more than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.

During an event at the Yale Jackson School, the former diplomat discussed how growing global threats are creating "a ring of fire" around the democratic world.

Kosovo’s prime minister delivered remarks at the Yale Jackson School September 30, 2024, the first event hosted by the Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment.