Our award-winning faculty is dedicated to furthering their fields through comprehensive and cutting-edge research. In an often chaotic and ever-changing global environment, we are committed to fostering a culture of top-notch scholarship and rigorous analysis to inform policy and decision-making at the highest levels around the world.
Scholarly Publications
Fletcher’s faculty are prodigious authors, regularly writing for leading publications around the world and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Below is a short selection of recent material.
- James Berry, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, and Maulik Jagnani, “Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 17, no. 3, July 2025.
- Tamirace Fakhoury, “(Un) usual spaces of refuge? The viewer’s perspective and the politics of knowledge on refugee-hosting geographies,” Migration Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2025.
- David Logan, “Chinese Views of Strategic Stability: Implications for U.S.-China Relations,” International Security (2024) 49 (2): 56-96.
- Easwaran Narassimhan, Tarun Gopalakrishnan, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Megan Mahajan, and Robbie Orvis, “Is net zero net positive? Opportunities and challenges for pursuing a socio-economically sensitive net-zero transition for India,” Climate Policy, vol. 25, 2024.
- Aram Hur and Andrew Yeo, “Democratic Ceilings: the long shadow of nationalist polarization in East Asia” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, March 2024.
- Josephine Wolff, “The role of insurers in shaping international cyber-security norms about cyber-war,” Contemporary Security Policy, 45(1), 141-170, 2024.
Recent Books
- Monica Toft, Civil Wars, Oxford University Press, 2024
- Michael Glennon, Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2024
- Sulmaan Khan, The Struggle for Taiwan, Basic Books, 2024
- Elisabeth Leake, Afghan Crucible The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan, Oxford University Press, 2022
- Chris Miller, Chip War, Scribner, 2022
- Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel Trachtman, Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Common, Cambridge University Press, 2025
Popular Publications
Part of doing policy research is communicating our findings to a broader audience than just other academics. Below are a few examples of Fletcher faculty writing about their research in outlets aimed at informing policy-makers, industry, and the general public.
- Bhaskar Chakravorti, “What Trump Doesn’t Get About AI Innovation,” Foreign Policy, July 23, 2025.
- Chris Miller, “China has its own concerns about NVIDIA H20 chips,” Financial Times, Aug. 11, 2025.
- Monica Duffy Toft, “The Return of Spheres of Influence,” Foreign Affairs, 2025.
- Daniel Drezner, “How Everything Became National Security: And National Security Became Everything,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 103, 2024.
- Kelly Sims Gallagher, “Climate Policy Is Working,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 103, 2024.
Fletcher professors are experts and leaders in their fields who put their students first. As instructors, they strive to equip junior scholars with the tools to conduct meaningful research. As mentors, they care about students’ growth.
Recent Faculty Awards
Our esteemed faculty regularly pushes the boundaries of international research, accruing accolades and recognition in the process. We are exceptionally proud of all they have accomplished and will continue to pursue. Here are a few recent examples of their notoriety:
- Professor Joel Trachtman was awarded the NATO Serge Lazareff Prize by Andres Munoz Mosquera, one of the top lawyers at NATO and a Fletcher graduate.
- Professor Chris Miller won the Arthur Ross Book award for Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.
- Professor Alex de Waal was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Professor Elisabeth Leake won the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ Ferrell Book Prize for Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan, which the committee said was “international history at its best.”
- Professor Susan Landau won The Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS, which honors research or service contributions of mathematicians or related professionals that promote good in the world. It also recognizes the various ways that mathematics furthers human values.
- Professor Alnoor Ebrahim won the 2023 Governance Research Paper Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. For "Governance for global integration: Designing structure and authority in international advocacy NGOs," (World Development 2022), coauthored with L.D. Brown and S. Batliwala
- Professor Aram Hur’s first book, Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia, won the 2023 Robert Dahl Award for best book on democracy by an untenured scholar from the American Political Science Association.
- Dean Kelly Sims Gallagher won the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology (2022)
Students interested in pursuing research at Fletcher can work with our Student Experience team, our Office of Professional Development, directly with faculty, or through one of our research centers to find the right fit for their interests.
Thought leaders and partners interested in collaborating with Fletcher should reach out to our Partnerships team for a conversation.
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