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.
Banned from political office but unbowed, the Thai pro-democracy leader revisited Stanford to analyze the recent electoral defeat of his progressive party, weigh in on regional tensions in Southeast Asia and Thailand’s geopolitical balancing act, and consider the prospects for the country’s future and his political comeback.
Congratulations to Abbas Milani, one of five recipients of Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award, the university’s highest award for excellence in teaching. It recognizes faculty, teaching staff, and students who have made special contributions to teaching, including lecturing, tutoring, advising, and discussion leading.
CDDRL graduating senior Anagali Duncan, 2026 Dinkelspiel Award winner, is among ten members of the campus community recognized for excellence in teaching, service, and academics.
National community forums in the U.S. and India highlight differences in preferences for privacy, user control, and governance of emerging technologies.
Political scientist Gaea Morales, APARC’s 2025-26 Shorenstein postdoctoral fellow on contemporary Asia, studies questions at the nexus of global policy and local action and how Southeast Asian megacities build climate resilience by drawing on local knowledge and global networks to drive change from the ground up, even in the absence of central government support.
The veteran Haaretz intelligence correspondent argues that Israel's spy agencies keep winning the battle and losing the war, from a botched Iran regime-change plot to the warnings that went unheeded before October 7th.
The Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions and Stanford University Libraries welcomed Professor Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago) for the 2026 Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh Memorial Lecture on the risks of Taiwan's economic boom.
A Democracy Action Lab fieldwork mission to Lima and Cusco around Peru's first-round 2026 election finds a democracy whose deepest fractures predate the ballot.
Teren Sevea, APARC’s Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Southeast Asia, reveals how overlooked histories and everyday ethics in Southeast Asia can reshape our understanding of the past and our responsibility for the future.
Three founders of the movement that halted Israel's 2023 judicial overhaul explain how they organized hundreds of thousands of protesters without a single leader.
In a discussion convened by the Program on Arab Reform and Development, Stanford scholars situate regional upheaval within longer trajectories of imperial intervention, authoritarian rule, and global political shifts.
Professor Emeritus Larry Becker reflects on the early years of SPICE’s Africa Project and how his experience with SPICE enriched and informed his academic journey and teaching practice.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel argues that Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran all hinge on the same unresolved question, even as Israel's coming election turns on issues closer to home.
Matthew Levitt unpacks proxy warfare, shifting narratives, and the uneasy future of U.S.–Israel relations in a conversation hosted by the Jan Koum Israel Studies Program.
