U.S.-Funded Counterterrorism Efforts in West Africa Aren't Helping (Costs of War Report cited)
December 6, 2020 VICE World News
This article was reported in partnership with the Costs of War Project.
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Biden Wants America to Lead the World. It Shouldn’t. (Costs of War Report cited)
December 2, 2020 New York Times Opinion
This article cites Watson's Costs of War report on the number of people displaced due to post-9/11 wars.
From arms to renewables: How workers in this Southern military industrial hub are converting the economy (Costs of War cited)
October 30, 2020 Southerly Magazine
This article cites two pieces written by Heidi Peltier for the Costs of War project on employment within the defense industry.
New Costs of War Study: 37 Million Displaced by U.S. Post-9/11 Wars
September 8, 2020
In September 2020, the Costs of War project released a new report entitled, "Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the U.S. Post-9/11 Wars," outlining the number of people displaced as a result of post-9/11 wars.
At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror (Costs of War report cited)
September 8, 2020 New York Times
This article states, "At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project."
Who's responsible for the border crisis? The United States (written by Stephen Kinzer)
June 21, 2019 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "We too have trouble realizing that our problems in the world have causes. To understand the desperation driving Guatemalan and Honduran migrants, it helps to recognize our own role in creating it."
Same wall fight, new Democratic swagger: US lawmakers start border deal talks (comments by Wendy Schiller)
January 30, 2019 CBC
Political scientist Wendy Schiller comments on the "special bipartisan committee of lawmakers from the Senate and the House" that's meeting today to hash out a deal on border security. "...blame for the next shutdown, if there is one, 'will probably be shouldered more equally by Democrats and President Trump.'"
Six Historians on Why Trump's Border Wall Won't Work (comments by Peter Andreas)
January 23, 2019 Rolling Stone
Professor Peter Andreas offered his thoughts on President Trump's promise to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border, saying "The whole border in a sense has become more militarized and more difficult to cross by any measure."
Everything you need to know about the migrant caravan, and those that came before (research by Peter Andreas cited)
October 24, 2018 Voice of San Diego
This article cites research by Professor Peter Andreas who found that the auto industry and economies of border towns, such as San Diego, were devastated by post-9/11 crackdowns at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Breaking border laws is as American as it gets (written by Peter Andreas)
July 3, 2018 The Washington Post
Professor Peter Andreas argues in a column penned on the eve of the Fourth of July that Americans should consider the fact that the U.S. founders were relentless lawbreakers -- particularly of laws meant to restrict who and what was allowed to cross borders.
Breaking families apart: The moral and economic costs to the US (written by Jessaca Leinaweaver)
March 21, 2017 The Hill
Jessaca Leinaweaver in The Hill, "The spectacle of separating mothers and children is meant to communicate without a doubt the firmness of U.S. immigration enforcement."
The Politics of Human Shielding
January 24, 2017
In 2015, Middle East Studies organized The Politics of Human Shielding workshop, allowing scholars and human rights experts to discuss the role of human shielding in warfare. Recently, some of those contributions were published in the American Journal of International Law Unbound.
Innovative humanitarians share work on crisis in Aleppo (interview with Adam Levine)
December 20, 2016 WPRO State of Mind
Faculty Fellow Adam Levine joined WPRO's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss his work in addressing humanitarian crises.