USC Dornsife News

For 25 years, the Center for Active Learning in International Studies at USC Dornsife has taught local high schoolers how to examine the forces shaping global events.

USC Dornsife scholars with deep knowledge of the embattled region, including one who experienced bombing in Kyiv this summer, spell out the long-term effects of the conflict and how they would advise Putin and Zelenskyy.

Negotiations are possible between the US and Iran, but they will neither be easy nor likely to produce more than limited outcomes.

Nonproliferation experts believe Iraq’s nuclear program went underground after Israel destroyed its reactor just outside Baghdad.

Why is President Trump likely interested in the island nation? International relations professor Steve Lamy explains.

The Los Angeles fires may be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. A USC expert on safety, risk reduction and complex systems calls for a blue-ribbon commission to analyze their causes.

A USC Dornsife Maymester course offers undergrads an chance to engage with human rights activists, politicians and diplomats in one of the world’s least studied, most fraught regions.

The US put a pause on an arms shipment to Israel as it launched a Rafah offensive. This is not the first time the US and Israel have publicly disagreed, despite their strong diplomatic relationship.

Conflict has escalated between Joe Biden and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over the conduct of the Israel-Hamas war. But a national security veteran says the US has little leverage over Israel.