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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...

America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the ...

Some experts have argued that China’s military expenditures are far higher than official reporting would suggest, with one Senator claiming that China’s spending is roughly on par with U.S. spending.

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University facilitates the study of this dynamic region from a multidisciplinary perspective. CLACS organizes academic conferences, ...

Heidi Peltier has been a contributing author to the Costs of War project since its inception in 2010 and joined the staff in 2019. Peltier is an economist who has written on military-related topics ...