Experts from The Brookings Institution and MIT will come together at the Watson Institute this week to discuss political and security issues in Asia. The panel discussion, “Security Perspectives on a Rising Asia: China and India,” will take place on Friday, May 4, at 2 p.m. at Watson’s Joukowsky Forum.
May 02, 2012
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Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, former President of Colombia offered his insights on the continuing war on drugs in the US and Latin America. In his term as President from 1990 to 1994, Gaviria made significant progress cracking down on drug trafficking in Colombia, and was credited for improving the safety and security of his country. After leaving the presidency, Gaviria served as the Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004. Gaviria spoke on April 12, delivering the keynote address for "Drug Wars in the Americas: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead", a two-day event organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown.
April 25, 2012
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Experts from academia, finance, media and policy came together at Brown University this month for a series of discussions about the global financial crisis, the European Union and the future of the euro. Co-sponsored by Brown, the Watson Institute and The Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, "The Failure of the Euro? Causes and Consequences for Europe and Beyond" was organized by Watson Institute faculty fellow Mark Blyth and Ross Levine, the James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown.
April 24, 2012
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China is now the world's second-largest economy and its impact on Latin America has been "very, very big," said Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile. Lagos, who is Professor-at-Large at Brown, spoke at the Joukowsky Forum last Monday as part of a lecture series co-sponsored by the Watson Institute and the Year of China.
April 23, 2012
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Experts on cybersecurity and international relations will come together at Brown University next month for “Cybersecurity and International Relations: A Conference.” The daylong series of presentations and discussions, jointly organized by the Watson Institute and Brown University’s Department of Computer Science, will take place on Thursday, May 3.
April 23, 2012
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Author and editor Andrew Sullivan highlighted an Institute-produced opinion video about reducing drug violence on his Daily Beast blog. The piece showcases Institute guest Mark Kleiman's policy proposal for reducing drug-related violence in the US and Mexico. In the video, he outlines his mandate to refocus enforcement based on relative levels of violence and start a "race-to-the-bottom" among cartels in rates of violence. Explore a series of similar opinion videos on the Institute's Angle website.
April 20, 2012
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Very few people were able to predict that China would grow so quickly when it first opened its doors in 1979 – not even Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and former President of the European Commission. Prodi, who is Professsor-at-Large at Brown, spoke about China's rise and EU-China relations in a talk at the Joukowsky Forum on Monday. Prodi said that when he first became involved in China in 1984, he did not think that its rise would be so rapid. "I underestimated the possibility of such a continuous growth for such a long time," he said.
April 19, 2012
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The conversation at yesterday's "The Failure of the Euro?" conference is the focal point of an opinion column by Peter Goodman, the Huffington Post Business Editor. The conference brought together leading academics, journalists, business people and policy-makers from the US and Europe to discuss the evolution and future of the Euro.
April 18, 2012
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Experts from academia, finance, regulation media and policy will come together at Brown University on Tuesday, April 17, for a series of discussions about the global financial crisis, the European Union and the future of the euro.
April 10, 2012
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