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Peace and War Summit focus turns to infrastructure, military rivalry Pair of Wednesday sessions will delve deeper into U.S.-China relationship Discussions on China’s multibillion-dollar, multifaceted Belt and Road Initiative and the United States-China military rivalry lead the 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit into its second week. The summit, presented by Norwich University’s John and Mary Frances Patton Peace and War Center, will hold a pair of sessions Wednesday. In the first ses...

Heine Delivers Lecture on Consequences of Trump’s Foreign Policy On January 26, 2021, Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a lecture during Wintersession 2021 – an event series organized by Wellesley College’s Freedom Project – on the Trump administration’s foreign policy, how it impacted the United States’ position on the global stage, and how it has altered global affairs.  Wintersession 2021 fea...

OPINION / VIEWPOINT By Global Times Published: Feb 25, 2021 09:23 PM Shuanghu County, Tibet Autonomous Region, was removed from poverty list on December 9, 2019. As of Oct, 2020, about 35,000 resettlement areas have been built nationwide, and more than 2.66 million units of resettlement housing have been built for the poor. Over 9.6 million impoverished people have relocated into new homes.Editors Note:  Chinese President Xi Jinping solemnly declared "complete victory" in eradicating abso...

Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Pardee School, was quoted in a recent  Financial Times article discussing Chile’s administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.  The article, titled “Chile powers ahead in Covid-19 vaccination race,” quickly points out that “the country [is] one of the frontrunners in the global scramble for vaccines on a per capita basis.” Heine attributes this quick vaccine acquisition and rollout to Chile’s positive relations with countries around t...

As the global community continues to grapple with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Atlantic Council is open for business. Our business, meetings, and events, however, are occurring virtually. For more information, please read an update from our President and CEO. In the post-pandemic world, Pakistan will be forced to cope with internal political and economic challenges and a changing regional environment. The unfolding situation in Afghanistan and Iran, coupled with a new US-China relationship, ...

GDP Center Hosts Debt Swap Research Launch On February 3, 2021, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, an affiliated regional center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a webinar discussion and interactive demonstration of its latest research on opportunities for debt-for-climate and debt-for-nature swaps with China. The webinar included Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the GDP Center, Senior Researcher R...

Jayita Sarkar Jayita Sarkar is assistant professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, and the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. The Initiative houses the Nuclear Sites Project on the interconnectedness of systemic disenfranchisement in nuclear infrastructures across the world. Website: www.jayitasarkar.com Articles by Jayita Sarkar

Miller Explores Social Media’s Impact on Democracy Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article in  Hindustan Timeson social media and its impact on global politics. This is the seventh of Miller’s monthly columns in Hindustan Times. In the article, titled “The democratic dilemma posed by social media,” Miller discusses social media’s impact on the world and wh...

5 Min Read HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba must devalue and deregulate further after taking initial steps this year to restructure its ailing state-run economy and presumably pay off long overdue debt, according to western creditors, business partners and analysts. FILE PHOTO: Vintage cars drive on the seafront boulevard El Malecon in Havana, Cuba, December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer Cuba devalued the peso this month from its decades-old official rate of par with the greenback to 24 pesos to the dolla...

There is no ‘going back to normal’. Jan 25, 2021 · 11:30 pm Adil Najam, international relations professor at Boston University, interviewed 99 experts about what the post-pandemic future will bring. | Pardee Center/Boston University, CC BY-SA Back in March 2020, my colleagues at the Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University thought that it might be useful to begin thinking about “the day after coronavirus”. For a re...