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Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani, founding director of Stanford’s Iranian Studies Program, discusses how the most recent protests sweeping cities and villages across Iran are part of an enduring fight to advance women’s rights and equality. Across Iran, protests have…
Course Innovation Awards support the development of new courses that focus on substantive topics of regional or global interest. Since 2016, Stanford Global Studies has funded more than 20 internationally-focused courses across a wide range of…

Encina Commons is home to the Stanford Global Studies Division.

The U.S. Department of Education has selected four Stanford Global Studies (SGS) centers as Title VI National Resource Centers (NRC), which collaborate on programs to broaden opportunities for instruction and research on critical global issues,…

Oriana Skylar Mastro’s scholarship examines Chinese military and security policy in the Asia Pacific region. (Image credit: Courtesy FSI)

In this explainer, Stanford scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro offers a brief history of the China and Taiwan dispute, the evolution of U.S. diplomacy in the region, and what signal Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit sends. As China carries out military…