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The emerging scholar has joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as an assistant professor of political science and global affairs. By pairing satellite imagery with fieldwork in Uganda and Ghana, he traces how corruption shapes state-building in rural Africa.

In this student perspectives piece, Global Affairs major Jad Abdel Nour ‘28 reflects on hosting the author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria — and collaborating with Yale Jackson students and faculty.

The political scientist's study of how churches across sub-Saharan Africa are defending liberal democracy earned the Hubert Morken Best Book Award and Yale's Gustav Ranis International Book Prize.

New Hampshire congresswoman Maggie Goodlander and Yale law professor Amy Chua discussed foreign policy challenges, economic policy, and reshaping U.S. government.

Smith, a senior fellow at the Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment, argues that NATO's incident-by-incident response to sabotage and other attacks across Europe falls short of deterrence.

A political economist who studies how electoral rules shape real-world outcomes joins Yale Jackson as an associate professor of political science and global affairs.

Hakan Altinay went through the World Fellows program in 2009, then spent years trying to work out exactly why it had worked. He now runs a school in Istanbul built on what he found. Free of charge, small, gentle, and designed above all to produce the one thing he thinks our societies are running short of.

In his new book, the Yale political scientist examines how missed opportunities, neoliberal economic policies, and decisions by political leaders shaped today's global challenges — and outlines steps to help reverse them.

This year's cohort of World Fellows includes a Ukrainian journalist, a Chinese environmentalist, and a Kenyan orchestral conductor.

What does it take to rebuild a society fractured by distrust, populism, and eroding civic bonds? In his third Yale Conversations lecture, author and columnist David Brooks traces the shifting cultural paradigms of the past 70 years to diagnose how America arrived at its current crisis.