International programs and activities may be found in all of the schools of the University. For a comprehensive directory, please visit the Yale and the World website, which highlights a selection of programs that might be of particular interest.
The World Fellows Program
Each year, the World Fellows Program brings to Yale University 16 to 18 highly accomplished men and women from a diverse set of countries around the world. The Program offers a group of emerging leaders the opportunity to broaden their knowledge, gain new perspectives, sharpen their skills, and build the networks of relationships needed to meet the demands of issues on the local, national, and global scales.
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization supports teaching and research on globalization, helps to enrich debate on the subject through workshops, conferences, and lectures, and responds quickly to important events by organizing timely public programs that bring together individuals from the University community with individuals active in the policy arena. The Center also serves the community by inviting key leaders in international affairs to come to Yale to present major public addresses.
The Globalization and Self-Determination Project
The Globalization and Self-Determination Project studies the ways in which globalization, understood as the international integration of markets for goods, services, and capital, poses fundamental threats to self-determination. The first concerns the unleashing of powerful forces that threaten national sovereignty from “outside” the nation states. The second globalization threat to self-determination concerns attacks on existing political boundaries from “inside” the nation state—the ability of self-defined groups and their members to choose autonomously how to govern themselves.
The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) is the University’s principal agency for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world. YCIAS seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the U.S., and America’s role in the world, an integral part of the liberal education and professional training at Yale University.
International Security Studies at Yale University
International Security Studies at Yale University (ISS) is a center for teaching and research in grand strategy and international, diplomatic, and military history. ISS is supervised by an international Advisory Board composed of eminent scholars, business leaders, and journalists. ISS incorporates United Nations Studies at Yale, a policy-relevant “think-tank” on key issues concerning the future of the UN. ISS provides a forum for students to engage in active debate with established scholars, as well as extensive fellowship support to aid them in their research.
European Union Studies
The Yale Program in European Union Studies is devoted to furthering the knowledge of students, faculty, and other members of the Yale community about the European Union. It seeks to promote greater knowledge about, and understanding of, the EU; particular attention is devoted to past, current, and future transatlantic relations between the United States and the European Union.
The Genocide Studies Program
The Genocide Studies Program (GSP) at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies conducts research, seminars, and conferences on comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy issues relating to the phenomenon of genocide and provides training to researchers from afflicted regions. The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School is a sponsor of the GSP.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, a part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. It seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slavery resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world.
The Program on Nonprofit Organizations at Yale University
The Program on Nonprofit Organizations (PONPO) exists to foster interdisciplinary research aimed at developing an understanding of international nongovernmental organizations and the not-for-profit sector in developing countries and their role in economic and political life. PONPO studies foreign and international nongovernmental organizations from many different perspectives.