“The World After Coronavirus,” a video series produced by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been adapted by Link TV, a content channel of the Public Media Group of Southern California (PMGSC). The series, which was hosted by Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam, featured more […]
A country’s “soft power” rests primarily on three resources: its culture, its political values, and its foreign policies, but it cannot exist on its own. A discussion of China’s or Russia’s soft power in the Western Balkans is inseparable from discussions of their economic or military strength. In this Working Paper from the Rising Powers […]
Joseph Harris and Joshua Shifrinson, Faculty Associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Prof. Harris (Department of Sociology) is an Expert Affiliate of the Pardee Center’s Rising Powers Initiative (RPI). As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow from 2015-2018, he […]
John Patrick Casellas Connors, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University and a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2018, is the lead author of a chapter in a new book titled Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The chapter, titled “Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World,” was posthumously co-authored by Prof. […]
Ahmad Azari, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, was awarded the Carole A. Chandler Student Citizenship Award at the 2021 Pardee School of Global Studies Convocation. The Chandler Citizenship Award is the Pardee School’s highest student award and is given each year “to recognize the spirit of citizenship and a demonstration of exemplary commitment to […]
Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently named the winner of the 2021 University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. The award recognizes “outstanding scholars who excel as teachers inside and outside the […]
Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, a Professor of Biology and Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, co-authored a new paper exploring the opportunities for enhanced denitrification in oyster habitats. In the paper, published in the journal Estuaries and Coasts, the authors explain that policy interest in nitrogen removal from oyster habitats has so […]
In the spring of 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a series of webinars exploring various costs and consequences of the post-9/11 wars. The webinars, hosted by Neta C. Crawford (Co-Founder & Co-Director of the Costs of War Project and Professor & Chair of the BU Department of […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a talk exploring U.S. military spending in the context of other national priorities. In the talk, Prof. Peltier drew on her recent research for the Costs of War project to compare U.S. military spending […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting June 1, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]