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Ford School names 2026 Weiser Diplomacy Fellows

Oct 13, 2026
The Ford School is pleased to announce the 2026 cohort of Weiser Diplomacy Fellows: Tariq Fanek (MPA ‘27), Hayley Jewett (MPP ‘28), Anastasiya Miknovets (MPP ‘28), Adna Mohamed (MPP ‘28), and Saumya Nagar (MPP/MBA ‘29).
Five smiling people shown in individual side-by-side headshots; three wear professional suits, one wears a red hijab, and one wears a brown jacket.
State & Hill

Spotlights, spring 2026

May 7, 2026
Over spring break, annual policy study trips took undergrads to Brussels for the BA Global Engagement Seminar (above) and graduate students to Colombia for the International Policy in Practice seminar (below).
A group of undergraduate students holding a Ford School flag at the European Parliament
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What really wins wars? Atran weighs in

Apr 30, 2026
In a recent opinion essay, anthropologist Scott Atran argues that the decisive factor is often not superior firepower, but the presence of “devoted actors,” people whose personal identity is fused with a group’s collective identity and anchored in no...
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Power beyond realpolitik

Mar 4, 2026
While international affairs are often reduced to contests of strength and strategic interests, anthropologist Scott Atran’s recent Quillette contribution challenges this assumption, arguing that moral culture and shared values are the true foundation...
Scott Atran
In the Media

Ali notes that U.S. Venezuela policy risks Iraq replay

Jan 6, 2026 The National News Desk
Javed Ali says that as the Trump administration works on its Venezuela policy, it is thinking through all the options that are on the table, "and the last one I would think they want to do is to do a replay of Iraq in 2003."
Headshot of Javed Ali at Weill Hall's main staircase, looking off to the side of the frame
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U.S. capture of Venezuelan president: U-M experts can discuss

Jan 5, 2026
Experts from the University of Michigan are available to share insights on U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the weekend arrest of its president, Nicolas Maduro, during a raid. Maduro is expected to appear before a judge in New York on Monday to fac...
Headshots of Javed Ali and Jonathan Hanson.
In the Media

"Netanyahu backed himself into a corner" - Ali

Aug 9, 2025 The National News Desk
“If the Arab governments do not come together in a way that Netanyahu described, Israel is going to be stuck, and that is probably not what Netanyahu wants, but he's backed himself into a corner on that,” said Javed Ali, a former counterterrorism off...
Headshot of Javed Ali at Weill Hall's 4th floor Whitman Lounge
In the Media

Ali says Syria plays a key role in Trump middle east peace plans

Jul 7, 2025 Fox News
Javed Ali, former senior official at the National Security Council and professor at the University of Michigan, told Fox News Digital, "It’s a strategic calculation. A Syria that no longer hosts Iranian proxies, cooperates on counterterrorism, and in...
Headshot of Javed Ali in Weill Hall's 2nd floor hallway