SFS Stories
Faculty
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Five questions about new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham
On Monday, July 20, 2026, Andy Burnham became the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. He took over the government from Keir Starmer as the seventh prime minister in the decade since the June 2016 Brexit vote.
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John Louis Esposito (1940-2026)
We mourn John L. Esposito (1940–2026), renowned scholar of religion and founding director of ACMCU and The Bridge Initiative.
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Bridging Theory and Practice: Celebrating Professor John Gordon’s 20 Years at SSP
For two decades, Professor John Gordon IV has brought to Georgetown’s Security Studies Program (SSP) a rare combination of operational experience and rigorous analytical scholarship.
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Looking ahead to the future of CCAS
As the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) marks its 50th anniversary, members of the center’s faculty reflect on the ideas that have shaped CCAS since 1975—and the work still ahead.
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Understanding a Neo-Royalist world with Professor Abraham Newman
SFS Professor Abraham Newman explains “neo-royalism,” where powerful individuals shape global decisions for a small elite group.
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Does U.S. public opinion support President Trump on the war in Iran?
Scholars have spent decades trying to answer a deceptively simple question: what explains Americans’ willingness to support the use of military force? Each year, in my War and Public Opinion seminar, students test those theories against historical and comparative cases and against the realities of international politics in almost real time. What theory offers is…
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Six questions on the war’s impacts on Iran’s women and girls
Ambassador Melanne Verveer answers questions about the impacts of the war in Iran on Iran’s women and girls.
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As war enters second month, what are implications for Iran, the region and U.S. relations with allies?
Several SFS experts, each of whom looks at the war in Iran through a slightly different lens, answer questions about what is going on and what the immediate future might hold.
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Faculty reflect on 50 years of academic life at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
“I’ve been in CCAS for over 20 years and the thing I’m most proud of is how we build community among our students, staff, faculty and followers to welcome difference, learn broadly and in depth and support each other,” says Professor Rochelle Davis, Sultanate of Oman Chair and associate professor in the School of Foreign…
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Maps with Mark | Ep. 4 Private Sector Foreign Policy
SFS Professor Mark Giordano explains how shifting map representations reflect the private sector’s growing influence on foreign policy.