American University School of International Service
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American University's School of International Service prepares students to wage peace and build understanding in our world.
🎙️ "Polarization incentivizes other countries to interfere in U.S. elections." SIS professor @jordantama.bsky.social on how domestic #polarization is affecting American elections, foreign policy, and making the U.S. a less reliable partner abroad. Listen now 🔗 https://big-world.captivate.fm/listen
Episode 92: America at 250
SIS professor Jordan Tama on what the founders would think of U.S. foreign policy today, the impacts of polarization, and the withdrawal of soft power.
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SIS professor Gregory Aftandilian spoke to @newsweek.com about what recent comments by Vice President JD Vance reveal about the U.S.'s current relationship with Israel. https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-israel-comments-us-israel-relations-12204946
JD Vance and the Democrats put Netanyahu's Israel on notice
Democrats, Trump and now Vance are breaking from Israel in public. Is the decades-old alliance cracking?
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This summer, Gloria Anane, SIS/MA ’27, is interning at the Embassy of Ghana, with support from the SIS Dean's Internship Fund. Read her reflections on how the role has reshaped her view of diplomacy and her career: https://bit.ly/4yqPBBU 🔗
Interning at the Embassy: Connecting Ghanaians to Their Heritage
For Gloria Anane, working as a consular assistant at the Embassy of Ghana has shown her that diplomacy isn't just about policy--it's also about helping people reconnect with home.
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Join us and other top #gradschools from around the world at APSIA's online graduate school fair! Leading schools of international affairs and public policy will be online to answer your questions. Register for free: bit.ly/apsiajulyfair26
APSIA Online Graduate School Fair I - July 2026
Thinking about Grad School? Searching for an international career in the private, public, or non-governmental sector? Whether you've just started your search or have a shortlist in mind, representa...
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🎙️ “For some countries, China now looks like a more attractive partner than the U.S.” Listen to SIS professor @jordantama.bsky.social on America's retreat from soft power and what it costs us—wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 https://big-world.captivate.fm/listen
Episode 92: America at 250
SIS professor Jordan Tama on what the founders would think of U.S. foreign policy today, the impacts of polarization, and the withdrawal of soft power.
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For @us.theconversation.com: Professor Anthony Wanis-St. John and Federico Manfredi Firmian examine the history of failed ceasefires between Israel and Lebanon and consider whether present negotiations could yield a different result. https://bit.ly/4bkq7fv
Israel and Lebanon Have a History of Failed Ceasefires—Will This Time Be Different?
SIS professor Anthony Wanis-St. John and SIS visiting scholar Federico Manfredi Firmian analyze the history of fragile ceasefires between Israel and Lebanon.
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In a recent essay, SIS professor @jrovner.bsky.social discusses the difference between military strategy and grand strategy, and the danger of mistaking one for the other. Read the full piece: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-bourbon-trap-military-prowess-is-not-a-grand-strategy/
The Bourbon trap: military prowess is not a grand strategy
The United States risks the fate of Bourbon France, whose strategic brilliance in the American War of Independence masked a contradictory grand strategy that led to ruin.
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"How many students get to participate in building an academic discipline?" Lucia Fishel, SIS/MA ’26, reflects on two weeks in Norway helping launch a new field: geopolitical ecology. Read her full reflection: https://bit.ly/4p6kB5L
Student Reflection: Inside SIS's Norway Practicum on Geopolitical Ecology
Lucia Fishel, SIS/MA '26, reflects on helping build a new academic field from the ground up and what two weeks in Norway taught her about how theory and practice shape one another.
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🎙️ “Hard power can't limit climate change. It can't reduce poverty. It can't help manage the rise of AI.” On the eve of America's 250th, SIS professor @jordantama.bsky.social makes the case for why #softpower matters, now more than ever. Listen now 🔗 https://bit.ly/4eFvBSY #America250
Episode 92: America at 250
SIS professor Jordan Tama on what the founders would think of U.S. foreign policy today, the impacts of polarization, and the withdrawal of soft power.
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SIS alumna Patricia McIlreavy, SIS/MA '92, has been named to the 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list for her work at Center for Disaster Philanthropy rethinking disaster giving. Her message: communities don't need saving; they need partners. Read her full profile: https://bit.ly/4oKH6Ny
SIS Alumna Patricia McIlreavy Named to Time100 Philanthropy List for Reimagining Disaster Philanthropy
Patricia McIlreavy, president and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, is pushing the humanitarian sector toward a harder truth: communities don't need saving. They need partners.
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As America readies to mark 250 years this July 4th, SIS professor @jordantama.bsky.social traces U.S. #foreignpolicy from the founders' vision to today and weighs in on what's truly unprecedented about this moment. Listen to Big World, wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 https://bit.ly/4eFvBSY
Episode 92: America at 250
SIS professor Jordan Tama on what the founders would think of U.S. foreign policy today, the impacts of polarization, and the withdrawal of soft power.
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Professor Anthony Wanis-St. John and Visiting Scholar Federico Manfredi Firmian discuss how the Trump administration can still “win the peace" in U.S.-Iran talks. https://democracyofhope.substack.com/p/trump-lost-the-war-four-tasks-to?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=n86aa&triedRedirect=true
Trump Lost the War: Four Tasks to Win the Peace
America lost the war with Iran and then lost the negotiation, and what comes next will determine whether a military blunder becomes a permanent strategic failure.
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What if changes in US policy toward Southeast Asia are not temporary? In a new APLN report, Ambassador (retired) Piper Campbell from @ausis.bsky.social argues that Southeast Asian states should not view President Donald Trump’s administration as “temporary or an aberration.”
In a new @warontherocks.bsky.social, @ausis.bsky.social PhD candidate Lily Wojtowicz examines French President Macron's major nuclear policy shift in service of a broader European security agenda, and how domestic French politics could stand in the way. Read more: warontherocks.com/macrons-nucl...
Macron’s Nuclear Gamble: Building a European Deterrent Faster Than French Politics Can Tear Down
In early March, French President Emmanuel Macron stood at a windswept submarine base on the Breton coast and quietly buried four decades of French nuclear
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Global refugee numbers fell in 2025 for the first time in a decade, but SIS professor Nicholas Micinski and coauthor Kelsey Norman say the real story is a system in freefall: gutted agencies, cuts to aid, and migration deals that undermine human rights. Read more: https://bit.ly/4vYXjkF
Refugee Numbers Dropped in 2025--But Aid Cuts and Other Trends Suggest Little to Celebrate
As World Refugee Day approaches, SIS professor Nicholas Micinski and RICE professor Kelsey Norman argue that a drop in global refugee numbers obscures a far more troubling reality: drastic aid cuts, gutted agencies, and migration deals are leaving the w...
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SIS Sakura Scholar Coralie Arias, SIS/BA ’28, recently had the chance to present recommendations on preventing youth recidivism at the 35th United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Q2d0Zc
SIS Student Presents Recommendations to Prevent Youth Recidivism at United Nations in Vienna
Coralie Arias, SIS/BA ’28, a Sakura Scholar studying in in Japan, presented youth-led recommendations on preventing recidivism to a United Nations commission in Vienna.
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Lauded by PBS as "One of America's Most Prescient Political Thinkers," @fisherdanar.bsky.social is now leading an all-woman team building AI tools to predict extreme weather events and monitor vulnerable communities. Read the full profile: https://bit.ly/3SkMOto
The Architect of Social Change: Dana Fisher on Climate and Activism
The Architect of Social Change: Dana Fisher on Climate and Activism
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Margarita Aswani, SIS/BA ’96, SIS/MA ’98, shares reflections on her international career journey and advice for current SIS students looking to forge a career path abroad. https://bit.ly/4uwFvfF
'Think Outside of America': Reflections on an International Career
Margarita Aswani, SIS/BA ’96, SIS/MA ’98, shares details about her career in international development and her advice for students looking to forge a path abroad.
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Former U.S. ambassador and SIS professor Piper Campbell joined the Dialogues at Fulcrum podcast to discuss how Southeast Asia is navigating the rivalry between the U.S. and China. Listen now: https://fulcrum.sg/southeast-asia-between-the-giants/
Southeast Asia Between the Giants | FULCRUM
Fulcrum editor William Choong talks to Piper Campbell and Joanne Lin about Southeast Asia operating amid rivalry between China and the US. Ambassador Campbell is the Inaugural Chair of the Departme…
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Great to wake up to find that Saving Ourselves is featured on the @nextbigidea.bsky.social Daily Podcast 🤩 Understanding how we can mobilize the masses to save ourselves from a world of increasing climate shocks is key to our survival. Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Join @ausis.bsky.social Professor & @idpp.bsky.social Executive Director @derrickcogburn.bsky.social for the launch of the CRPD data dashboard and mobile app next Tuesday at the UN! Register here, or scan the QR code below, to attend the event remotely: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Two @ausis.bsky.social graduate students joined Research Prof. Rachel Nadelman & a team of international development professionals on a civil society engagement project with the Inter-American Development Bank, taking their research beyond the classroom: www.american.edu/sis/research...
SIS Grad Students Take Research Beyond the Classroom at the Inter-American Development Bank
SIS MA student Maria Ardila Rangel and PhD student Anushka Bose are part of a professional team led by SIS Research Professor Rachel Nadelman working on civil society engagement research for the Inter...
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In a new article for CSIS, Professor Benjamin Jensen explains what U.S. political leaders can learn and embrace from Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which focused on questions surrounding AI and humanity. https://www.csis.org/analysis/vatican-just-outmaneuvered-washington-ai
The Vatican Just Outmaneuvered Washington on AI
The Vatican's AI intervention exposes Washington's blind spot: Policymakers are debating hypothetical doomsday scenarios while missing the real crises already reshaping human dignity, work, truth, and power. Washington must move beyond abstract AGI fear...
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SIS research professor Wil Burns explains how biomass sinking works and analyzes potential concerns about this form of carbon removal in this piece originally published by The Conversation. Read it on our website ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4fODrM6
Deep-Ocean Climate Plans Wins EPA Approval, But is Sinking Plants in the Sea the Answer?
After the Environmental Protection Agency recently granted a permit to a carbon removal startup for ocean biomass sinking, Professor Wil Burns explains how the process works and analyzes potential con...
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Congratulations to @ausis.bsky.social Professor @nina-yamanis.bsky.social who has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Tanzania for her project "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania." www.american.edu/sis/research...
Nina Yamanis Selected as a 2026-27 Fulbright Scholar
Nina Yamanis has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2026-27 for her project "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania...
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How do countries build durable peace? @ausis.bsky.social & @auwcl.bsky.social Prof. Paul Williams' new book explores how peace is negotiated, implemented and sustained in the world’s most challenging conflict zones and features six AU student co-authors. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...
Paul Williams, Building Durable Peace
Paul Williams' new edited volume reflects lessons from some of the most complex peace processes of the past three decades and explores how peace is negotiated, implemented and sustained.
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Former #WorldBank president Robert Zoellick joins Professor Hansong Li on the Worldviews podcast to discuss coexistence amid a shifting geopolitical landscape and whether the vision of major powers as responsible stakeholders still holds promise. https://youtu.be/d6ZDMmqxcJM?si=pAa55tSNOlQfRzVD
Stakeholders of a Fractured World: in Dialogue with Robert Zoellick
In a world of divisions and discontents, does the vision of nation-states like the U.S., China, and others as responsible stakeholders still hold promise? Who still hold stakes? Have the stakes changed? Who else should hold more stakes? How should stake...
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SIS professor and medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth unpacks the @who.int recent emergency declaration over the #Ebola outbreak in the DRC, the rare Bundibugyo strain spreading there, and the state of the global health response in this new Q&A. Read more: https://bit.ly/43uLzKp
What to Know About the Ebola Outbreak
SIS professor Lauren Carruth answers questions about the recent emergency designation from the WHO, the conditions contributing to the current spike of Ebola, and what the global health response looks...
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SIS alum @zamaan.bsky.social of @designitforus.bsky.social joins this latest episode of Big World to break down Gen Z's fight for better regulation surrounding AI and social media. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts 🔗 https://bit.ly/3OKJ0QZ
Episode 91: Gen Z vs. Big Tech
In this episode of Big World, SIS alumnus and tech accountability advocate Zamaan Qureshi joins us to discuss the impact of AI and social media on teen mental health, the push for stronger regulation,...
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After President Trump’s two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, SIS professor Yan Bennett provides three big takeaways from the meeting between the two leaders in this piece originally published by @us.theconversation.com. https://bit.ly/4vha6yJ
Trump-Xi Summit: Cautious Progress on Trade, Ties, and Some 'Win-Wins'
Professor Yan Bennett provides major takeaways from President Donald Trump's two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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