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: […]
Boston University’s International History Institute (IHI) has established an affiliation with the Pardee School of Global Studies’ Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, becoming a new research initiative of the Pardee Center. IHI was founded within BU’s College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) in 1999 to promote the importance of […]
Former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray and Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler co-authored a new paper presenting a review of how we assess denitrification in oyster habitats. In recent years, oyster aquaculture has been recognized as a novel technique to remove excess nitrogen from coastal ecosystems. In this paper, published in the […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at Boston University’s Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, was recently interviewed by CBS News about the current and projected human and monetary costs of the war in Afghanistan. “We’ve spent more than $2.5 trillion just on Afghanistan so far, and a lot of the […]
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On August 6, the 2021 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program came to an end, concluding the program’s thirteenth year. During the last week of the 10-week program, which was held in a hybrid in-person and remote format this year, the eight Fellows gave final presentations on their summer research and submitted their […]
On July 30 and 31, 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a two-day virtual conference of panels and keynote addresses exploring the future of carbon pricing. The first day, which featured a keynote address by Geoffrey M. Heal (Professor […]
What is China up to in Latin America? While China certainly pursues its own national interest in venturing into the Americas, is this interest compatible with that of Latin American countries, or are they at odds? In this Working Paper from the Rising Powers Initiative (RPI), Amb. Jorge Heine argues that China’s Belt and Road […]
The 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Over the course of two days last week, the eight Fellows gave presentations on their research progress and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and Pardee School Dean Adil Najam. The Fellows […]