On December 4, 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future’s International History Institute (IHI) held a symposium at the American Heritage Museum titled “Pearl Harbor: Inevitable or Infamy?” The day-long event, which attracted over 200 attendees, explored the factors that led up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently joined the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) for a participatory webinar titled “Serious Fun: Reimagining Virtual Events on Ecological Forecasting.” During the session, Suarez explored how the inclusion of spontaneity, humor, and games can make virtual […]
What will be Brazil’s role in the global order after the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro? Will the illiberal and ‘anti-globalist’ turn of Brazil’s politics outlive Bolsonaro? How can Brazil contain or overcome the damage the Bolsonaro presidency has inflicted on its international reputation? In this Working Paper from the Rising Powers Initiative (RPI), Oliver Della […]
On November 12, 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia co-hosted a webinar titled “The Russia-China Quasi-Alliance and the Polar Silk Road.” The event featured a presentation by Lyle J. Goldstein (Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College), […]
Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, a Professor of Biology and Earth & Environment, co-authored a new paper exploring using oysters for long-term removal of nitrogen from coastal ecosystems. In the paper, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, the authors explain that the complex biogeochemistry of denitrification has limited policy consideration of oyster-mediated denitrification within nutrient […]
On October 30, Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies, gave a keynote address at a conference titled “The Post-COVID Political Agenda,” hosted by the Sabino Arana Foundation in Spain. In his remarks, Najam reflected on the lessons learned from the “World After Coronavirus” video series produced by the Pardee Center for […]
On November 2, 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a virtual book talk by Peter Martin, Defense Policy & Intelligence Reporter for Bloomberg News and author of the new book, China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (Oxford University Press 2021). In the book, Martin […]
Pakistan’s declining per capita water availability has increasingly led international organizations to consider the country to be on the brink of water scarcity. At the same time, water resource governance in the country is in the midst of a major overhaul. The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Pardee School of Global Studies is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Faculty Research Fellows to begin in Spring 2022. By awarding seed grants to Faculty Research Fellows within the Boston University community, the Center seeks to catalyze interdisciplinary, […]
Joseph Harris, an associate professor of Sociology and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a new paper exploring the role of the private sector on countries’ universal healthcare programs, focusing specifically on the experiences in Brazil and Thailand. The paper was published in the journal Global […]