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Alumni Spotlight: Derrick Zantt ’16 MPA

Derrick Zantt earned his master's degree in public affairs from Brown in 2016. A fourth-generation service member, Zantt currently works as an analyst for the Department of Defense, where he puts his belief in open data and the knowledge he acquired at the Watson Institute to influence policy.
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Global Networks, Monetary Policy and Trade

Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan recently co-authored “Global Networks, Monetary Policy and Trade,” a paper examining how trade distortions and monetary policy affect the world economy.
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Alumni Spotlight: Sonia Cuesta ’17 MPA

Sonia Cuesta, who earned her Master of Public Affairs (MPA) degree from Brown in 2017, was happy to give back to the program that helped her establish a career in human rights and international relations. During the spring 2025 semester, Cuesta supervised a new generation of MPA students' Policy in Action project from her position at the United Nations.
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Ieva Jusionyte wins multiple awards for latest book ‘Exit Wounds’

Ieva Jusionyte’s 2024 book, "Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border," has won multiple awards, including the Juan E. Méndez Book Award and two awards from the Association of American Publishers.
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Watson School of International and Public Affairs launches with ambitious plans for the coming year and beyond

Brown's first new school in over a decade, the Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, launched on July 1. Plans for the new school include broadening the scope of research, expanding the faculty, and breaking down traditional barriers between disciplines to address the world's most pressing economic, political, social and policy challenges.
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Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Policy in Action Symposium highlights students' real-world deliverables

From May 12-14, the Watson Institute's Master of Public Affairs (MPA) program held its annual Policy in Action (PIA) Symposium, in which students presented the results of work they did for government, nonprofit and private sector organizations over the spring semester.
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The Illicit Global Economy: What Everyone Needs To Know

Peter Andreas recently published "The Illicit Global Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know," a new book that explores the unauthorized cross-border flows of goods, people and money shaping global trade and politics.
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Crowded Out: The Competitive Landscape of Contemporary International NGOs

Jennifer Hadden recently published a book titled "Crowded Out: The Competitive Landscape of Contemporary International NGOs," examining how global nonprofits are being squeezed by competition, specialization, and dispersion—even as global needs grow.
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The Militarization of Video Game Culture

A new Costs of War paper titled “The Militarization of Video Game Culture” examines how the U.S. military leverages gaming for recruitment, training, and public relations.
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Watson Policy Labs experience busy, productive first year

The Watson Institute’s Policy Labs — created with the goal of turbo-charging research on critical policy issues by bringing together students and researchers — were highly productive during their first year of operation. The Civil Conflict and Democratic Erosion Policy Lab, the Justice Policy Lab, and the Realizing Rights Lab created cutting-edge social science research while enhancing student research skills.
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Student Spotlight: Charlie Adams ’25

Senior International and Public Affairs and environmental science concentrator Charlie Adams, who graduates this month, grew up around policy and politics. Naturally, he found himself at home in the Watson Institute's International and Public Affairs (IAPA) concentration.
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Watson's Africa Initiative partners with CARTA to strengthen multidisciplinary research at African universities

The Watson Institute's Africa Initiative is the only U.S. partner in the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), an organization dedicated to building a vibrant multidisciplinary African academy that produces world-class research.
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Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers

Mark Blyth recently co-authored a book titled "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers," which challenges conventional thinking on inflation and calls for new policy approaches.
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The Evolving Landscape of US Green Banks

A new Climate Solutions Lab white paper highlights the rapid rise of green banks in the U.S. over the past decade as a vital tool for financing the green energy transition.
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Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization

Mark Blyth co-authored a paper for Review of International Political Economy as part of a special issue on macrofinance and the green transformation, titled "Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization."
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Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier

Mark Blyth co-authored a paper for Review of International Political Economy as part of a special issue on macrofinance and the green transformation, titled "Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier."
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Ieva Jusionyte Awarded the 2025 Salomon Award in Social Sciences

Brown University’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded Ieva Jusionyte a Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award in social sciences for her project titled “Extradition: Can Justice Be Exported?”
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Alumni Spotlight: Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23

Driven by a curiosity to push our collective spatial imaginaries, Amienne Spencer-Blume, a 2023 graduate of Watson's International and Public Affairs (IAPA) concentration and current sociology Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, is researching how the configuration of space, at the micro- and macro-scales, impacts social structures and politics.
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