Approaching global challenges through regional collaboration.
As planetary challenges mount, rising international tensions endanger concerted global-level action. From the climate crisis to public health, the implementation of global agreements has stalled, and their achievements have fallen short of agreed targets. Around the world, innovative regional collaborations to address the pressures of global challenges are emerging, even as regional boundaries are themselves dynamic and being reshaped by social, economic, and technological change.
Why this, why now?
The MacMillan Center is home to seven regional councils that bring together researchers with interests in Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and Iberia, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Bringing together world-class scholarship and social impact, the Yale MacMillan Center seeks to mobilize regional perspectives to accelerate action on key global challenges.
This new effort is intended to accelerate solutions and educate future leaders while creating new pathways to build cross-regional coalitions based on shared challenges. It was established on a foundation of the intellectual assets Yale has to offer while leveraging the MacMillan Center’s network of more than 60 partners around the globe. Through excellence in research and teaching, the Regional Futures Lab aims to cultivate a generation of changemakers adept at navigating the complexities of our divided world, equipped with the expertise that comes from a revitalized approach to regional studies.
Explore Initiatives
With emphasis on traditional ingredients and social and environmental action, Global Table centers around bringing culinary leaders from around the world to campus to connect with the community.
A multidisciplinary international cohort of student research assistants is collecting and organizing ideas and examples while developing resources for an informational portal.
Hosted by MacMillan and a local partner in the region, the Regional Scholar Workshops bring together advanced graduate students working on topics of current interest in the region.
Regional Futures Lab events are hosted by the MacMillan Center in support of generating new ideas and new connections. Each of these hat the potential to become a theme under the program.
