SFS Stories
Faculty
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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.
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Five questions about India’s R&D tax credit
SFS Professor Rubina Verma explains her research on how India’s R&D tax credit affects national innovation and why it matters for the global economy.
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Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Five questions for Melinda González about the impact
In a winter awash with heightened emotion over immigration in the United States—including the shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by U.S. federal agents and arrests by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) reaching almost 400,000 immigrants in the first year of the Trump Administration—Puerto Rican pop star Bad Bunny took to the Super
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Five questions about domestic terrorism and the violence in Minneapolis
In January 2026, two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were shot by U.S. federal agents in Minneapolis as part of local protests against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In describing the circumstances surrounding their deaths, Trump Administration officials used the term “domestic terrorism.” What defines “domestic terrorism” under
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The Future of Development Work: Learn the lessons of the past, and move forward with hope
In the ongoing Future of Development Work series, Sara Batmanglich expresses the view that although the development sector will continue to exist, lessons from the past must inform what comes next.
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Science Politics communicates science, tech and policy to a broad audience
Science Politics, a new STIA publication, blends academic rigor with journalistic storytelling to reach scholars, policymakers and the general public.