Graduate Students Tackle Global Policy Challenges Through Hands-on Fieldwork
Students in the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy program traveled across the globe to work on policy projects addressing AI safety, climate change, public trust in local government, and more.
David Rehkopf takes over leadership of the Stanford Longevity Center with the goal of helping older people discover their potential for the years after retirement.
In a recent session of Stanford Continuing Studies’ "Reimagining Democracy" series, Anna Grzymala-Busse and Alberto Díaz-Cayeros compared Europe and Latin America and reached a shared conclusion: democracy can recover from illiberal rule, but only where it delivers for citizens and voters keep showing up.
Amy Zegart joins Colin Kahl on the World Class podcast to discuss what's familiar and what's novel in how nations and other actors are competing politically, militarily, economically, and technologically.
Raša Nedeljkov, Dragana Žarković Obradović, and Gazela Pudar Draško explained the deeply unequal conditions under which Serbia’s October 25 election is taking place, and how a student-led movement has built an unusual challenge to the ruling party.
The Class of 2028, the largest incoming cohort to date in the program, joins the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy from 19 countries and regions from around the world.
Research by CDDRL pre-doctoral fellow Christopher Dann finds that 21st-century autocracies use large-scale infrastructure to win public confidence and sustain authoritarian rule.
Backed by the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at the Freeman Spogli Institute, an interdisciplinary student team convened leaders across the military, software and hardware engineering, policymaking, and capital investment for the event, commonly referred to as "StanfordDEFCON."
Alexandra Vacroux and Yevhenii Malik of the Kyiv School of Economics said Russia’s strikes on Kyiv are escalating while cheap drones and robots hold the front line in place, a shift in warfare that Ukraine’s rivals are studying closely.
Nearly 50 years after Stanford economist Alain Enthoven introduced "managed competition," he and SHP’s Sara Singer look at why the strategy never fully caught on and recommend ways to make it work in today's consolidated health-care market.
Aleksandar Matovski’s “pressure cooker” framework explains why Russia absorbs some military setbacks quietly yet responds to others with nuclear threats and mobilization.
Thai scholar Pavin Chachavalpongpun argues that the Thai monarchy has entrenched absolute power within the constitutional framework to neutralize reformist momentum.
Natália Neris and Sami Sternberg, representatives of Pacto pela Democracia, an inaugural participant in DAL’s Democracy Garage, argue that whoever wins the October 25 runoff, Brazil’s democratic pact faces its gravest threat since the 1988 Constitution was enacted.
