This past Friday, Watson hosted MPA Admitted Student Day — This signature admissions event brought #BrownMPA admitted students from all across the U.S. to spend a day on the Brown University campus and hear from MPA program faculty, staff, and current students.

Looking forward, later today, to speaking on India's Democratic Backsliding at the Global India Conference, Princeton University,

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See you there in Harvard square? Official launch of Exit Wounds at my favorite local bookstore Harvard Book Store on Tuesday, April 16, 7 pm. Will be in convo with Oscar Lopez. Come one, come all!
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#ExitWoundsBook University of California Press Harvard Radcliffe Institute Leah Paulos

The majority of the budgetary increases to the Pentagon’s procurement and RDT&E budget went to projects that were not requested by the Pentagon, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense. taxpayer.net/national-secur…

In A Surprise Move, Harvard Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements — A recent Forbes article references multiple universities' decisions to resume a standardized test requirement and cites a related study co-authored by John N.Friedman.

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#RhodesCenter #podcast : How asset managers came to own everything and you failed to notice — Brett Christophers talks w/ Mark Blyth about the economics of a new subspecies of asset management, and how they’ve begun to reshape our society, economy & planet.

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Arizona Supreme Court abortion ruling supercharges 2024 race — In a Washington Examiner article, Richard A. Arenberg discusses the detrimental impact of abortion restrictions and recent court rulings in AZ, highlighting its implications for the Republican Party.

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What Chinese Navy Planners Are Learning from Ukraine's Use of Unmanned Surface Vessels — In an article for RAND, senior fellow Lyle Goldstein explains Chinese Lessons from the Ukraine War.

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The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires — Book talk with author Kristin Surak lays bare the operation of the global market in golden passports, focusing on the geopolitical power plays that both define and disrupt these global flows.(VIDEO)

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To halt the vicious circle of border violence, stop the flow of guns — In an interview with Convergence RI, ieva jusionyte discusses her research and new book, 'Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border.'

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With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden’s Reelection? — In an interview on Background Briefing with Background Briefing w/ Ian Masters, Climate Solutions Lab Director Jeff Colgan discusses oil politics and Biden’s re-election.

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The Genetics of Politics with Brown Professor Rose McDermott — In an interview on Understanding: THE WORLD #podcast , Rose McDermott discusses the components of political ideology that are genetically formed.

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The crumbling of academic freedom in Israel
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Happy to share that my Watson Institute book panel event next Tuesday at 430 with great discussants (Andrea Campbell, David Mayhew, and Jim Morone, and moderated by wendy schiller) will be livesstreamed:
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Before the Settlers: Gazan Jews, The history of Jews in Ottoman Palestine, and the War — An informal discussion on the current events in Israel-Gaza, with historian Orit Bashkin. Moderated by Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב. (VIDEO)

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The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people. 

This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except for World War II.

Providence folks: tomorrow Jason De León will be at Brown to talk about his new book SOLDIERS & KINGS. Book signing & reception to follow. Watson Institute Brown Anthropology CLACS

Graduate Program in Development fosters dialogue across disciplines — The GPD strives to foster an environment where scholars across a range of disciplines can think through development issues. But for Program Director Prerna Singh, it's more than that.

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Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire — A Saxena Center @ Brown Book Adda with SherAli Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall. (VIDEO)

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#StudentSpotlight : Khushi Patel '25, a junior at Brown University, has been awarded a Voyager Scholarship for Public Service, a prestigious program created by The Obama Foundation to shape and support young leaders passionate about public service.

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