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Faculty Research Fellow Cathal Nolan Joins Quincy Institute as Non-Resident Fellow
Cathal J. Nolan, a Professor of History, Director of the Pardee Center's International History Institute (IHI), and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, has joined the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft as one of ten new Non-Resident Fellows. The Quincy Institute’s Non-Resident Fellows program connects scholars, practitioners, advocates, and journalists from around the country and gives them a platform in Washington to help advance the organization's mission of promoting military restraint and vigorous diplomacy in... More
Neta Crawford Authors New Book on the Pentagon’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Neta C. Crawford, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University, has authored a new book titled The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. In the book, published by MIT Press, Prof. Crawford explores how the U.S. Department of Defense became the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter and argues for a reconceptualization of... More
Former Graduate Summer Fellow Joshua Duclos Authors Book on Morality of Wilderness Preservation
Joshua Duclos, a former Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a new book titled Wilderness, Morality, and Value. In the book, Duclos explores the morality of wilderness preservation given the inherent suffering of wildlife, and argues that "the technological and ethical reality of the Anthropocene warrants a fundamental reassessment of the value of wilderness." The book, published by Rowman & Littlefield, is an extension... More
Graduate Summer Fellows Give Presentations on Research Progress at Program’s Midpoint
This week, the 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows gave presentations on their ongoing research projects at the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The eight Fellows presented their research progress to date and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and affiliated faculty. The Fellows will spend the final five weeks of the program completing research papers for consideration in the Pardee Center's publication series, as well as... More
RIP Frederick S. Pardee: 1932-2022
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future community mourns the loss of Frederick S. Pardee, the founder and benefactor of the Pardee Center and the Pardee School of Global Studies, who passed away in Los Angeles on June 27, 2022 at the age of 90. Fred Pardee was a Boston University alum (SMG’54, GSM’54, Hon.’06) and one of its most generous benefactors. An economist, a real estate investor, and a thoughtful... More