Project is a collaborative project of researchers in India and Brown University. The project aims to systematically collect data on urban India, focusing in particular on assessing the quality of ...

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Join us in conversation with Catarina Lorenzo, Director of the RI-based organization Alliance to Mobilize our Resistance (AMOR); Liz Sweet, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and ...

The state and governance in China have commonly been seen as non-religious. However, this does not imply they are devoid of ritualistic elements. As both the current CCP leadership and ordinary people ...

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, ...

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

This paper examines labor abuses during the war in Afghanistan, focusing on how the U.S. is denying legally-required compensation to foreign workers in war zones. The U.S. government leaned heavily on ...

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, ...

Between 2018 to 2020, the United States government undertook what it labeled “counterterrorism” activities in 85 countries. Stephanie Savell (2021). This analysis of where the 2001 Authorization for ...

Rehan Rafay Jamil is a PhD candidate in the Political Science department studying comparative politics. His research interests research interests include political economy of development, social ...