Prof. Kevin Gallagher, a Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future and an Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University, presented the findings of a forthcoming Pardee Center paper on regional trade agreements at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Written by Pardee Center Research Fellow Rachel Denae Thrasher […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was invited to present at a conference on “Impacting health, the environment and global governance. The challenges of taking a security approach” organized by Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in paris France. The conference brought together […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke to the Chicago Global Donors Network’s (CGDN) 5th Annual Conference on International Giving. Speaking on a panel on More than Words: Development, Sustainability, and Community Empowerment, Prof. Najam focussed on the words ‘globalization,’ ‘sustainable development,’ ‘human development,’ […]
The global economy, geopolitics, technological innovation and security are all issues that will come into play as the world transitions from energy produced largely by oil to other, less polluting sources over the next 50 to 100 years, according to a panel of Boston University energy experts. The three experts – Professor Cutler Cleveland of […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Pardee Center Director and Professor of Global Public Policy at the Boston University Department of International Relations was interviewed by various media outlets on the rapidly changing politics of Pakistan, especially relating to the resignation of Gen. Pervez Musharraf as President. Apart from others, he was interviewed on National Public Radio’s (NPR’s) […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future releases its second paper in the “Issues in Brief” series. Fostering South-South Research Partnerships, by Athar Osama, reviews the state of research collaborations between and amongst developing country scholars – South-South research collaborations and develops a rationale for a more systematic […]
“The Pardee Papers” is a new series of Pardee Center publications which will feature substantive research and foresight papers. The first paper in the series, “the Future of Space Exploration and Human Development” by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, was published in August 2008. This paper – the first in a new […]
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke on “Global Forests Governance” on the opening day of the “Paramaribo Dialogue” in Suriname. The “Paramaribo Dialogue” is the name given to the Country-Led Initiative on Financing for Sustainable Forest Management in support of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF). The intergovernmental meeting was attended by nearly 200 […]
The next Pardee House Seminar – the first of the academic year 2008-09 – will be held on September 22, 2008 at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215), on “Future Challenges: Beyond the Energy Crisis.” The lunch seminar will feature Prof. Cutler Cleveland, Prof. Uday Pal and Moeed Yusuf, who will […]
The second edition of China Since Tianamen: From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jinto by Pardee Center Research Fellow Joseph Fewsmith has been published by Cambridge University Press. Part of the Cambridge Modern China Series, the book provides an analysis of the changes in politics and society in China since the Tianamen Square crackdown in 1989. […]