On August 26, the Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos and Pardee Center Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt met with the Boston University 2013-2014 Humphrey Fellows for a round table introduction and discussion as part of their orientation program. The new Humphrey Fellows, who arrived at BU this week, are mid-career professionals from all over the world […]
The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) has launched a new policy brief series with the first paper titled, “Safeguarding United States’ Trade and Investment Treaties for Financial Stability,” by Pardee Faculty Fellow and GEGI Co-Director Kevin P. Gallagher. The paper argues that capital controls are important measures in preventing financial crisis and the United States […]
Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellows Pablo Suarez, Janot Mendler de Suarez along with Red Cross Climate Researcher Bidisha Banerjee are co-authors of an op-ed piece titled, “Geoengineering and the Humanitarian Challenge: What Role for the Most Vulnerable?” for The ‘Geoengineering Our Climate?’ Working Paper and Opinion Article Series. The authors discuss climate manipulation and weigh the role […]
The Pardee Center is pleased to announce the publication of a new Pardee Center book titled South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures, based on the Pardee Center Research initiative South Asia 2060. The book, published by Anthem Press, includes contributions by 47 leading experts on South Asia from various disciplines who write on the likely longer-range […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos is quoted in The New York Times on the benefits of new earth-imaging satellites for monitoring global change. According to the article, the new satellites offer frequent and inexpensive snap shots of earth.
The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows completed the 10-week program on Friday, Aug. 9 and submitted their research papers. The eight Boston University graduate students from various departments and schools began work on their intensive research projects at the Pardee Center in early June. During the program, they participated in programs involving Pardee Faculty Fellows […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin presented a talk titled “The Minamata Convention: Challenges for Effective Treaty Implementation,” at the 11th International Conference on Mercury as Global Pollutant. The conference took place on July 28-August 2nd in Edinburgh, Scotland. Prof. Selin’s talk examined five sets of key provisions of the The Minamata Convention and argued the […]
The 2013 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows met with Faculty Fellow Enrique Silva over lunch on July 31. Prof. Silva is an expert in urban planning, and he spoke about his career path and research, which has included work in Chile, New England, and Haiti. The 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows are working on individual research projects […]
Faculty Fellow Susan Eckstein was interviewed in the Boston Globe’s Ideas section on July 28th, 2013 about How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands a book she edited with former Pardee Director Adil Najam. This book is the outcome of a Pardee Center Research Project, Diasporas and Development, and is a collection of writing by experts from […]
The Pardee Center’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, and the Inter-American Dialogue have launched the China-Latin America Finance Database, an interactive database that tracks Chinese lending in Latin America. The core research for the database is based on a report titled The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America, co-authored […]