The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was one amongst a number of co-sponsors of a conference on entrepreneurship, with a special focus on developing countries held at Boston University on October 18, 2008. The conference marked the 10th Anniversary of OPEN – The Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North […]
Professor Simon A. Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton’s Center for BioComplexity, delivered his first Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture today. The lecture made a strong case for new global institutions that can serve as mechanisms of mutual trust and cooperation. According to Professor Levin, these will be […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has just released two new policy papers in its series, Issues in Brief. The first of these, number three in the Issues in Brief series, is titled The Future of Space Exploration: The Next 50 Years and is written by Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future releases the second monograph in its Pardee Papers series. The paper, written by Pardee Center Fellows Rachel Denae Thraher and Kevin Gallagher is titled ’21st Century Trade Agreements: Implications for Long-Run Development Policy’ and examines the extent to which the emerging world trading […]
Dr. Alexandra Crampton, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future presented her Pardee Center research on global aging trends at the Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium at the Boston University School of Social Work. Dr. Crampton’s presentation on “Global Aging Trends: Development Success, Policy Crisis, and […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy at Boston University and the Director of BU’s Frederick S.Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future gave a series of presentations this week at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA), Rice University (Houston, TX) and at the Santa Fe Council on International Relations […]
Prof. David Fromkin, the founding Director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and author of the highly acclaimed The Peace to End All Peace and many other books, has just published his latest book “The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future, and Dr. Miquel Munoz, post-doc Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future authored a set of two briefing papers on the global environmental governance for the Pardee Center partner, the International Institute for […]
In his October 14 column in the The Guardian online, Frederick S. Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher discusses traditional perspectives of free trade policies and references the recent Pardee Center publication 21st Century Trade Agreements:Implications for Long-Run Development Policy that he co-authored with Rachael Denae Thrasher, a Pardee Center Graduate Fellow. In the column, Gallagher argues […]
When it comes to food security, the issues confronting global food markets are not very different from the ones facing small farmers in Africa: food, fuel, finance and fertilizer. The manifestations are different, but the fundamentals are the same. This was one of the points made by a panel of experts who spoke at the […]