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 Massachusetts Book Awards recently named Exit Wounds to its 2025 nonfiction longlist, recognizing author Ieva Jusionyte’s powerful examination of gun trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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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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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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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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Robert Blair recently co-authored a paper finding that randomized military patrols in Cali, Colombia, reduced citizens' commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
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A new paper co-authored by Jennifer Hadden for the Climate Solutions Lab examines why communities in developing countries oppose wind power projects and how that opposition could hinder clean energy expansion.
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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.
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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.
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Costs of War's latest research links debris from bombardments in Fallujah, Iraq to poor health outcomes for returnees.
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On Thursday, February 27, seven Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Director's Fellows presented the results of a semester of research working with Watson faculty and other international and public affairs professionals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress — and How to Bring It Back
Marc Dunkelman’s new book, "Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back," explores the architecture of power and how to restore confidence in democratically elected government.
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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.
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"Looming in the Shadows of Lodz," a new exhibition by photographer Leslie Starobin, opens at 280 Brook St. on February 13. Sponsored by Art at Watson, the show features Starobin's photographs from a "roots journey" to Poland. Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, "Looming in the Shadows of Lodz" illustrates how traumatic memories are passed down through generations.
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Mark Blyth co-authored a paper for Socio-Economic Review titled, "There is more to national economies than the national economy: extending the Growth Model research programme in comparative political economy."
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Alumni Spotlight: Kelly Rogers ’12 MPP
Kelly Rogers earned her master's degree in public policy from Brown in 2012. Since then, she has leveraged the knowledge she acquired and the connections she made at the Watson Institute into a career that has seen her make a significant impact on the state of Rhode Island.
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Robert Blair co-authored a paper for Political Behavior titled, "Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization."
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Student Spotlight: Charles Alaimo ’25
Charles Alaimo, a junior concentrating in International and Public Affairs (IAPA), credits Watson's multidisciplinary approach to learning and its extraordinary professors for fully preparing him for a career in emerging technical policy and foreign policy research.
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