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.
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.
Congratulations are extended to the 2025–26 student honorees from Fukuoka Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Kagoshima City, Kawasaki City, Kobe City, Minamata High School, Oita Prefecture, Tottori Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Research by CDDRL’s Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow Frances Cayton shows how threats to civil society in Poland strengthened the independence and pluralism of groups the regime overlooked.
In his new book, 'Lives in Limbo: Refugee Place-Making and Survival in Malaysia,' Hoffstaedter draws on nearly two decades of research to examine how Chin and Rohingya refugees build communities, find belonging, and navigate legal exclusion.
The health economist joins Clay Farris, who runs the popular podcast Medicaid on the Brain, to discuss how the cuts to Medicaid will impact immigrants and the those who are housing insecure.
