Yale has joined 16 other universities and colleges in filing an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in a case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals addressing the legality of the September 2017 action of the Department of Homeland Security rescinding...
The United States has spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan on economic interventions, such as job-training programs and direct cash payments, to counter violent extremism, but a new study casts doubt on the ability of these initiatives to reduce...
A planned trip this summer to Cape Town, South Africa, will mark the first time in the Yale Alumni Service Corps’ (YASC) decade-long history that Yale faculty have accompanied the volunteers to a program in Africa. It’s an important milestone, says Joao...
Saskia Keeley, a renowned Swiss photographer, will visit Yale on Sunday, April 22 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Keeley will speak as a member of a panel that will address the topic “Shifting Attitudes Surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”...
China’s reemergence as a global power has coincided with policies, including urbanization measures and family planning initiatives, that sometimes pit the Chinese state’s interests against those of individual citizens.
Daniel Mattingly, assistant...
The Russian Studies Program at Yale will host a conference titled “Regime Evolution, Institutional Change, and Social Transformation in Russia: Lessons for Political Science” on Friday-Saturday, April 27-28.
The conference will feature Russian, European,...
One week after the U.S. launched strikes in Syria, experts weighed in on the role of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East during Yale’s inaugural Arab conference, “Amalna: Paving the Road Ahead.”
Nancy Youssef, national security correspondent for The Wall...