Schar School of Policy and Government

Many believe November’s midterm elections could be the most consequential in U.S. history. A lecture series presented by George Mason University’s Honors College and the Schar School of Policy and Government will begin Tuesday, Sept. 11, and provide opportunities to help students better understand the stakes in the election and the way campaign ...

George Mason University was the only school with more than one representative among the recipients of the nine new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants that focus on illicit supply networks and dismantling them.

Researchers at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University will begin work in November on a new program intended to disrupt the operations of illicit supply networks—specifically human organ trafficking.

As a public school teacher in Washington, D.C., and as a member of the Peace Corps during a two-year period in Ukraine, Ted Webne said he saw plenty of policy in action.

William Kreamer was not thinking about the inner workings of food policy, the political machinery behind the business of agriculture, or, really, any other aspects of farming when he was a Master of Public Policy student in 2006 at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

Ali Nayyef, a student in the Schar School of Policy and Government’s political science master’s program and an infantryman in the Virginia Army National Guard, is one of 60 recipients of 2018 Pat Tillman Foundation scholarships. The foundation is named for Pat Tillman, an NFL player who lost his life as a U.S. Army Ranger fighting in Afghanistan. The $10,000 award is earmarked for tuition and fees, books, and living expenses.

Saying the United States should establish a Space Force (as President Donald Trump wants to do) is one thing, but actually creating a new military branch is quite another, according to two George Mason University professors.

Between 2002 and 2016, the United States sold $197 billion worth of arms and training through the Foreign Military Sales program to foreign countries. The United States, in fact, rarely turned down a request despite possible national security threats.

The idea that venture capital firms prefer to invest in companies led by men inspired Ruta Aidis to do something about it.

Just days before President Trump met with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in early June, a delegation from the Schar School of Policy and Government arrived in South Korea for a week of presentations addressing a topic of great concern for the South Koreans: “Issues and Concerns in International Security.”