Douglas Irwin, professor of economics, on Bloomberg discussing the Trump administration's latest tariffs. "zurl.co/guzUv #dartmouthdavidson

Our War & Peace Fellows sat down with Mallory Stewart, for a wide-ranging discussion spanning deterrence, defense spending, and international law, as well as emerging global security challenges from Iran's nuclear program to space security and ballistic missile defense.

Stephen G. Brooks, professor of government, and Ben Vagle '22, argue in Foreign Affairs that the United States retains significant economic leverage over China despite recent trade tensions. zurl.co/egaGe #dartmouthdavidson #china #foreignaffairs

America Still Has the Upper Hand Over China

Washington can win if it works with allies.

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Calling the administration's reliance on force "embarrassing, wasteful & harmful," Elizabeth Shackelford argues that military actions in Iran, Cuba, & the Caribbean have inflicted civilian suffering while failing to advance U.S. national security objectives. zurl.co/EsQJJ #dartmouth #cuba #iran

Former Rosenwald postdoc Eun A Jo, now at William & Mary, joined Jessica Chen Weiss of Johns Hopkins and host Jeff Friedman on the International Security podcast to talk ideological differences in great power relations, and how the Cold War fails as an analogy for US-China relations. zurl.co/unVST

Explore graduate school options in international affairs, public policy, diplomacy, and political science, from the comfort of your screen! zurl.co/1ZYiF #dartmouth #dartmouthdavidson #intsec

Foreign Affairs Summer Virtual Graduate School Fair: 2026

Foreign Affairs Summer Virtual Graduate School Fair: 2026 - Event Landing Page

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Econ professor Douglas Irwin on how President Donald Trump’s second-term tariffs differ from U.S. trade policy over the past 250 years. “Definitely a break from the past,” he concludes. zurl.co/VaqZF #dartmouthdavidson

Did Trump’s tariffs paint the US into an economic corner?

The US and China have secured a fragile truce, but analysts warn Washington’s protectionist pivot marks a structural shift likely to last.

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Ryan Goldstein '93 — Dickey Center Board of Visitors member, founder of our Goldstein Internship in Japan — is featured in Dartmouth's alumni magazine. A longtime champion of Dartmouth student opportunities in Japan, Goldstein is now endowing a new Asian Studies fund at the college. zurl.co/iGaq4

Saying Thanks for a Professor Who Changed His Life | Dartmouth Alumni & Families

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Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune: Climate Change's Heat Is Baking Us to Death. We Must Act. zurl.co/1VATo

Elizabeth Shackelford: Climate change’s heat is baking us to death. We must act.

It isn’t just the U.S. Heat waves have rocked Europe, but these inconveniences to most are nothing compared to what lies ahead if we don’t change course.

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In the Hoover Institution's Freedom Frequency, Professor of Economics Doug Irwin writes that the principle of most favored nation should not be abandoned casually, warning that discriminatory trade policies risk reducing efficiency and weakening international goodwill. zurl.co/Olssb

"A less militarized version of internationalism offers a better alternative to the near-constant warmaking that has become the norm in U.S. foreign policy." Government Professor Jennifer Lind in her birthday wish to America on the Blueblaze substack. zurl.co/l5rLa

Derek Thompson of the Atlantic sits down with our Rosenwald postdoc alumni Erik Lin-Greenberg, now at MIT, to talk about the future of war and the role of drones. zurl.co/xE3C5 #dartmouthdavidson

A Surprising Theory About the Future of War

Listen to this episode from Plain English with Derek Thompson on Spotify. From the bombing campaigns of World War II to the precision strikes of the modern era, for 80 years air power has defined modern warfare. But today, a new technology is changing the battlefield: drones. From Ukraine to the Middle East, cheap drones are transforming how wars are fought, giving countries and even small groups capabilities that once belonged only to the world's most powerful militaries. They’re changing not just how wars are fought, but who can fight them. Today, Derek is joined by Erik Lin-Greenberg, an MIT professor and author of 'The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft,' to explore how drones are reshaping modern warfare and what this new era could mean for the future of conflict. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here:https://www.youtube.com/@PlainEnglishwithDerekThompson If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Erik Lin-Greenberg Producer: Devon Baroldi Additional Production Support: Ben Glicksman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Congratulations to Jeffrey Friedman on his promotion to Professor of Government at Dartmouth! An outstanding political scientist, he directs the Rosenwald Postdocs at the Davidson Institute — a program he knows from the inside, having been a Rosenwald Fellow himself in 2012. zurl.co/bSrun

The Dickey Center mourns the loss of Chris Wren '57, who served on our Board of Visitors from 1985 thru 2008, and brought a foreign correspondent's hard-won perspective on global affairs to that work. The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine's article captures Wren's remarkable career.zurl.co/SJGqI

In Harm’s Way: A Foreign Correspondent’s Story

Christopher Wren ’57 had spent less than a year as a metropolitan reporter at The New York Times in 1973 when editors started asking around the newsroom, “Does anyone speak Russian?”

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Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune: Civil servants should refuse to implement cruel policies, even if it costs them. Author of “The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age,” our distinguished lecturer knows whereof she speaks... zurl.co/i14dW

Elizabeth Shackelford: Civil servants should refuse to implement cruel policies, even if it costs them

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants to African countries with travel advisories. Civil servants must resist.

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On the Blue Blaze substack, Dartmouth's Jennifer Lind is joined by Brown U Econ Professor Mark Blyth to explore US domestic policy and geopolitics of the green transition. zurl.co/X2jam #dartmouthdavidson #geopolitics #climatechange

Burning Down the House

The US domestic politics and geopolitics of the green transition: an interview with Mark Blyth

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The Institute of Arctic studies is thrilled to announce Zoe Johnson, recently graduated Dartmouth environmental studies and biology major, as recipient of the inaugural Ross Virginia Polar Legacy Internship Award. zurl.co/Fmv6U

Zoe Johnson '26 Receives Ross Virginia Polar Legacy Internship Award - Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth

The Institute of Arctic Studies is pleased to announce Zoe Johnson '26 as the inaugural recipient of the Ross Virginia Polar Legacy Internship Award.

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In an opinion piece in Foreign Affairs, Tuck School of Business Dean Matthew Slaughter and James Davidson, the lead donor of the Davidson Institute for Global Security, argue that AI-driven job displacement poses a political risk exceeding the “China shock” of the early 21st century. zurl.co/FCvDP

How to Survive the AI Shock

A policy playbook to avert political crisis.

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Writing in Foreign Affairs, Daryl Press and Jennifer Lind explore what happens if the U.S. fails to reform its decaying deterrence strategy. Vulnerable nations may soon rush to develop their own nuclear arsenals, they argue, with dangerous consequences. zurl.co/dTVo1 #dartmouthdavidson

The Broken Nuclear Umbrella

What comes after extended deterrence.

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As our inaugural Lola Fellow, Abbey Savin ’24 is completing a year in Nepal moving from the world of global health policy into the realities of maternal health program implementation with One Heart Worldwide’s Monitoring and Evaluation team. zurl.co/rTW0E #globalhealth #dartmouth

On the BlueBlaze Substack, Professor Jennifer Lind discusses 'The Military Tech Nexus and the Sources of Great Power Dominance.' with Seth Jones, president of the Defense and Security Department and the Harold Brown Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. zurl.co/EH74r

Seth Jones's The American Edge

The Military Tech Nexus and the Sources of Great Power Dominance

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Nathan Grau, a Postdoctoral Fellow in US Foreign Policy and Int'l Sec at the Davidson Institute, has been awarded the 2026 Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. zurl.co/T6H0n #dartmouthdavidson

Nathan Grau Wins SHAFR's Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize - Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth

Nathan Grau, a Postdoctoral Fellow in US Foreign Policy and International Security at the Davidson Institute for Global Security, has been awarded the 2026 Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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In her latest piece for the Chicago Tribune, Elizabeth Shackelford notes how Ukraine’s cheap drones and combat robots offer hope for the good guys.  zurl.co/L3bpX

Elizabeth Shackelford: Ukraine’s cheap drones and combat robots offer hope for the good guys

Ukrainian professionals who once worked in finance, IT and construction have turned their civilian capabilities to military means.

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The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support. Writing for the Quincy Institute, Steven Simon explores the consequences of Israel's plan to phase out direct U.S. military aid. zurl.co/tVsLF #dartmouthdavidson

The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support

Israeli officials have said they want to phase out US military grant aid — a position that sounds like a step toward ending US military assistance to Israel. It is not. 

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Research co-authored by Yusaku Horiuchi and Rosenwald postdoc alum Kelly Matush in International Studies Quarterly finds that presidential travel abroad has divergent effects: foreign publics view the visiting leader more favorably, while approval at home tends to fall. zurl.co/7epwT

Jeff Kerby, Non-Resident Senior Arctic Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Studies, has been awarded a 2026 Neukom Institute CompX Faculty Grant in collaboration with Bob Hawley for their EPOCHS (Extended Polar Open-source Computer vision for Habitat Surveys) project. zurl.co/kR773 (📷Jeff Kerby)

Proud to announce this year's Bosworth Award recipients! Awarded to Dartmouth students who have shown outstanding commitment to international understanding through their work at the Dickey Center, this year's recipients are: McLaine Leik '27, Najma Bore '27, Ben Joel '27, and Allison Nathan '27.

Cuts to foreign aid and global health programs have left the U.S. and its partners less prepared to respond to Ebola outbreaks, argues Elizabeth Shackelford in her latest opinion piece for the Chicago Tribune. zurl.co/0CkZZ #globalhealth #ebola

Elizabeth Shackelford: I witnessed our Ebola response in 2014. We are now seeing the costs of US aid withdrawal

The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the WHO and its cuts to foreign aid have put us and the world at far greater risk during this latest Ebola outbreak.

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Geoeconomics: What’s the Cost of Coercion in Global Trade? Economics professor Douglas Irwin on the Boston Fed's podcast exploring how economic coercion tactics may reduce trust and cooperation among nations – and have critical impacts on global trade. zurl.co/7UQ2R #dartmouthdavidson

The Global Arctic: Unprecedented Change, Global Stakes. An S7 Statement by The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, represented by Institute of Arctic Studies Director Melody Brown Burkins, and their G7 science academy colleagues. zurl.co/QA37F