Highlights: Inaugural Year at the Pardee School
Its been a wonderful and wonderfully busy inaugural year from the BU Pardee School. Here are some highlights.
Category: 2014
What Was The Top Global Story of 2014?
Pardee School faculty give their views on what was the most important international story of 2014.
Categories: 2014, General News
Gallagher in WaPo on the South American Commodity Boom
Kevin Gallagher comments on the environmental costs of the South American commodity boom.
Categories: 2014, In the Media
Lukes Writes About Tarnished Heroes in The Conversation
Igor Lukes reminds us that we should not expect too many untarnished heroes.
Categories: 2014, In the Media
Students Publish IR Review
The International Relations Review, a tradition since 2009 of entirely student-produced and -published scholarship and journalism, has released its Fall 2014 issue.
The Promise of Cuban Relations Great, Says Keller
Renata Keller tells RFI that the initiation of formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba is a development of great promise.
Categories: 2014, In the Media
Miller Selected for Foreign Affairs Best of 2014 List
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, assistant professor of International Relations, has been selected as a top contributor for 2014 by Foreign Affairs magazine.
GEGI Postdoc at UN Climate Talks
GEGI pre-doctoral fellow Rebecca Ray traveled to Lima, Peru in December to present GEGI’s research on the environmental impacts of China in Latin America at meetings around the United Nations climate change meetings.
Wippl Describes ‘Emotional’ CIA Culture to Deutsche Welle
Prof. Joseph Wippl said the morale at the CIA bordered on ‘hysterical’ in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, leading to the culture that allowed torture and human rights abuses to flourish.
Categories: 2014, In the Media
Norton Co-Authors OpEd on Helping Iraqis Save Iraq
Nortor and Núñez argue in their Boston Globe OpEd that the best role for the US in Iraq is to help Iraqis save Iraq themselves.
Categories: 2014, In the Media