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 […]
Michael Dietze, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently hosted a Reddit AMA in which he discussed ecological forecasting and environmental conservation. As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow from 2018-2021, Dietze led the formation […]
On September 29, the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future’s International History Institute (IHI) and the BU College of General Studies’ World Affairs Forum hosted a seminar titled “Afghanistan, the Forever Wars, and Military-Civilian Divides.” The seminar featured a talk by Jack Weinstein, Lieutenant General, USAF, (Ret) and Professor of the Practice […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently participated in a Facebook Live webinar exploring how cartoons and humor can improve communication and problem-solving. The discussion was hosted by Bob Mankoff, former Cartoon Editor for The New Yorker. In recent years, Suarez and […]
On September 8, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the Pardee Center’s 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their summer research. The posters from the lightning talks are available to […]
The Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has updated its estimates of the total human and budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, estimating that 929,000 people have been directly killed, and that the United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend […]
Join the Pardee School of Global Studies and the Pardee Center’s International History Institute (IHI) for a book talk webinar on Monday, November 15 from 12:00 – 1:15 pm ET. The talk will feature David M. Wight, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and author of Oil Money: […]