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Eckert Testifies on Terror Financing

Senior Fellow Sue Eckert testified on the financing of terrorism before the House Homeland Security Committee in Washington this month. Speaking to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligen...

4 days ago

Former Professor-at-Larg e Cardoso Awarded Kluge Prize for Study of Humanity

Former President of Brazil and former Brown Professor-at-Large Fernando Cardoso will receive the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. The $1 million prize will be presented ...

22 may 12

Security Perspectives on a Rising Asia: China and India

Experts from The Brookings Institution and MIT will come together at the Watson Institute this week to discuss political and security issues in Asia. The panel discussion, “Security Perspective...

02 may 12

Former Colombian President Reflects on Past and Future of Drug Wars

Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, former President of Colombia offered his insights on the continuing war on drugs in the US and Latin America. In his term as President from 1990 to 1994, Gaviria made signific...

25 apr 12

Cybersecurity and International Relations

Experts on cybersecurity and international relations will come together at Brown University next month for “Cybersecurity and International Relations: A Conference.” The daylong series of...

23 apr 12

Andrew Sullivan Features Opinion Video on Daily Beast

Author and editor Andrew Sullivan highlighted an Institute-produced opinion video about reducing drug violence on his Daily Beast blog. The piece showcases Institute guest Mark Kleimans policy propos...

20 apr 12

Former PM Prodi Speaks on China, Europe and the World

Very few people were able to predict that China would grow so quickly when it first opened its doors in 1979 – not even Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and former President of the ...

19 apr 12

Euro Conference Analyzed in HuffPo

The conversation at yesterdays "The Failure of the Euro?" conference is the focal point of an opinion column by Peter Goodman, the Huffington Post Business Editor. The conference brought toge...

18 apr 12

The Failure of the Euro? Causes and Consequences for Europe and Beyond

Experts from academia, finance, regulation media and policy will come together at Brown University on Tuesday, April 17, for a series of discussions about the global financial crisis, the European Un...

10 apr 12

Choices Program Receives Prize for Afghanistan Curriculum

Curriculum writers Andrew Blackadar and Sarah Massey, and videographer Tanya Waldburger, of the Institute-based Choices Program, received the Franklin Buchanan Prize from the Association for Asian St...

21 mar 12

"5 Minutes with Mark Blyth" on LSE Blog

Institute Professor Mark Blyth reflects on viral media, austerity policy and the academy in a short interview with the London School of Economics blog.

14 mar 12

"Human Terrain" Reaches New Audiences

Human Terrain, a documentary film from the Institutes Global Media Project, was screened this month at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and the Center for Internat...

13 mar 12

Blyth in USA Today on US-British Relationship

Institute Professor Mark Blyth commented on the waning importance of the "special" US – British relationship. "The policy elites in Britain would like to still believe there is a sp...

12 mar 12

US-Japan Military Partnership Critical in Wake of Tsunami

Last Thursday, US Navy Lieutenant Commander Jeff Benson joined Lieutenant Commander Toshihiro Nishibata of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to speak at the Watson Institute on the critical US-Ja...

08 mar 12

Choices Program Publishes "Costs of War" Lesson

The Watson-affiliated Choices Program has published an online lesson for secondary school deliberation of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The curriculum unit, part of the Choices "Teaching With...

28 feb 12

Catherine Kelleher Authors Paper on Missile Defense

Watson Institute Senior Fellow Catherine McArdle Kelleher has co-authored a working paper on missile defense as part of a joint project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The paper pr...

27 feb 12

What does US aid "buy" in the Middle East?

The survival strategies of incumbent regimes shape the outcome of foreign aid in the Middle East, according to Dr. Anne Mariel Peters, assistant professor at the Wesleyan University Department of Gov...

24 feb 12

India Initiative Launches at Brown

The India Initiative has been launched at Brown, based at Watson under the leadership of Institute Professor Ashutosh Varshney. The initiative will have two profiles – one research-related and ...

21 feb 12

Remembering Anthony Shadid

The late Anthony Shadid shared an important moment with the Brown community in 2010. As he prepared to give a lecture that day, he received the news of his second Pulitzer Prize for interna...

15 feb 12

In Memoriam: Betty Garrison

The Brown community is remembering with fondness and gratitude Elizabeth (Betty) Garrison, who passed away on Monday. Her involvement with the Watson Institute began with the creation of Browns Cente...

09 feb 12

Offering Alternatives to Failed Drug Policies

“The rhetoric of international drug policy is all about shared responsibility for reducing the flow of drugs,” Mark Kleiman, a professor public policy in the UCLA School of Public Affairs...

07 feb 12

Researching Chinas Minorities

Dru C. Gladney is currently banned from entering China. Gladney, a professor of anthropology at Pomona College, says he has been prohibited from entering China ever since he co-authored a book titled...

06 feb 12

Kennedy Op-Ed: For Your Digital Freedom and Ours

Institute Professor Michael Kennedy wrote this weekend that digital rights protests in the streets of Poland should be duly noted in the US and other countries wrestling to formulate internet po...

05 feb 12

Augusto Co-hosts Brown-Tsinghua University Web Conference

Watson Fellow Geri Augustos senior seminar on Science & Technology Policy in the Global South (PPAI-1701G) held a live web conference last semester with a corresponding class at Tsinghua Universi...

26 jan 12

Watsons Latest Newsletter Highlights Security Research Pilots, Media Fellows, and More

Now online: the latest issue of the Briefings newsletter, featuring updates on the Watson Institute and its research and teaching on world affairs. In it, you can read about: new pilot projects on en...

25 jan 12

Reflecting on Decembers Global Climate Talks

“In the end Durban might have been a turning point,” J. Timmons Roberts said recently, as he returned from the COP 17 global climate change negotiating session that closed in December in ...

12 jan 12

War in Review: Research Airs at Years Close

As 2011 closed, with troop withdrawals from Iraq, and as the new year began, with the Pentagon’s promise of reduced military spending, research from the Institute-based Costs of War projec...

05 jan 12

Blyth on Bloomberg: 2012 to Bring Austerity Binge

Predicting a “combined austerity binge,” with 11 of the Eurozone’s 17 countries poised to slash their budgets in hopes of averting financial crisis, Institute Professor Mark Blyth t...

03 jan 12

In the FT: Cornel Ban Weighs Assad against Ceausescu

In today’s Financial Times, Institute Postdoctoral Scholar Cornel Ban looks at comparisons made between popular protests against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s and a...

16 dec 11

Looking Back: The Year in Video

Media is at the core of the Watson Institute’s strategy to engage policymakers and the public in its research on global policy and to train new generations of leaders in international affairs. ...

15 dec 11

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