International Policy Center

Former Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun and Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis, discuss the state of relations between the United States and Russia. 

This paper links Africa’s history to its HIV epidemic through colonial institutions’ lasting effects on marriage markets.

The official start of the school year, welcome week and orientation activities at the Ford School give new master's students the opportunity to meet and engage with peers, faculty, and staff, and begin the process of preparing for the academic year.

How can the U.S. avoid a repeat of the 1975 Indochina withdrawal, which contributed to the rise of Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer Rouge regime? This event is organized with the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Donia Human Rights Center.

The speaker will discuss the effect of raising the level and the transparency of financial incentives offered to local agents for acquiring clients of a new banking product on take-up.

Join us to discuss the political challenges and opportunities associated with siting and building renewable energy projects in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Speakers propose a new theory detailing how disciplined, mechanized forces’ increased personal protection affords them decision space to apply greater restraint in tactical engagements.

IEDP presents a conversation with Dr. Roselyne Akombe, Governance and Peacebuilding Regional Coordinator at UNDP's Regional Service Centre for Africa.

Applications for Diplomacy Lab can now be submitted for Fall 2021 semester. 

Study of how Brazilian municipal governments affect the market structure of illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

During this workshop, students will each take on the role of a key stakeholder and participate in a community deliberation activity.

Join us for a conversation with leading scholars of urban climate governance. Find out what some of the largest North American cities have been doing to address climate change.

Promotion incentives in the public sector by means of a field experiment with the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone.

A growing literature associates poverty with anomalies in decision-making. Researchers investigate this link in a sample of over 3,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items for alternative items of similar value.

Effects of a policy that distributed large cash grants through school councils to public schools in rural Pakistan.

Join us for a conversation about what the Canadian, United States, and Mexican public thinks about climate change, and about how government policy should address it.

Join IEDP for a conversation with Nanjala Nyabola and Shobita Parthasarathy, as they discuss the implications of our digital era on politics and policy in Kenya.  

During this workshop, students will explore how the U.S. and European partners can work more closely to give Central and Southern European countries greater opportunities for growth and investment and provide a stable, resilient basis for the regions’ long-term development.

Graduate students from more than 80 universities around Americas, Middle East, Africa and Europe will address pandemic in virtual NASPAA-Batten student simulation competition developed by the Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming. 

Join leading scholars to discuss the politics associated with oil and gas pipeline construction in Canada and the United States.

Following opening remarks by President Mark Schlissel, U.N. Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe and U-M Provost Susan M. Collins will kick off U-M Africa Week with a fireside chat.

Join IEDP for a discussion with Kwame Owino, CEO of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), about the Kenyan policy landscape and where the region is going.

The International Policy Center invites you to sign up for a virtual seminar with visiting scholar, Dr. James Siekmeier.

Please join us for a virtual seminar on the Freedom of Information Act featuring IPC Visiting Scholar, Dr. James Siekmeier.

This workshop will have students analyze the role that international NGOs can play in raising awareness of, and advocating for, increased government transparency in Ukraine.

This event will feature Dr. Vivian S. Walker, Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, in conversation with Professor John Ciorciari, Director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center at the University of Michigan, with a welcome address by Rejaul Karim Laskar, representing the Global Forum for Scholars & Practitioners of Diplomacy. 

Please join us for a virtual seminar featuring panelists Pavin Chachavalpongpun, John Ciorciari, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui.

This paper examines the potential for migration to respond to place-based policies.