Major Nicholas Dockery, MPP ’23, was awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday, June 18 — the nation’s highest award for combat valor. A Downing Fellow at Yale Jackson, Dockery was recognized for his actions during a 2012 Taliban ambush in Afg…
A new program with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation brought 15 Ukrainian veterans — soldiers, advocates, and policymakers in the making — to New Haven for a week of leadership training and exchange. Yale Jackson welcomed a cohort of 15 Ukraini…
Learn more about upcoming events sponsored by the Peacebuilding Initiative. Peace is a state of human relations to which many would aspire—yet find hard to sustain. It is increasingly apparent that peace cannot be treated as a given. Rather…
A senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and Department of Economics, Amand explores stablecoins, international trade, and why the plumbing of global finance is suddenly a policy question. Marnix Amand came to economics
The Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment supports the interdisciplinary study of security and statecraft by bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, and supporting research and teaching related to national defense, diplo…
The following Faculty Research Initiatives are currently active at the Blue Center. The first Trump Administration imposed tariffs mainly on Chinese goods, most of which were maintained or expanded by the Biden administration. In 2025, the
Participants in the International Leadership Center’s Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship gathered on campus in March 2026 for a week of dialogue and professional development. Trishna Nagrani leads Asian expansion for Climeworks, a global c…
Jackson faculty include a core group of eminent academics, Professors of Global of Affairs; distinguished practitioners, Senior Fellows; and interdisciplinary faculty with appointments with the Jackson School and other affiliated faculty fr…
Why are Christian churches in parts of Africa defending liberal democracy? Kate Baldwin’s new book shows how religious institutions back democratic systems to protect their independence. Christian churches in sub-Saharan African nations lik…
The United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum to leave the European Union — Brexit — triggered a sweeping and often counter-intuitive realignment inside the UK Conservative Party. A new study co-authored by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Politic…
Exploring novel solutions to complex social problems The Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs’ Social Innovation Initiative convenes students, practitioners, and scholars working on social innovation to address the world’s most pressing pr…
The International Leadership Center (ILC) develops and supports innovative, effective, and adaptive leaders to address the most acute and complex challenges facing the world. We facilitate the growth of leaders dedicated to preventing confl…