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Schar School adjunct professor Lee Roberts is recognized as a Teacher of Distinction by George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú. See why, as a U.S. Army strategic intelligence officer, it’s important to him to teach international security.

A guest speaker to a Schar School classroom provided first-hand insight into life, such as it is, in North Korea. And Justin Seo should know: He’s a defector.

A study abroad visit to the Texas-Mexico border expands worldviews and gives international security students a firsthand view of the realities of the issues facing both governments.

A new undergraduate degree program at the Schar School will prepare students to confront the Big Problems facing the globe: International Security and Law.

Schar School students were thrown into a dangerous international crisis that could have escalated into war. Fortunately, it was only a simulation—but the outcome was still a positive.

After witnessing a violent revolution in Cairo, Nardine Mosaad is now earning a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at the same time at the Schar School. What’s she studying? Government, of course.

Associate Professor A. Trevor Thrall is interviewed by MIT Security Studies Program.

As the government in Afghanistan collapsed and the Taliban seized power on the heels of the American exit from the country, Ellen Laipson, former vice chair of the U.S. National Intelligence Council and director of the international security program at the Schar School of Policy and Government, gave her assessment of the situation in an opinion piece for Asia Times.

The devastation by extreme weather events caused by climate change is having an impact on more than the environment: It’s a major national security concern. The Schar School is addressing it as such.

A drone that autonomously attacked soldiers during a civil conflict in Libya last year raises concerns about the global use and spread of such weapons, said Zak Kallenborn, a Policy Fellow at George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú’s Schar School of Policy and Government.