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 […]
Pardee Center Fellow Prof. John Hammock has just co-authored Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid (with Alissa Wilson and Ann Barham, published by the Harvard University Press, 2008). Prof. John Hammock is a Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, an Associate […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is one of the feature stories in the 2008 edition of the Research and Boston University magazine. The Pardee Center is one of the interdisciplinary initiatives at Boston University featured in this year’s edition. The feature write-up on the Pardee Center highlights some […]
Prof. Kevin Gallagher, a Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future and an Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University, presented the findings of a forthcoming Pardee Center paper on regional trade agreements at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Written by Pardee Center Research Fellow Rachel Denae Thrasher […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was invited to present at a conference on “Impacting health, the environment and global governance. The challenges of taking a security approach” organized by Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in paris France. The conference brought together […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke to the Chicago Global Donors Network’s (CGDN) 5th Annual Conference on International Giving. Speaking on a panel on More than Words: Development, Sustainability, and Community Empowerment, Prof. Najam focussed on the words ‘globalization,’ ‘sustainable development,’ ‘human development,’ […]
The global economy, geopolitics, technological innovation and security are all issues that will come into play as the world transitions from energy produced largely by oil to other, less polluting sources over the next 50 to 100 years, according to a panel of Boston University energy experts. The three experts – Professor Cutler Cleveland of […]
The next Pardee House Seminar will be held on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA), on "Future Challenges: Food Security." The lunch seminar will feature Hans Hoogeveen (The Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality), Prof. James McCann (History and African Studies Center), and Prof. Adil […]