October 26, 2017 The Washington Post
John Friedman, associate professor of economics, comments on an article about the recent trend of selective public universities shutting out low-income students.
October 26, 2017 To A Degree Podcast
Economist John Friedman joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations' podcast, To a Degree, to discuss the relationship between higher education institutions and low-income students.
October 25, 2017
International Fellow Alexandra Irani discusses her work developing poverty targeting formulas with refugees in the Central African Republic as well as Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
October 25, 2017
Rob Grace’s new article, “The Humanitarian as Negotiator: Developing Capacity Across the Sector” explores the complexity of cultivating negotiation capacity through the experiences of humanitarian practitioners in the field.
October 25, 2017 Pacific Daily News
Anthropology and international studies professor Cathy Lutz comments on Okinawa women and Guam activists who oppose further militarization.
October 25, 2017 Yale News
A book review of "Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine" that draws on public opinion surveys, physician surveys, case studies, and political science models to explain how political incentives, polarization, and the misuse of professional authority have undermined efforts to tackle the medical evidence problem and curb wasteful spending.
October 25, 2017 Nonprofit Quarterly
Public Policy Fellow Marc Dunkelman and sociology professor Michael Kennedy are mentioned in an article about a panel they participated in at the inaugural Greater Good Gathering, a conference "aimed to look 'deeply and cross-disciplinarily at how the means for addressing and promoting the Greater Good may be changing in today's world.'"
October 24, 2017
Senior Fellow Brian Atwood is among the authors of a six-proposal release to create a unified plan for State Department and USAID Redesign.
October 24, 2017 Niskanen Center Blog
Watson Institute's Costs of War Project is cited in a blog post from the Niskanen Center, "...the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs estimated last year that the total cost of the wars was $4.79 trillion."
October 23, 2017 Gears of Biz
Mark Blyth, professor of international political economy, comments on the effictiveness of the low-wage economy in the UK. “There’s no way for labor to push up wages since no one goes on strike anymore and the unions are weak."
October 23, 2017 Marketplace Tech
Political Science professor Wendy Schiller joined Molly Wood of Marketplace Tech to discuss the history of political propaganda and how social media has impacted it.
October 23, 2017 The Next Web
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar in The Next Web, "Americans shouldn’t wait for another damaging leak of classified surveillance programs to force the next round of surveillance reform. Reforming surveillance has never been more urgent."
October 23, 2017 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, in The Indian Express, "Modi might still be very popular, but for him, ideology triumphs over governance, civil liberties are less important than political conformity, and enforcement of a Hindu majoritarian politics is more significant than India’s economic ascendancy."
October 23, 2017 RI Future
Sociologist Michael Kennedy in RI Future, "We live in a world, then, of Ubermensch Escapism where we put our faith in a great leader like Trump or Putin or Orban, or in a simple decision, like Brexit. But these choices only make things worse."
October 20, 2017 FCW: The Business of Federal Technology
According to a Department of Justice official, framework to clarify how private companies can carry out information security research while complying with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, is gaining traction.
October 19, 2017 Energy Intelligence
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman discusses the future of the United States-led order at the Oil & Monday Conference hosted by The New York Times and Energy Intelligence.
October 19, 2017 Yale Environment360
Although a leader in climate policies, many experts say California's oil producing methods need reforming.
October 16, 2017 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Sociologist Michael Kennedy joined fellow Brown professor Hilary Levey-Friedman on Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss an array of headlines.
October 16, 2017 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Today the most visible secessionist movements are in Kurdistan and Catalonia. If their demands are met, others will follow."
October 14, 2017
Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Pandemics. Civil Wars. All around the world at any given moment millions of people are enduring disasters both natural and man-made. Humanitarian assistance comes in all shapes and sizes, from government agencies to NGO's, from foreign armies to the United Nations. But for it to be effective, humanitarian response must be coordinated. What can civilian and military responders learn from each other?