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Costs of War Project Releases Updated Estimates of Human and Budgetary Costs of Post-9/11 Wars
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 over $8 trillion. The new estimates were presented in a webinar on Wednesday by Prof. Neta Crawford, co-founder and co-director of... More
Save the Date | Book Talk: Oil Money by David M. Wight
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: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988 (Cornell University Press 2021). Webinar details will be available soon.
International History Institute Establishes Affiliation with Pardee Center
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 history in understanding international cultural, economic, political, and military affairs. IHI has been interdisciplinary since its founding, advocating a broad approach... More
Ray and Fulweiler Co-Author Paper on Assessing Denitrification in Oyster Habitats
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 journal Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, the authors summarize common methods of measuring the extent of denitrification in oyster habitats and propose... More
Heidi Peltier Interviewed by CBS News on Costs of Afghanistan War
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 spending will occur in the future as we continue to care for veterans and we continue to pay interest on the... More