{"id":58386,"date":"2024-01-23T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?page_id=58386"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:34:37","slug":"security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/security\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Security Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Global Security Initiative provides a space for the BU community to learn about and better understand our increasingly complex security landscape. Through events with internal and external speakers, this initiative aims to generate novel insights into a wide range of security topics, including the transformative impact of new technologies, the pressing issue of climate change, the complex dynamics of migration, and the far-reaching consequences of pandemics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contact Professor Sanne Verschuren or Professor Benjamin Goossen (gsipar@bu.edu) for more inquiries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Faculty Affiliates<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\" data-wp-editing=\"1\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2023\/07\/Picture-Sanne-Verschuren_Sanne-Verschuren-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Sanne Verschuren<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\"><strong>Co-Director, Global Security Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of International Security (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\" data-wp-editing=\"1\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2024\/07\/2022-Goossen-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Benjamin Goossen<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\"><strong>Co-Director, Global Security Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of International History (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\" data-wp-editing=\"1\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/09\/berger.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Thomas Berger<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of International Relations (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\" data-wp-editing=\"1\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/08\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-11.45.33-AM-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Professor of Global Development Policy (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\" data-wp-editing=\"1\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/files\/2012\/02\/Untitled1-e1486131910693.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Rosella Capella Zielinski<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Professor (Political Science Department)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2023\/07\/ad4244939436_Alexander-de-la-Paz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Alexander de la Paz<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of International Security (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/usnwc.edu\/_images\/portals\/0\/FacultyMembers\/Dombrowski-Peter-J\/Dombrowski-180302-N-FC129-0672247.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Peter Dombrowski<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Visiting Scholar (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2025\/08\/Brooke-Durham.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Brook Durham<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of History (Department of History)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2023\/07\/AMG-Photo_Aimee-Genell-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Aimee Gennell<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of International History (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/03\/Bill_Grimes1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">William W. Grimes<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of International Relations and Political Science (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2020\/07\/headshot3-Joseph-Harris.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Joseph Harris<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Professor of Sociology (Department of Sociology)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cssh.northeastern.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HIST-Heefner-web-600x800-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Gretchen Heefner<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Chair and Professor of History (Department of History, Northeastern University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2013\/01\/BobIndonesia-12-2-12-e1359511969214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Robert Hefner<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of Anthropology (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-63173 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-710x710.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2026\/03\/1725676333319.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Elena Kempf<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor (Department of History, MIT)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250916_183738834.PORTRAIT-EDIT-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Patrick Keys<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor (Earth and Environment)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/files\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2024-11-04-at-11.43.26-AM-600x600-1-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Tim Longman<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of International Relations and Political Science (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/09\/loori.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Noora Lori<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Professor of International Relations; Director of Middle East \u2013 North Africa Initiative (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/07\/Mako-e1579797840457-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Shamiran Mako<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Science (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2022\/06\/Zachary-Mondesire-Headshot-e1655842882915-600x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Zachary Mondesire<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Assistant Professor of International Relations (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/09\/s200_kaija.schilde.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Kaija Schilde<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Professor of International Relations (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/07\/Jessica-Stanton-Headshot-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Jessica Stanton<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Visiting Professor of Law (Law School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/Stern-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Jessica Stern<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Research Professor (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2020\/07\/Villarreal-headshot-2023_Cropped-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Ana Villarreal<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Associate Professor of Sociology (Department of Sociology)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Weinstein_Photo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Jack Weinstein<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of Practice (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/10\/Wippl-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Joseph Wippl<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of Practice (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/07\/John_Woodward_headshot-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">John D. Woodward, Jr.<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of Practice (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/09\/Ye-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Min Ye<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Professor of International Relations; Interim Director of Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future (Pardee School)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-mini\">\n<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-mini\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2018\/05\/Muhammad-Zaman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"profile-details profile-details-mini\">\n<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-mini\">Muhammad Hamid Zaman<\/h6>\n<p class=\"pardee-mini-title\">Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health &amp; Director, Center on Forced Displacement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Events<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>GLOBAL SECURITY INITIATIVE SPRING 2026 EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond the Headlines: The Arctic on the Global Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February 2nd 2-4pm<br \/>\n121 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<div class=\"has-user-generated-content event-description\">\n<div class=\"event-description__content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"has-user-generated-content event-description__content event-description__content--expanded\" id=\"event-description\">\n<div class=\"undefined\">\n<div class=\"summary\">President Trump&#8217;s renewed push to acquire Greenland has thrust the Arctic into the center of transatlantic relations. His recent threats of tariffs and military force against a NATO ally prompted European solidarity and made more salient some enduring questions about the future of Arctic governance. This panel brings together experts on Arctic history, climate and resource extraction, European and Nordic security, and the political economy of tech wealth to examine what is at stake. A panel conversation will speak to Arctic security competition, Greenland&#8217;s sovereignty and self-determination, Denmark&#8217;s position in NATO, critical minerals and shipping routes, the environmental stakes of a warming Arctic, and the role of private capital in shaping territorial ambitions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"structured-content-rich-text\">\n<div class=\"eds-text--left\">\n<p>Adriana Craciun on the cultural and environmental history of the Arctic, including Greenland&#8217;s \u2018greening&#8217; landscape and the politics of resource extraction.<\/p>\n<p>Tormod Heier on Nordic security policy and the US\/Russia rivalry in the High North.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Martin on Arctic geopolitics and strategic competition.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn Slobodian on tech billionaires&#8217; ideas to reshape governance, including through data centers and network state projects in remote territories.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Goossen on global cooperation in earth science and mining in polar regions.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by Kaija Schilde, Jean Monnet Chair of European Security and Defense (2022-2025).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/beyond-the-headlines-the-arctic-on-the-global-agenda-tickets-1981741644606?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Please register here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Weapons, Old Debates: A History of Weapons Prohibitions in International Law, 1868\u2013Present<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elena Kempf, MIT History Department<\/span><\/p>\n<p>February 3rd, 12:30-2pm<br \/>\n121 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1868, military experts representing seventeen states gathered at the Russian War Ministry in St. Petersburg to prohibit the use of explosive bullets under international law. This event marked the beginning of debates about the relationship between the weapons of industrial modernity and humanity in war. From 1868 to 1939, contestations over the legality of expanding bullets, airships and bombing, gas and bacteriological weapons, tanks, railway guns, and submarines extended beyond diplomatic practice and legal scholarship to journalists, novelists, surgeons, scientists, and everyday people. During this period, three intellectual traditions crystallized. Techno-utopians argued that ever more destructive weaponry would make war impossible. Techno-optimists suggested that the introduction of new armaments would make wars shorter or more humane. Techno-pessimists, finally, called for the prohibition of some new weapons by warning about their catastrophic effects, ranging from the infliction of unnecessary suffering to the end of Western \u2018civilization\u2019 and even of humanity itself. At a moment of debates about the legality of lethal autonomous weapons systems and nuclear weapons, this talk will situate present-day contestations in a history that is as old as industrial modernity itself.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1980001978217?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Please register here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>Erik Lin-Greenberg, Political Science Department at MIT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>February 26th, 12:30-2pm<br \/>\n67 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>In The Remote Revolution, Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of international security\u2014but not in ways one would expect. Emerging technologies like drones are often believed to increase the likelihood of crises and war. By lowering the potential risks and human costs of military operations, they encourage decision-makers to deploy military force. Yet as Lin-Greenberg contends, operations involving drones are in fact less likely to evolve into broader, more intense conflicts than similar operations involving traditionally crewed assets. Even as drones increase the frequency of conflict, the decreased costs of their operations reduces the likelihood of conflict escalation. Lin-Greenberg&#8217;s findings demonstrate that drones are far less destabilizing than commonly argued. Drones add rungs to the proverbial &#8220;escalation ladder&#8221; and, in doing so, have brought about a fundamental change\u2014a revolution\u2014in the character of statecraft.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-remote-revolution-drones-and-modern-statecraft-tickets-1980649468879?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=listing&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=ebdsshcopyurl\">Please register here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Professional to Partisan: Civil-Military Norm Replacement in Eroding Democracies<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Risa Brooks, Marquette University Department of Political Science<\/span><\/p>\n<p>March 3rd, 12:30-2pm<br \/>\n121 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This presentation will explore \u200bhow political leaders transform professional militaries into partisan aligned forces in eroding democracies.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1980649783821?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Please register here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Political Economy of Inequality and Pandemics<\/strong><br \/>\nMatthew M. Kavanagh, Center for Global Health Policy and Politics<\/p>\n<p>March 5th, 4-5:30pm<br \/>\n67 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<p>Join in person or via Zoom us for a Global Health Politics Workshop with Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD, Director &amp; Associate Professor, Center for Global Health Policy &amp; Politics. Prof. Kavanagh is a political scientist working at the intersection of law, political economy, and global health to explore how international and national governance institutions function and how they produce inequality, particularly in pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>The world is in a new age of pandemics, in which they are more frequent and severe. This is often attributed to factors like travel and urbanization. Less explored are the political drivers. This talk explores the idea of a pandemic-inequality cycle and, in particular, the comparative politics of policy coordination in a pandemic that might help explain why more unequal countries have seen greater morality and transmission when viruses break out.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/ghpwspring2026\/\">Please register here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autocracy 2.0: How China&#8217;s Rise Reinvented Tyranny<\/strong><br \/>\nJennifer Lind, Dartmouth Government Department<\/p>\n<p>March 24th, 12:30-2pm<br \/>\n121 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<p>Great power competition requires countries to be technological leaders, but a large body of literature holds that autocracies, which suppress creativity and information flows, stifle innovation. Many observers of China&#8217;s rise thus argued that it would be unable to compete technologically with the United States. This book challenges this view. Drawing on metrics of innovation, Lind shows that China has become a global innovation leader. Lind argues that China and other &#8220;smart authoritarians&#8221; have adapted their tools of control in order to better compete with free societies in today&#8217;s globalized information age. The evolution of Autocracy 2.0 suggests that China &#8211; and the countries that emulate its smart authoritarian model &#8211; will be far more competitive than many scholars expect: which has dramatic implications for the balance of power, the future of international order, and the global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1980649991442?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Please register here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid Engerman, Yale History Department<\/p>\n<p>April 13th, 12-1:30pm<br \/>\n121 Bay State Rd<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apostles of Development uses the lives and work of six prominent economists who studied together at Cambridge to interpret the history of international development from the time they began their studies in Cambridge (mid-1950s) until the 2010s. The six include three Indians (renowned trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, and ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh) as well as the creator of the Human Development Index (Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistan), the founder of important UN think tank (Lal Jayawardena, Sri Lanka), and an activist for Bangladeshi independence (Rehman Sobhan).<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1980650279303?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Please register here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>FALL 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Global Security Amid Increasing Tensions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research on Tap<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><strong>Putting the Iranian Nuclear Program in a Broader Context<\/strong><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Gary Semore (Brandeis University), Ali Kadivar (Boston College), Shamiran Mako (Boston University), Sanne Verschuren (Boston University), Scott Taylor (Boston University)<\/li>\n<li><b>Sand, Snow, and Stardust: The Military Origins of What We Know About Extreme Environments Today<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Gretchen Heefner, Northeastern University<\/li>\n<li><b>The <strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Allure of the Gas Stove: Gender\u00a0and Energy Security in Socialist Czechoslovakia<\/span><\/strong><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Julia Mead, Harvard University<\/li>\n<li><b>How <strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">to Achieve Arms Control When By All Accounts \u201cArms Control is Dead\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Mallory Stewart, <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Executive Vice President of The Council on Strategic Risks, former Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>SPRING 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Book Workshop: Religion and War in the Middle East<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ron Hassner, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Modernizing the Nuclear Triad: Securing Strategic Superiority in the 21st Century<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major General Stacy Jo Huser, Commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>China\u2019s Evolving Nuclear Policy: Motivations and Implications for U.S. Security?<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tong Zhao, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the World Economy<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shekhar Aiyar, Assistant Director, International Monetary Fund Research Department<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Latin America and the Origins and Development of the Nuclear Order<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J. Luis Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of International Security and Law, George Mason University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>FALL 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cracking the Code: How Do We Fortify America\u2019s Infrastructure in a Connected World?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeff Greene, Acting Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Integrated Deterrence: The Need for Combat-Ready Space Power<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L.t. General David N. Miller, Commander of Space Operations Command<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Elections in the U.S. and Europe: What Does This Mean for the Transatlantic Security Relationship?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roundtable with Kaija Schilde (BU), Stacie Goddard (Wellesley), Lauren Sukin (MIT), and Polina Beliakova (MIT)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michal Smetana, Professor at Charles University<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Narges Bajoghli, Assistant Professor and Vali Nasr, Professor at the John Hopkins University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>SPRING 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-mini\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Inheriting the Bomb: Ukraine\u2019s Nuclear Disarmament and Why It Matters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The Long 1948: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Humanity, and the \u2018Pacification\u2019 of Madagascar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Oumar Ba, Assistant Professor at the Cornell University\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><span 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