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Costs of War

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Contributor: Matthew Evangelista

President White Professor of History and Political Science in the Department of Government at Cornell University
Matthew Evangelista teaches courses in international and comparative politics. He is the author of five books including: The Chechen Wars (2002); Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror (2008); and Gender, Nationalism, and War (2011). He is the editor of Peace Studies, 4 vols. (2005), and co-editor of...

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U.S. Federal Budget

The economic costs of military interventions take many forms, including the increased costs to the federal budget – including not only the costs borne by the Department of Defense, but also increased costs for veterans’ benefits. In the case of the “post-9/11 wars,” including and beyond the U.S....

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Contributor: Anila Daulatzai

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Anila Daulatzai has a PhD in Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a 2020-21 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on heroin users in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and on the return...

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Director: Stephanie Savell

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Director, Costs of War
Stephanie Savell is a public anthropologist researching militarism, (in)security and activism in relation to the United States post-9/11 wars and policing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Under her leadership, the Costs of War project has produced research cited in thousands of media articles and...

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Contributor: William D. Hartung

Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the...

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Contributor: Madiha Tahir

Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University
Madiha Tahir is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and the co-director of the Yale Ethnography Hub. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of technology and war with interest and expertise in digital war, surveillance, militarism, and empire and technology studies from below. Her work...

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Contributor: Jennifer Greenburg

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield
Jennifer Greenburg is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield in the UK. She is a feminist political geographer working on areas of war, gender, and humanitarianism. Her first book, At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era...

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Contributor: Linda J. Bilmes

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor Linda J. Bilmes is a leading expert on budgeting and public finance. She represents the United States on the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration. She served as Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 to 2001...

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Contributor: Suzanne Fiederlein

Interim Director, Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, James Madison University
Since joining CISR in 1999, Suzanne Fiederlein has worked on a range of projects, including victim assistance and casualty data, Mine Risk Education, and International Mine Action Standards. As coordinator of management training, she directs the ERW/Mine Action Senior Managers’ Courses held at...

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Contributor: Anita Dancs

Professor of Economics, Director of Cultures Program, and Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Western New England University
Anita Dancs writes on the military, the U.S. economy, and the economics of war. She has been interviewed extensively by national media including CNN, CNBC, and Marketplace, and her research has been covered by the Washington Post, New York Times, and Associated Press among others. Dancs was...

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Contributor: Omar Dewachi

Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology, Rutgers University
In 2008, Omar Dewachi graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Dewachi has worked on Iraqi medical doctors, their role in the formation of the Iraqi state, migration to the UK and integration in the British National Health Service (NHS). Dewachi’s current research is...

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Contributor: Ryan D. Edwards

Senior Data Scientist, UCSF; Research Associate, Berkeley Population Center; UC Berkeley
Ryan Edwards' studies focus on the interrelated causes and consequences of health, mortality, and economic well being.   SEE PAPER > Post-9/11 War Spending, Debt, and the Macroeconomy (2011)

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Contributor: Cynthia Enloe

Research Professor of Political Science in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice, with affiliations in Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science, Clark University
Cynthia Enloe’s career has included Fulbrights in Malaysia and Guyana, guest professorships in Japan, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland, as well as The Middlebrook/Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at University of Cambridge, UK. She has presented lectures in Sweden,...

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Contributor: Hugh Gusterson

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Hugh Gusterson teaches and conducts research on militarism, nuclear weapons, and ethics, among other topics. In the United States and Russia, he has studied the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists. Gusterson is the author of Nuclear Rites (1996), People of the Bomb ...

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