Pardee Center Launches Rising Powers Initiative
RPI will conduct interdisciplinary and policy-relevant research on five emerging powers with increasing global impact.
GDP Center Hosts Debt Swap Research Launch
The GDP Center’s new research assesses which countries are suitable for debt-for-climate and/or debt-for-nature swaps with China based on significant exposure to both Chinese debt and threats to climate/biodiversity.
CLAS Hosts Discussion on Latinx Perspectives of US Elections
Special guests noted that the main lessons coming out of the 2020 election cycle is that “the Latinx community is not a monolith.”
GDP Center Hosts Book Launch for Women, Power, and Property
“New rights can make everyone better off, because they expand the pie of resources households have access to, if they enable daughters to negotiate.”
Pardee Center Hosts Webinar on Future of Sustainable Development
Expert panelists discussed the future of sustainable development in “The World After Coronavirus.”
Pardee Center Concludes “20 Years of War” Seminar Series
The Pardee Center’s series explored displacement and refugees, increased militarization of U.S. police, and growth of military contracting.
CLAS Hosts Virtual Panel on U.S. Presidential Elections
Pardee Professors and fellow Boston University experts discussed the Latin American perspectives on the U.S. elections.
CSE Hosts Discussion on European Perspectives of the U.S. Elections
Speakers discussed reactions to Trump’s defeat across Europe & the challenges facing the incoming Biden administration.
CLAS Hosts Event on US-Venezuela Relations
Congressman Miguel Pizarro, Dr. Carlos Blanco, and Dr. Michael McCarthy discussed the current Venezuelan regime and evolving relations with the U.S.
GDP Center Launches Database on China’s Development Finance
The new GDP Center database allow users to explore 615 Chinese development finance projects with specific geographic footprints.
GDP Center Publishes Report on Sustainable Debt Relief
“By relieving the debts of the poor and releasing the money to address climate change, we can start to change our world.”
GDP Center Hosts Mercury Stories Book Launch
“These mercury stories go beyond mercury, they are really sustainability stories.”
GDP Center Launches New “China’s Global Power Database”
The GDP Database enables more nuanced analysis of investment and finance activities with the participation of Chinese actors.
CSA Webinar Explores South Korea’s COVID Response
June Park discussed her research, which offers a policy framework that emphasized public-private partnerships to deal with COVID-19.
CSE Hosts Event on Discrimination of Minorities in Europe
Eddie Bruce Jones, Sultan Doughan, and Magda Matache discussed racism in Europe and how it can be addressed.
GDP Center Hosts Event on COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa
Professor Gallagher and Boston University alumni discuss the effects of COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America.
World After Coronavirus: A Pardee Center Video Series
The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range launched a new video series – The World After Coronavirus. The series features BU and world experts imagining what a post-COVID world might look like.
Center for the Study of Europe Hosts Schmidt Book Launch
During the event, Professor Schmidt discussed her latest work: Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone.
GDP Center Releases Research on U.S. Trade Policy
“U.S. trade policy made Americans more vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis, in terms of both their jobs and their health.”
Center for the Study of Europe Hosts Lecture on Belarus
Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele discussed ongoing protests in Belarus against the seemingly fixed reelection of Alexander Lukashenko.