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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently participated in a webinar in which she was interviewed on military spending, employment, and contracting for CODEPINK, a grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars. In the conversation, facilitated by CODEPINK co-director Carley Towne, Prof. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a series of webinars in the fall of 2020 exploring various costs and consequences of the post-9/11 wars. The webinars were part of the “20 Years of War” research series, a two-year collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently authored a new paper for The Costs of War project detailing the dramatic increase in civilian casualties in Afghanistan since the United States military relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in the country […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently co-authored a new article for The Conversation exploring how the Biden administration will impact the future of racism, the Supreme Court, and foreign policy. In the article, Prof. Crawford specifically addresses the future of foreign […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a talk exploring the impacts of post-9/11 military spending. In the talk, Prof. Peltier drew on her recent research for the Costs of War project to illustrate the scale of post-9/11 U.S. military spending […]