The international relations and comparative politics minor offers students a unique perspective of global issues and key political systems around the world. Our students take unique, exciting courses ...

Zartman's pioneering contributions to conflict management and peacemaking grew directly from his earlier work on Africa. His unique perspective informed his collaborations with academics across Europe ...

One of the biggest challenges for higher education institutions is to make the knowledge they produce transform the lives of people in their communities. This practice, commonly known as university ...

As one looks at the coming year, it is prudent to also speculate on the nature and number of conflicts that the world is most likely to experience. The possibility of a singular war that dominates is ...

Andrew Forde is affiliated with Dublin City University (Assistant Professor, European Human Rights Law). He is also, separately, affiliated with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ...

From 2018 to 2023, U.S.-China relations were in a linear downward spiral. The trade war, the pandemic, growing technology competition, rising tensions in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and ...

The year 2025 saw high levels of deadly violence around the world, as conflicts grew less restrained, with civilians increasingly victims of attacks by governments and non-state actors alike, ...

The Department of Political Science and International Relations currently offers a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) degree, which consists of coursework during the first six semesters followed by ...