Site News from the Last 365 days

Clear
Tags
Type
Theme
77 Results based on your selections.
News from Watson

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.
Read Article
News from Watson

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.
Read Article
News from Watson

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.
Read Article
News from Watson

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.
Read Article
News from Watson

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.
Read Article
News from Watson

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."
Read Article
News from Watson

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."
Read Article
News from Watson

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?”
Read Article
News from Watson

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.
Read Article
News from Watson

Sanctions on Venezuela Are Not Driving Migration to the US Southwest Border: An Empirical Assessment

Dany Bahar co-authored a paper examining the impact of economic sanctions on Venezuelan migration, finding that higher oil income — not lower — correlates with increased crossings of Venezuelan migrants at the U.S. southwest border.
Read Article
News from Watson

Human rights attorney Malika Saada Saar ’92 brings AI fireside chat series to Watson

Renowned human rights attorney and Watson Senior Fellow Malika Saada Saar has organized a series of events for the spring 2025 semester called Fireside Chats on Building AI for Humanity, featuring conversations with tech industry leaders about AI and human rights.
Read Article
News from Watson

Alumni Spotlight: Jillian Harvey ’19 MPA

After witnessing systematic inequalities first-hand while working two jobs supporting at-risk communities, Jillian Harvey decided she needed to further her education in public policy to make a real impact in her community. After graduating from the Watson Institute's Master of Public Affairs Program in 2019, Harvey became a leader in the field of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the state of Massachusetts.
Read Article
News from Watson

Alumni Spotlight: Graham Sheridan ’14 MPA

Graham Sheridan's success demonstrates that while the shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, it's not always the best career path. After earning his Master of Public Affairs degree from Brown in 2014, Sheridan took a winding route to his current position as a clean communities and economic development director at Virginia Clean Cities.
Read Article
News from Watson

Medicaid at 60

A special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law was edited by Eric Patashnik and examines the past, present and future of Medicaid as it reaches its sixtieth year, featuring papers originally presented at a Watson conference in 2023.
Read Article
News from Watson

New Watson Ph.D. Fellows Program is accepting applications for pre-dissertation and dissertation fellowships

In July, Brown University's new school of international and public affairs will welcome its first cohort of Ph.D. Fellows in an expanded program. Watson is now accepting pre-dissertation and dissertation fellowship applications from Ph.D. students who are working on development, governance and security-related topics in its five core departments.
Read Article
News from Watson

Ieva Jusionyte’s book receives honorable mention in Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award

Ieva Jusionyte’s book, "Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border," received an honorable mention in the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award.
Read Article