Schilde & Cappella Receive Grant on Political Economy of Security
The grant will be used to hold a one day workshop at the next annual ISA conference, to be held at New Orleans in March 2015.
GEGI Report on Managing Financial Globalization Launched
A new report from the Boston Univeristy Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) on “Capital Account Liberalization in China” was released on October 3.
Prof. Gallagher Co-authors Paper on China in Africa and Latin America
Associate Professor Kevin Gallagher is the co-author of a recent research paper on “Bartering Globalization: China’s Commodity-backed Finance in Africa and Latin America” with Prof. Deborah Bräutigam of Johns Hopkins University.
Prof. Min Ye’s New Book on Chinese & Indian Diasporas
Min Ye reveals that, through their foreign direct investments (FDIs), Chinese diasporas, rather than Western nations, have contributed the lion’s share in FDI inflows in that country.
Prof. Renata Keller Publishes in Journal Diplomatic History
Renata Keller takes a new look at the impacts of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the politics of Latin America in the journal Diplomatic History.
APSA Dissertation Award for Prof. Noora Lori
Dr. Noora Lori, who joined the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy as an Assistant Professor this Fall, has been awarded the Best Dissertation award of the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Assocaiton (APSA).
Prof. Adil Najam Gives Keynote Talk on IPCC
Dr. Adil Najam presented the keynote address at the Asia launch of the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), held in Islamabad.
How US ‘Tapering’ will Impact Emerging Markets
Prof. Kevin Gallagher of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies explains “why emerging markets are going to hate Janet Yellen.”
Prof. Vivien Schmidt Awarded EU Research Fellowship
BU Pardee School of Global Studies professor and EU expert Vivien Schmidt was recently awarded a research fellowship by the European Commission, Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). The award involves producing a paper entitled “The Political Economy of the European Monetary Union: Rebuilding Trust and Support for Economic Integration.” Schmidt explains:…
Prof. Menchik: Militarization of the South and East China Sea Disputes is a Lose-Lose-Lose Situation
Professor Jeremy Menchik of the Fredrick S Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University recently returned from Japan where he was part of a 10-day visit by a delegation of American specialists on Southeast Asia. The trip was organized by the East-West Center in Washington, DC, with support from the Embassy of Japan. The…
Prof. Schilde’s Research Asks: “Who are the Europeans?”
A new research paper published by Prof. Kaija E. Schilde of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies asks an obvious but interesting question: Who are the Europeans? The paper, published in the Journal of Common Market Studies (2014, Vol. 52, No. 3: 650-667), looks at European identity outside of European integration…
Prof. Woldemariam publishes research on lessons from Eritrean War
New research published by Assistant Professor Michael Woldemariam, of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, brings out a new and more refined understanding of how battlefield losses, stalemates and victories change the patters of fragmentation and consolidation within rebel groups in factional rebel…
Prof. Menchik Publishes Paper on “Godly Nationalism in Indonesia”
A new scholarly paper published by Prof. Jeremy Menchik, of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy, suggests that a new and dangerous form on “godly nationalism” is emerging in Indonesia and, in particular, targeting its marginalized Ahmadiyah community. In a paper titled “Productive Intolerance: Godly Nationalism in Indonesia” published in the…
Gallagher Co-authors Policy Brief
Kevin Gallagher of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies who also co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) has co-authored a new GEGI Policy brief on capital account liberalization in China.
Augustus Richard Norton Publishes New Edition of Hezbollah
A new edition of the popular book Hezbollah by Augustus Richard Norton has just been published by Princeton University Press.