Pradeep Chhibber studies the political parties, party systems, representation, and the politics of South Asia. He has written Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond, Oxford ...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña will give a talk on “Humanizing prisons. Practical lessons from Colombia’s policy making.” ...

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Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University ...

Inequality makes us feel poor and act poor, even when we're not. It affects our mood, decision-making and even our immune systems. Using groundbreaking research in psychology and neuroscience, Keith ...

Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern. They project that the consequences of global warming – rising seas, ...

Please register in advance on the Events@Brown event listing.Lunch will be provided for registered attendees. The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña ...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University facilitates the study of this dynamic region from a multidisciplinary perspective. CLACS organizes academic conferences, ...

Neta C. Crawford is the author of "The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions" (MIT Press, 2022). Crawford is also the author of three other books, ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...

Over one half of the federal government’s total assets — buildings, aircraft, ships, vehicles, computers, and weapons — are used for national defense. In 2000, the Pentagon’s total assets were valued ...