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Global Governance is under consideration as a new focus of research at the Institute. The potential is to establish a sustained, cross-disciplinary conversation among academics and leading thinkers from the fields of law, social science, and the humanities to produce innovative ideas on global governance and new ways to address pressing global issues. |
Globalization and Inequality Initiative deals with the new realities of a world growing ever closer together through trade, finance, information, and transportation networks. The dynamics of global integration create new opportunities for some nations, businesses, and individuals, but not all. Emerging and persistent inequalities exclude many groups and even entire nations from the potential benefits of globalization. This, in turn, is generating new political, institutional, and security problems that require attention and action. |
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Global Environment addresses the challenge of global environmental change through scholarly, policy-relevant analysis drawing on the natural and social sciences. |
Political Economy of Development advances the comparative study of global economic and political transformations. |
| Global Security integrates theory and policy to analyze the most pressing threats and significant vulnerabilities of global security. The prevention of violence, the mitigation of war, and the construction of peace constitute the research area's major concerns. Critical security issues are investigated not only as conflicts among states but as effects of new global actors, transborder flows, and complex networks. |
Politics, Culture, and Identity aims to bring cultural and historical analysis to bear on transnational and international issues. |
| Cross-cutting Initiatives analyzes issues found at the intersections between and among the Watson Institute's four chosen fields of research – development, environment, security, and issues of culture and identity. |
Globalization and Inequality Initiative
Current Projects
Income Distribution across and within Countries
Gender Inequality: Dimensions, Patterns, and Security Implications in China and India
Culture and Inequality: Motorization, Globalization, and the Production of Inequity
Global Security
Current Projects
International Norms and Weapons Stigmatization
Critical Oral History: Cuban Missile Crisis and Risk of Nuclear War in the 21st Century
Critical Oral History: The American War in Vietnam
Clandestine Political Economy of War
Critical Oral History: Wilson's Ghost
Dialogue among Americans, Russians, and Europeans (DARE)
Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived
Missed Opportunities?: US-Iran Relations, 1997-2005
Human Rights at War: A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of the Geneva Conventions
Global Environment
Current Projects
Watson International Scholars of the Environment
Population-Environment Project
Political Economy of Development
Current Projects
Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Politics, Culture, and Identity
Current Projects
Muabet—Local Dimensions of Democracy-building in Southeast Europe
US Military Bases and Global Response
Remaking Transnationalism: Japan, Foreign Aid, and the Search for Global Solutions
Terrorist Transformations: IMRO and the Politics of Violence
Human Trafficking and Transnationalism: Global Solutions, Local Realities
War Epiphanies: When Iraq Veterans Break Ranks
Conduct and Discipline in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Culture, Political Economy and Gender
