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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taking Territory: the Persistence of Conquest since 1945. Cornell University Press is publishing our former Rosenwald postdoc Dan Altman, now Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. zurl.co/8HSOG #dartmouthdavidson

Stephen Brooks and Luis Simón argue in Foreign Affairs that Europe should expand its conventional military capabilities while continuing to rely on U.S. support systems such as intelligence, logistics and cyber capabilities. zurl.co/RGgX7 #dartmouthdavidson

SecDef Pete Hegseth recently promoted a proposed $1.5 TRILLION defense budget. In her latest column, Elizabeth Shackelford argues that it is indefensible generally speaking and particularly dangerous in the hands of the current warmongering administration. zurl.co/0DTH7

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa had a message for Dickey Center fellows and scholars: know who you are, know your line between right and wrong, and know that you will be tested on it. zurl.co/MpwcI #learnfromthebest #greatissues #dartmouth

Mental health for health workers is a global crisis. We recently convened researchers, clinicians, and data scientists to talk about what technology can actually do about it. Watch here: zurl.co/u5yLU #dartmouth #healthworkermentalhealth

Marisol Maddox briefed the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Climate Crossroads Congressional Fellowship on "The Arctic Intersection of Environmental Change and National Security" during the program’s session on national security and military preparedness.

Our War & Peace Fellows had lunch w Dmitri Alperovitch, one of the most consequential figures in American cybersecurity. For students thinking about careers at the intersection of technology, policy, & national security, it doesn't get more relevant than this. #dartmouthdavidson #cybersecurity

ICYMI: Last week's conversation with David Sanger was exactly what the Dickey Center strives for — the kind of exchange that leaves you thinking long after it's over. Missed it? Watch it. zurl.co/XSNZY

Shout-out to three remarkable Dartmouth students; great to see our Great Issues Scholar alumni Jackson and Will honored for their work, and a real pleasure to have Jackson back at the Dickey Center as a Global Health Fellow. zurl.co/GJM4H

The biggest threat of AI is that the bulk of the powerful technology is uniquely within the control of a small cohort of ultra-wealthy men, argues Elizabeth Shackelford in her latest for the Chicago Tribune. zurl.co/bJryc

On his International Security podcast, Jeff Friedman sits down with Prof. Ron Krebs of U of MN to explore why right-wing populist leaders love soldiers (especially fallen ones) and the trappings of military life, but their love affair with the military rarely endures. zurl.co/RsN8N #intsec

Steven Simon, Distinguished visiting fellow with the Davidson Institute, writes an op ed in the OrissaPost on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mismanagement of Israel's relationship with the United States has exacerbated pressure on American Jews. zurl.co/ezvqo #dartmouthdavidson

ICYMI: Kim Ghattas in a wide-ranging conversation on war, diplomacy, and US policy in the Middle East with Dickey Center Director Victoria Holt. Kim brought a rare combination of on-the-ground journalism, deep historical knowledge, and lived experience in the region — and it showed. zurl.co/FXTSI

Faculty at #Dartmouth are contributing to climate science at the most consequential levels. Thayer's Erin Mayfield and Hélène Seroussi joined Melody Brown Burkins of Env Studies to bring their scholarship to a wide-ranging conversation on the real-world reach of academic research. zurl.co/ymIXi

The Institute of Arctic Studies hosted 6th-graders from Lebanon Middle School, giving them a taste of life, research, and education at the college. Geologist, scientist, and educator Derek Burkins talked about glaciers, gave a glacier physics demonstration, and led a hands-on activity.

"The resounding defeat of Viktor Orban was welcome news in bleak times, and it is well worth paying attention to how the opposition defeated him." Elizabeth Shackelford explores Hungary's lessons for democracy under fire in her latest piece in the Chicago Tribune. zurl.co/z2JIb

Lauren Culler, Senior Fellow for Climate & Environment with the Institute of Arctic Studies, co-authors an article in Science on the arrival of mosquitoes in Iceland, signal of accelerating ecological change in the Arctic . zurl.co/yBMpL #arctic #climatechange #dartmouth

Our visiting scholar Kim Ghattas talked Lebanon ceasefire with PBS. zurl.co/zAi9j

We were thrilled to join Geisel's MPH students in celebrating National Public Health Week in style with a 5K fun run! zurl.co/NLvn0 #nphw #publichealth (📷Rob Strong)

We were thrilled to join the Dartmouth Political Union in welcoming former Secretaries of State John Kerry and Mike Pompeo to Dartmouth for a debate on Iran, climate change and other topics. zurl.co/V7BQ6

Exploring the division among Republicans over the war on Iran, USA Today's Zac Anderson quotes Government Professor Jeff Friedman. Young voters grew up with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, says Friedman, "really cast a pall over public attitudes towards military force.” zurl.co/OQPDU

Journalist Kim Ghattas, currently a visiting professor with us at Dartmouth, talks Iran with NPR's Scott Simon. zurl.co/oGtbF Join us in person or online for Ghattas' talk on April 23, "War in the Middle East - Stakes and Outcomes." zurl.co/rq0tE or link in our bio.

The Dartmouth's Sahil Gandhi sits down with Matthew Druckenmiller of the Institute of Arctic Studies, newly elected president of the International Arctic Science Committee. zurl.co/thzze #arctic #dartmouth

On their spring break trip to Washington, D.C., our War & Peace Fellows got a behind-the-scenes look at the machinery of American foreign policy, spanning the halls of the Pentagon to the galleries of the Canadian Embassy. zurl.co/0ptNM #dartmouthdavidson #experientiallearning

Dawn Carey sat down with Eleanor Oden '28 and Taanvi Gowdar '28 on an episode of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science's 'Ask A Scientist' to talk global health work, its ethical challenges, and how individuals can contribute to global efforts today. zurl.co/CM73k #globalhealth #dartmouth

Join us online Monday at 5PM when we team up with the Dartmouth Political Union to welcome John Kerry and Mike Pompeo for a conversation about the future of U.S. foreign policy. zurl.co/cuI2q #dartmouth #dartmouthdavidson

We were thrilled to host Dr. Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow at Stanford University. He took our our War & Peace Fellows on a deep dive into U.S.-China systemic competition and the complex intersection of technology, industrial deterrence, and the future of international peace. #dartmouthdavidson

Ten Dartmouth Global Health Fellows traveled through Peru on an immersion trip bridging the gap between classroom theory and real-world application. An experienced that fundamentally shifted the students' perspectives on development and community-led change. zurl.co/bFKEv

The Iran War Is Exposing Iraq’s Weaknesses, argues Davidson Institute visiting fellow Steven Simon in Foreign Affairs. "Iraq is being pulled into the war militarily even though its government says it is not a party to the conflict," he says. zurl.co/QmC6H #dartmouthdavidson #iran #iraq

We're celebrating Dartmouth senior Quinn Allred '26, recently named John Robert Lewis Scholar. Involved with the Dickey Center since his freshman year, he's been a Great Issues Scholar, War & Peace Fellow and Lombard Fellow. We can't wait to see what he accomplishes next. zurl.co/CKp6E

"Not only has the Trump administration failed to condemn Russia's support to Iran, but it also even eased sanctions on Russian oil, giving Putin a windfall at a time when economic pressure was starting to pinch," writes Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune. zurl.co/yCtTa #russia #iran

Semafor's Andy Browne quotes Daryl Press on broader Asia consequences of the US war on Iran: Taiwan leaders ought to be 'quaking in their boots' after watching the success with which the US and Israel have taken out the Iranian leadership. zurl.co/CHsY5 #dartmouthdavidson #iran #taiwan #china