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ANNUAL REPORT 2005

ANNUAL REPORT 2005
WATSON INSTITUTE BOARD OF OVERSEERS
OFFICERS
Chair
John P. Birkelund LLD’02 hon.
Saratoga Partners
New York, New York
Board of Fellows Emeritus, Brown University
Vice Chair
David E. McKinney
IBM and Metropolitan Museum of Art ret.
Thomas J. Watson Foundation
Westport, Connecticut
Board of Fellows, Brown University
Secretary
Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55 LLD’85 hon.
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Board of Fellows, Brown University
OVERSEERS
Robert H. Legvold
Harriman Institute, Columbia University
New York, New York
William R. Rhodes ’57 LHD’05 hon.
Citicorp and Citibank, N.A.
New York, New York
Board of Trustees Emeritus, Brown University
Mary Robinson LLD’91 hon.
Former President of Ireland and
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ethical Globalization Initiative
New York, New York
Alfred C. Stepan
Columbia University
New York, New York
Frances Stewart
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom
IN MEMORIAM–OLIVE CAWLEY WATSON
FROM THE DIRECTOR
WATSON PROGRAMS
GLOBAL SECURITY
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
POLITICS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY
CROSSCUTTING INITIATIVES
CHOICES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
INSTRUCTIONAL
BROWN AFFILIATED CENTERS
WATSON FACULTY
WATSON EVENTS
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Richard C. Barker ’57
Capital Group International, Inc. ret.
San Francisco, California
Board of Trustees, Brown University
Mary K. Bush
Bush International
Chevy Chase, Maryland
John S. Chen ’78
Sybase, Inc.
Dublin, California
Paul R. Dupee, Jr. ’65
Private Investor
London, United Kingdom
Board of Trustees, Brown University
Kathryn S. Fuller ’68 LHD’02 hon.
Ford Foundation
Washington, D.C.
Board of Fellows, Brown University
Sir Crispin Tickell
University of Kent at Canterbury
Oxford, United Kingdom
Sir Brian Urquhart LLD’03 hon.
United Nations ret.
New York, New York
Lucinda B. Watson
Author
Greenwich, Connecticut
The Hon. John C. Whitehead
U.S. Department of State ret.
Whitehead Foundation
New York, New York
Susan L. Woodward
City University of New York, Graduate School
New York, New York
EX OFFICIO
FINANCIAL REVIEW
THE 2005 ANNUAL REPORT COVERS THE WATSON
INSTITUTE’S PROGRAMMATIC AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
FROM JULY 1, 2004, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2005.
ALL FACULTY AND AFFILIATE TITLES REFER TO
APPOINTMENTS HELD DURING THIS PERIOD.
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Fredric B. Garonzik ’64
Mariner Investments
New York, New York
Board of Trustees, Brown University
The Hon. Leslie H. Gelb
Council on Foreign Relations
New York, New York
Vartan Gregorian LHD’84 hon.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
New York, New York
Board of Fellows Emeritus, Brown University
The Hon. Lee H. Hamilton
Woodrow Wilson International Center
Washington, D.C.
Karen Elliott House
Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal
New York, New York
Thomas J. Biersteker
Director, Watson Institute
Henry R. Luce Professor
Ruth J. Simmons
President, Brown University
Robert J. Zimmer
Provost, Brown University
BOARD MEMBERS EMERITI
Teymour A. Alireza
Mark Garrison
Alexander L. George
The Hon. Richard C. Holbrooke ’62 LLD’97 hon.
Marie J. Langlois ’64 LLD’92 hon.
Ann R. Leven ’62
The Hon. Charles McC. Mathias
The Hon. Thomas R. Pickering
THE WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S
PREMIER CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. WORKING AT THE
A LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICER HANDS OUT
LEAFLETS APPEALING FOR HELP FOLLOWING THE
JULY 14, 2005, BOMBINGS IN KING’S CROSS STATION.
SINCE 9/11, THE WATSON INSTITUTE HAS MOBILIZED SEVERAL
RESEARCH INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS GLOBAL
TERRORISM, ITS ROOT CAUSES, AND ITS EFFECTS.
(AP PHOTO/SERGIO DIONISIO)
INTERSECTION OF ACADEMIA AND POLICYMAKING, THE INSTITUTE ANALYZES CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
PROBLEMS AND SEEKS INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS THEM FROM A GENUINELY MULTIDISCIPLINARY
AND MULTINATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. ITS FACULTY, STUDENTS, VISITING SCHOLARS, AND POLICY
PRACTITIONERS EXPLORE CRITICAL ISSUES RELATED TO GLOBAL SECURITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY
AND DEVELOPMENT, IDENTITY AND CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
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IN MEMORIAM
DIRECTOR’S LETTER
OLIVE CAWLEY WATSON
1918–2004
WATSON INSTITUTE OVERSEER EMERITA
Olive Cawley Watson, a long-time supporter of the Watson Institute for International Studies, died on
November 13, 2004, at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Mrs. Watson was the wife of the late IBM
Chairman Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (Brown Class of 1937), after whom the Institute was named.
When Ambassador Watson died in 1993, Mrs. Watson continued to participate as a member of the Institute’s
Board of Overseers and later as an overseer emerita. She presided at the 1999 groundbreaking and
then again at the 2002 dedication of the Institute’s new building at 111 Thayer Street on the Brown University
campus. Her daughter, Lucinda B. Watson, also of Greenwich, Connecticut, is an active member of
the Institute’s Board, chairs its Nominations Committee, and co-chairs the Friends of the Watson Institute.
The Watsons were always engaged in international affairs, but their commitment to world peace was
heightened during Ambassador Watson’s two years as the chief U.S. representative to the Soviet Union
during the final years of the Carter administration. The early 1980s were among the most difficult years in
U.S.-Soviet relations.
Mrs. Watson, who had a successful career as a model, was married to Ambassador Watson for 52 years when
he died. Mrs. Watson also supported numerous civic and charitable organizations, including the New York
Botanical Garden, YWCA International Council, New York City Mission, Montclair Kimberly School in
New Jersey, and Greenwich Hospital, which opens this fall its new Olive and Thomas J. Watson Jr. Pavilion.
Mrs. Watson is survived by her six children—Thomas J. Watson III of Wilton, Connecticut; Jeannette
Sanger of Manhattan; Olive F. Watson of Southampton, New York; Lucinda Watson of Greenwich, Connecticut;
Susan Watson of Westwood, Massachusetts; and Helen Blodgett of Stanfordville, New York—18
grandchildren, of whom five are Brown alumni, and one great-grandson.
Prepared with assistance from The Greenwich Time.
THE VAST AND COMPLEX INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE
Struggles for democracy, redefinitions of sovereignty, regional destabilization from catastrophic natural forces, civil
war, acts of terrorism, and the passing of old and highly contested regimes—these events describe in part the vast and
complex international landscape of this past year. Whether in Baghdad, London, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,
Banda Aceh and its Indian Ocean neighbors, or beyond, millions of human beings were entangled in acts of war,
insurgency, or nature that brought about untold loss of life, property, and ultimately challenged human security.
The Watson Institute maintains a flexible structure to address these and other global events evolving 24/7 and the longterm,
recurrent trends that bring about these events. We advance our work from a multidisciplinary perspective, which
results in a collaborative ethos among research projects within our four broad programmatic domains. The Institute has
gained a worldwide reputation for this innovative approach to some of the world’s most perplexing problems.
The Institute is not organized along regional lines but rather by thematic areas. Its research agenda is not restricted to
the fields of security and political economy. Rather, the Institute employs an expansive definition of the “international,”
one in which the environment and issues related to culture and identity rank among our central research programs. Our
faculty take a critical, sometimes unorthodox, view of international affairs; many employ a broadly social constructivist
approach to their research, and they utilize media and technology in innovative ways to augment their research and to
expand the dissemination of traditional international studies discourse.
Thus, the Institute, when compared to other centers, institutes, and schools of international studies in the United States,
has been able to carve out a distinctive niche in its scholarship, approach, and structure.
THE WATSON LEGACY
The Watson Institute traces its roots to the Center for Foreign Policy Development (CFPD) at Brown University, which
emerged from Thomas J. Watson, Jr.’s (Brown Class of 1937) concern about the dangers of nuclear conflict as the
foremost threat to global peace and security. Nearly 25 years ago, CFPD began to assemble scholars and practitioners
dedicated to reducing the threat of a nuclear exchange between the superpowers. Long after the center was incorporated
into the Institute in 1995, several of its key tenets have persisted:
• collaborative research among academics and policy practitioners;
• robust engagement with multiple communities; and
• an active effort to provide Brown University undergraduates with research experience
that befits the traditions of the University.
LEFT:
OLIVE C. WATSON AND WATSON
INSTITUTE ARCHITECT
RAFAEL VIÑOLY, BUILDING
GROUNDBREAKING, MAY 1999.
CENTER:
OLIVE C. WATSON, BUILDING
DEDICATION, MAY 2002.
RIGHT:
OLIVE C. WATSON AND BROWN
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT RUTH J.
SIMMONS, BUILDING DEDICATION,
MAY 2002.
L–R:
JOHN P. BIRKELUND,
THOMAS J. BIERSTEKER,
DAVID E. MCKINNEY
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This legacy passed to us by Tom Watson and his spouse, Olive C. Watson, and now continued by their daughter
Lucinda, a Board member, has constantly guided our mission, approach, and methodology. These underlying tenets
remain as fresh today as they were when CFPD was first formed, despite a world greatly transformed by events that
none could have imagined in 1981 when we were just an idea in the mind of Tom Watson.
When Olive Watson died this past November, we mourned with the Watson family the loss of one of the most
gracious women on the international stage. Through their leadership on our Board, two generations of Watsons
have continued to kindle one of Tom Watson’s great passions in the later years of his life—preventing nuclear
conflict. Both Olive and Lucinda carried the banner when Tom passed away, and their support has meant the
development of a world-class research institution at Brown. The Institute has lost a great friend and benefactor.
A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
While we are proud of our accomplishments, we are not content to rest on our laurels. During the past academic year,
a consensus emerged among the Watson Institute’s faculty that we should strengthen the quality and visibility of our
research, build on our established base of innovative multidisciplinary research to connect more directly with the
policy world, disseminate our research results more effectively, and become more influential in policy discussions.
Not satisfied with academic recognition alone, our faculty want to move beyond the analysis of contemporary global
problems and become more directly engaged with the world.
We formulated a new strategic plan in concert with Brown’s Academic Enrichment Initiative. Our deliberations
concluded that the Institute’s institutional development effort over the next five years should consist of three interrelated
and mutually reinforcing components:
• stabilizing and strengthening our academic leadership;
• introducing initiatives to enhance the quality of research by building bridges between
the academy and the policy world; and
• formulating active and multidimensional engagement and dissemination strategies that
will concurrently serve faculty and students across the University and beyond.
We have an opportunity to build on our established base of innovative multidisciplinary research, both to strengthen
the quality of our analysis of contemporary global problems and to disseminate more effectively the results of Institute
research. Taken together, this would represent an active, innovative, and systemized effort to engage the world beyond
Brown and to influence policy more actively.
We are fortunate to be able to initiate some of these plans in the near future because of a multimillion dollar gift that
Brown received this spring from the estate of Thomas J. Watson, Jr., and Olive C. Watson, which was intended to
support the Institute. Among the program enhancements that this generous gift will make possible are the endowment
of several positions:
• the Howard R. Swearer Directorship, honoring Brown’s fifteenth president, who served
as the Institute’s first director after retiring as University president;
• the Olive C. Watson Professorship, honoring Tom’s late wife, which will be held by
a faculty member with a joint appointment between an academic department and the
Institute; and
• three additional joint appointments, which will be developed between academic
departments and the Institute.
A NEW DIRECTORSHIP
After more than a decade at the helm of the Institute, I announced toward the end of the academic year
that I would not accept another five-year term as director. I will remain in the position through June 2006,
completing my twelfth year, while Brown University engages in an international search for a new director.
When I was first appointed director by then Brown President Vartan Gregorian in 1994, the Institute, as a single entity, was a
modest, five-person (faculty and staff) enterprise, merely three years old. We are now a widely known and highly regarded
institution for international studies scholarship and outreach, with nearly 100 faculty and staff and a state-of-the-art building
near the center of Brown’s campus. It has been an extraordinary experience to have been part of such a transformation.
Academic administration can be exhilarating, especially during periods of institutional growth and development, as
we have experienced here at the Institute. Although I certainly have no regrets about the time I have spent as director,
there have been some opportunity costs for me personally in terms of research and teaching. I want and need some
new challenges. After I step down, I look forward to a year of sabbatical leave before I resume my joint appointment
at Brown between the Watson Institute and the Political Science Department.
In the upcoming year, I will work to ensure that the Institute’s new strategic plan is launched on firm footing and that
it is integrated into Brown’s capital campaign. I will also begin oversight of the recent Watson bequest to the Institute.
When I step down, I plan to leave to my successor a vital research and teaching institution ready to face global
challenges in the decades to come.
A FINAL NOTE
Each year I use a portion of my letter to thank a number of people at the Watson Institute. For this 2005 report, my
message feels particularly poignant. I can write on about our accomplishments in the years that I have been director,
but none of these could have been achieved without the extraordinary working relationships forged by the Institute’s
triumvirate—our Board, faculty, and staff
First among these is our Board of Overseers, led by its chair, John P. Birkelund, its vice chair, David E. McKinney, and
its secretary, Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55. The collective experience, wisdom, and drive for accomplishment inherent
within this body have pushed the Institute well beyond any vision we could have embraced on our own. I thank them
for their support.
Our faculty have developed over time new and innovative models of scholarship and have done so ahead of many in
their fields. They have made the Institute’s reputation what it is today in the academy both nationally and internationally.
I am particularly grateful for the leadership of Associate Director Geoffrey Kirkman ’91, who in the past two years
has helped us rethink our scholarly outreach, set a new course for future achievements with our strategic plan, and
developed one of your new initiatives—the Friends of the Watson Institute (FOWI) that will draw together Brown
alumni and friends interested in international issues.
Finally, our staff keep us all moving forward day-to-day with a level of professionalism that is recognized and respected
throughout the University. Their efforts are often the less public side of our triumvirate, but their commitment to
making our entire enterprise run smoothly is extraordinary. In addition to Geoffrey, I owe a special debt of gratitude to
my core administrative staff—Sheila M. Fournier, Susan Costa, and Daniel Widome ’03.
I look forward to my final year with great enthusiasm for the direction the Watson Institute is moving toward and for
the richness of the contributions to international relations scholarship and public policy I know we will make.
This past June, I had the opportunity to participate in the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s conference, celebrating
the centenary of the former UN Secretary-General’s birth in Uppsala, Sweden, and so I close with his words from
Markings:
“For all that has been—
Thanks.
To all that shall be—
Yes!”
Thomas J. Biersteker
Director, Watson Institute for International Studies
Henry R. Luce Professor
LEFT:
GEOFFREY KIRKMAN ’91
NEW WATSON INSTITUTE BOARD MEMBERS
LEFT:
RICHARD C. BARKER ’57
RIGHT:
KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE
RIGHT:
FORMER PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL
FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO,
BROWN PRESIDENT RUTH J. SIMMONS,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRELAND MARY ROBINSON,
RUTH CARDOSO, NICK ROBINSON,
AND THOMAS J. BIERSTEKER,
FOLLOWING A DIRECTORS LECTURE SERIES
BY MARY ROBINSON IN NOVEMBER 2004.
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WATSON PROGRAMS
During the past 10 years, the Watson Institute has expanded its research agenda to include work on
global issues beyond the security area, and it has linked its research and teaching programs more directly
to Brown University. The Institute’s programs are organized into four broad research domains: global
security; global environment; political economy and development; and politics, culture, and identity.
More recently, researchers within these programs have been reaching across traditional disciplinary
boundaries to create a fifth domain we term as crosscutting initiatives.
Further, the Institute demonstrates its dedication to the instruction of Brown undergraduate and, in one
case, graduate students, by housing Brown’s programs in International Relations and Development
Studies as well as Latin American, Middle East, and South Asian Studies. Finally, the Institute is
the home of the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, a curriculum and professional
development program to secondary schools nationwide.
Details about each of these programs follow with selected project accomplishments in 2004–2005.
More information about these initiatives is available at www.watsoninstitute.org.
AN IMAGE OF SECURITY CAMERAS
SURVEYING LONDON’S TRAFALGAR
SQUARE ON AUGUST 24, 2005, BECOMES
EMBLEMATIC OF THE VAST SHIFT IN GLOBAL
SECURITY OVER TWO CENTURIES.
(AP PHOTO/ JANE MINGAY)
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GLOBAL SECURITY
WATSON PROGRAMS
This program 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 program’s major
concerns. Critical security issues are investigated both as conflicts among states
and as effects of new global actors, transborder flows, and complex networks.
INTRODUCTION
Among the Watson Institute’s four core research domains, the Global Security Program has the longest
history, reaching back to the Center for Foreign Policy Development (CFPD), which was established
nearly 25 years ago (see Director’s Letter page 1). Yet, this area of study has undergone the most dramatic
and expansive changes during a remarkably short period, moving through the end of the Cold War, the
creation of new states out of old, the increase of transnationalism, and the spread of global terrorism.
The Westphalian world, in which sovereign states enjoyed a monopoly on military violence and diplomatic power,
has been undermined by accelerated transborder flows of information, goods, viruses, pollutants, drugs, and
weapons. An international order, once defined by uni-, bi-, or multipolar configurations of power, increasingly
resembles a heteropolar matrix in which a wide range of different actors and technological drivers are producing
profound global effects through interconnectivity and asymmetrical conflicts.
Thanks to a global media, local conflicts and regional disasters, natural or man-made, take on a global character.
The “empire of circumstance,” as Edmund Burke once called it, dominates the world scene. Accordingly, our
program must consider how global actors deal with day-to-day contingencies and how they respond to the
unpredictable. We undertake the analysis of traditional international peace and conflict issues and less traditional
concerns like transnational crime, networked terrorism, and information warfare.
Global security researchers work individually as well as collaboratively on terrorist finances, targeted sanctions,
critical oral histories of international crises, transnational crime, global ethics, weapons stigmatization, and
information technology and security. The program in the broadest sense investigates these new configurations of
power through four major themes—new global actors, transborder flows, international institutions, and complex
networks.
A critical pluralist approach is what makes the program distinctive from its counterparts in other institutions.
We do not assume that global issues are reducible to any single actor, form of power, or field of study. We strive
to produce scholarly research, inform policy debate, and engage in social movement issues from a truly multidisciplinary,
multi-action perspective. Moreover, we reach for the innovative presentation and dissemination of
results through print and electronic media, including websites and blogging, as well as documentary production
and videoteleconferencing through a new Institute-wide initiative, the Global Media Project (see page 22).
Among the new program initiatives underway is a Global Security Manifesto, which is found on our Global
Security blog site (see page 11). The Manifesto was written to open a public debate on the security challenges of
the twenty-first century. Additionally, with the assistance of Brown University undergraduates, a Global Security
Matrix was created, providing new levels of analysis for the assessment of global threats and vulnerabilities. A
June 2005 workshop titled “Beyond Terror” also brought together leading practitioners, thinkers, and funders in
security studies to the Institute to start a dialogue on how best to address the critical issues currently overshadowed
by the war on terror.
Through the rich variety of topics currently under investigation by our researchers, the Global Security Program
hopes to provide a wide range of ideas, analysis, and recommendations for meeting the most significant global
challenges of the twenty-first century.
James Der Derian, Director
PROJECTS
TARGETED SANCTIONS
Thomas J. Biersteker and Sue E. Eckert, Principal Co-investigators
This project investigates the use of financial and legal instruments to apply
coercive pressure on transgressing parties—leaders and the elites who support
them—to change their behavior, while making international sanctions more
effective and less injurious to civilian populations. Originally formed in
1998, the team has worked with international experts and the United Nations
Secretariat to develop best practices in implementing targeted sanctions.
Among the project team’s accomplishments in this period are authoring
Targeted Financial Sanctions: A Manual for Design and Implementation—
Contributions from the Interlaken Process, which was presented to the UN
Security Council in 2001 and participation in the three sanctions reform
processes sponsored by the Swiss (Interlaken), German (Bonn-Berlin), and
Swedish (Stockholm) Governments.
Since the conclusion of these processes, the project continues to contribute
to scholarly and policy debates about multilateral targeted sanctions. It
hosted two sanctions reform workshops for the United Nations Security
Council in May 2003 and July 2004 at the Watson Institute, and provided a
special training session in November 2004 for a new member of the Security
Council. These meetings serve to familiarize Council members and others
with tools to design and implement more effective targeted sanctions.
In 2004–2005, the project focused on the dissemination of its findings
through a series of articles and reports, which included “Émergence,
évolution, effets et défis des sanctions ciblées” in Géoéconomie (Revue
trimestrielle, n. 30, été 2004) and then presented an English-language
update of the paper at the opening plenary of the Dag Hammarskjöld
Foundation symposium on “Respecting International Law and International
Institutions” in Uppsala, Sweden (June 2005). In addition, members of the
team authored two chapters in International Sanctions: Between Words and
Wars, edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano (Department of
Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University): “Targeted Sanctions and
State Capacity: Towards a Framework for National Level Implementation”
and “Consensus from the Bottom Up? Assessing the Influence of the
Sanctions Reform Process.”
TARGETING TERRORIST FINANCES
Thomas J. Biersteker and Sue E. Eckert, Principal Co-investigators
This project emerged out of the Targeted Sanctions Project. Following
the 9/11 attacks and resulting passage of UN Security Council Resolution
1373, the team focused on international efforts to suppress the financing of
terrorism. Developing an analytical framework to evaluate implementation
of international rules to counter terrorist financing, the team authored in May
2004, “A Comparative Assessment of Saudi Arabia with Other Countries
of the Islamic World,” which became an appendix to the Council on
Foreign Relations’ second report of an Independent Task Force on Terrorist
Financing (www.cfr.org/pub7111/). Biersteker has been an original member
of the Task Force since it was formed in 2002. The team is conducting
similar studies and is extending the geographic and substantive focus of this
comparative analysis to assess progress in this aspect of the global effort
against terrorism.
This year, the team worked on the manuscript “Countering the Financing
of Global Terrorism,” which will be published in early 2006. The edited
volume will provide a state-of-knowledge assessment of terrorist financing,
with particular attention to how terrorist groups raise and move funds, as
well as the special challenges for the control and regulation of terrorist
financing. It is the outcome of a workshop with Harvard’s Kennedy School
of Government and an authors’ conference supported by a grant from the
United States Institute of Peace.
In conjunction with several UN member states and the secretariat, the
team is also addressing specific challenges to successful implementation
of multilateral measures to combat terrorist financing, such as the legal
and human rights implications of terrorist designations, and understanding
informal sectors and networks which terrorists increasingly utilize for
financing.
Finally, Thomas J. Biersteker and Sue E. Eckert traveled worldwide to
present project findings. Consultations included the MacArthur Foundation;
the European Commission; presentations on the financing of terrorism and
global efforts to regulate it at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul; the New
Hampshire Institute of Politics; the Italian Pugwash seminar in Andalo,
Italy; the Freie Universität; and the University of Lancaster (UK). Biersteker
also presented lessons from the UN’s counterterrorism experience for the
implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and at the
Institute for Nuclear Materials Management in Washington, D.C.
For more information about the Targeted Sanctions Project, visit
www.watsoninstitute.org/TFS/targetedfinsan.cfm.
For more information about the Targeting Terrorist Finances Project, visit
www.watsoninstitute.org/project_detail.cfm?id=51.
Team members for both projects: Peter Romaniuk (doctoral candidate, Political
Science), Kate Roll ’06, Barron Youngsmith ’06, Jesse Finkelstein ’05, and Justin
Ouimette ’07.
THE GLOBAL SECURITY PROGRAM UNDERTAKES THE ANALYSIS
OF TRADITIONAL INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND CONFLICT ISSUES
AND LESS TRADITIONAL CONCERNS LIKE TRANSNATIONAL CRIME,
NETWORKED TERRORISM, AND INFORMATION WARFARE.
L–R:
THOMAS J. BIERSTEKER
SUE E. ECKERT
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WATSON PROGRAMS
This collaboration has generated two other projects. The first was a joint
effort with the Choices for the 21 st Century Education Program, and Sony
Picture Classics to produce the “Official Teacher’s Guide for The Fog of
War,” which was distributed to 100,000 high school teachers throughout
the United States. In 2005, Blight and Lang also published The Fog of War:
Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, a book that serves as a guide
to their method through the lens of the film. They also continue to lecture
and to give workshops on and screenings of The Fog of War, including
programs for the Organization of American Historians, American Political
Science Association, and National Council of Social Studies.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, WAR,
AND PEACE (INFOTECHWARPEACE)
James Der Derian, Principal Investigator
Since its creation in 2001, InfoTechWarPeace has sought to
produce, sustain, and extend global networks of knowledge and
authority that raise public awareness and inform new policies on
information technology (IT) in international relations. The project
brings together a diverse range of experts from governmental and
nongovernmental organizations, the media and military, as well as
from industry and the academy to track and analyze information
technology’s influence on traditional statecraft and new forms of
networked global politics.
The project’s primary activity this year was the September 2004
“The Power and Pathology of Networks” symposium and the concurrent
“I love you [rev.eng]” exhibition, in collaboration with digitalcraft.org
of Frankfurt, Germany. These events focused on the
special powers and problems of networked technologies and the
role of computer viruses in defining virtual security. The program
featured the Institute’s first live webstreaming of an event (a forum
moderated by NPR commentator and Visiting Senior Fellow
Christopher Lydon) and the U.S. premiere of the exhibition. The
project is in the process of raising funds to produce its third videodocumentary,
which will be based on the event. Cisco Systems,
Inc., sponsored the September symposium.
InfoTechWarPeace continues to post online InfoInterventions on breaking
events. The most recent was “Global Swarming,” which was developed by
student researcher Nathan Lovejoy ’06 and addressed the increasing role
weblogs and cell phone cameras are playing in covering and reporting major
news events. Two additional InfoInterventions were posted during the
year: “The Bin Laden Tapes III” and “The War on Media.”
For more information about InfoTechWarPeace, visit www.infopeace.org.
Team Members: Annick T. R. Wibben, Watson Institute; Masha Kirasirova ’05;
Nathan Lovejoy ’06; Ben Mauer, an independent designer, Boston, Massachusetts;
Michael and David Udris, Udris Productions, Providence, Rhode Island; Caleb
Waldorf, University of California at San Diego.
CRITICAL ORAL HISTORY
James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, Principal Co-Investigators
James G. Blight, professor of international studies (research), and janet M.
Lang, adjunct associate professor (research), are pioneers of the critical oral
history method, which investigates pivotal episodes in the recent history of
U.S. foreign policy, including most notably the Cuban missile crisis, the
American war in Vietnam, and the collapse of détente in the late 1970s.
Employing this method, they have organized conferences—nearly two dozen
in more than 16 years at the Institute—that encourage a threefold “collision”
among former decisionmakers whose knowledge of the event comes from
experience, scholars whose knowledge comes primarily from books, and
declassified documents that provide a glimpse of the paper trail at the time
of the event.
The critical oral history method is so widely accepted that versions of it
are now being used exclusively for Cold War studies at organizations such
as the Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
in Washington, D.C.; National Security Archive, George Washington
University; International Center for Cold War Studies, Bologna, Italy; and
International History Program, London School of Economics.
Blight’s and Lang’s recent work has been focused on the Cuban missile
crisis and the American war in Vietnam. Through their collaboration with
former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, they served as principal
substantive advisors to filmmaker Errol Morris and McNamara throughout
the entire production and release of Morris’ Academy Award®-winning film,
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.
Through a critical oral history conference in April 2005, they began
work on the topic of “Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam: The Impact of the
Presidential Transition on the War and the Lessons for Today.” In addition
to top scholars of the war and newly declassified documentation, several
former members of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations participated,
including Bill Moyers, Thomas Hughes, and Chester Cooper.
Later that same month, the project organized and funded a three-day event
at Brown University in observance of three significant anniversaries of the
history of the American war with Vietnam: the fortieth anniversary of the
introduction of U.S. combat troops into Vietnam; the thirtieth anniversary
of the fall of Saigon and the end of the war; and the tenth anniversary of
the normalization of relations between Vietnam and the United States.
“The Vietnam War: Untold Stories” highlighted a joint art exhibition at
the Institute of wartime photos by former Vietnam medic, Roger LeBrun,
and paintings by Quyen Truong ’05 of her father’s ordeal surviving seven
years in a postwar Vietnamese prison camp; a lecture by Augustus A. White
III ’57, a former MASH unit surgeon in Vietnam, who joined LeBrun and
Truong in a public forum; a roundtable about the “Kennedy, Johnson, and
Vietnam” conference; and a lecture by Robert S. McNamara.
Finally, Blight and Lang have begun work with Barbara Elias ’02 of the
National Security Archive titled “Counting Casualties in Conflict.” Using
the Freedom of Information Act, their work is clarifying the magnitude
of civilian casualties in the Vietnam war and other recent conflicts and to
determine the scale of civilian casualties in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in
2003.
Research Assistant: Kingston Reif ’05.
L–R:
FRANZISKA NORI, CURATOR OF THE
“I LOVE YOU [REV.ENG]” EXHIBITION,
JAMES DER DERIAN,
ANNICK T. R. WIBBEN.
ABOVE:
JAMES G. BLIGHT AND JANET M. LANG
RIGHT:
JAMES G. BLIGHT AND
ROBERT S. MCNAMARA
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GLOBAL SECURITY
WATSON PROGRAMS
CLANDESTINE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF WAR AND PEACE
Peter Andreas, Principal Investigator
Most contemporary intrastate military conflicts have a criminalized
dimension: in various ways and to varying degrees they use smuggling
networks and criminal actors to create and sustain the material basis for
warfare. This is all the more apparent in the context of manipulating and
diverting humanitarian aid and evading international economic sanctions
and arms embargoes imposed to discourage conflict.
Focusing on the recent conflicts in the Balkans, Peter Andreas, assistant
professor of political science and international relations, shows the
explanatory usefulness of a “bottom up,” clandestine political economy
approach to the study of war and postwar reconstruction. It demonstrates
the need for a greater bridging and broadening of the study of security,
political economy, and crime. The principal project outcome will be a book
tentatively titled “Black Markets and Blue Helmets: The Political Economy
of War and Peace in Sarajevo” (under contract with Cornell University
Press).
A Junior Faculty Research Grant in International Security from the Smith
Richardson Foundation and a research grant from the United States Institute
for Peace have funded this project’s activities.
POLICING TRANSNATIONAL CRIME
Peter Andreas, Principal Investigator
Just as transnational law evaders, such as terrorists, drug traffickers, migrant
smugglers, and money launderers, have expanded their global reach, so
too have law enforcers. This project examines how and why prohibitions
and policing practices have become increasingly internationalized. It
traces the historical expansion and more recent dramatic acceleration and
intensification of criminalization and crime control in international society,
from the campaigns to suppress piracy and the slave trade of earlier eras
to the ambitious contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and
transnational terrorism.
Peter Andreas’ primary task is to research and write a book (with Ethan
Nadelmann), tentatively titled “Policing the Globe: Criminalization and
Crime Control in International Relations,” to be published by Oxford
University Press in 2006.
Other Researcher: Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance.
DIALOGUE AMONG AMERICANS,
RUSSIANS, AND EUROPEANS (DARE)
Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Principal Investigator
This project is an innovative, interdisciplinary trilateral approach to the political,
economic, and social challenges that will determine the transatlantic
agenda in the twenty-first century. Participants delve into contemporary
policy issues and suggest new agendas and specific recommendations that
will be the basis for policy action. Through this project, Senior Fellow Catherine
McArdle Kelleher aims to create a self-renewing, long-term policy forum
involving American, Russian, and European decision-influentials and
scholars in a new, wide-ranging dialogue about their common policy futures.
The first general DARE meeting, “What Next in Transatlantic Relations?:
Recommendations on the Eve of the American Elections,” met in Geneva
for two days in October 2004, in partnership with the Swiss Federal Department
of Foreign Affairs and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. More
than 30 experts from Russia, Europe, and the United States considered
recommendations for change and new cooperation during the next presidential
term. American and Russian experts were particularly interested in
how best to deal with the growing threat of terrorism, nationally and internationally,
and the role of international cooperation in improving security.
Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, DARE’s method involves
the use of both larger general discussions and small expert working
groups that will report to a concluding conference at the Watson
Institute. The next meeting, to be held at the Carnegie Corporation in New
York and again with Swiss support, will focus on the security challenges
inherent in the long-term relationship between the West and the Islamic
world in an age of terrorism. Thirty-five participants will discuss cooperative
strategies, and will then meet to have a dialogue with Richard Clarke.
DARE staff review and disseminate regularly the group’s recommendations
to policymakers, academics, journalists, and other important international
actors and organizations. DARE will also work collaboratively with policy
institutes on both sides of the Atlantic and with other Carnegie grantees.
DARE Project Consultant: Mary Ellen Connell
THE OSCE ROLE IN CONFLICT PREVENTION
AND RESOLUTION IN EURASIA
P. Terrence Hopmann, Principal Investigator
The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) celebrated its
thirtieth anniversary in August 2005, but the organization also finds itself
in one of the most serious crises it has faced since its creation. It unites 55
participating states from “Vancouver to Vladivostok” in a regional security
organization that had evolved from an instrument promoting cooperation
across the great Cold War divide in Europe to an instrument promoting
peaceful transitions toward liberal democracy and the prevention of
violent conflict throughout the region. But various members have returned
to policies of “nonintervention” in the internal affairs of states or more
unilateralist approaches to conflict resolution. Russia especially has been
very critical of the OSCE’s role in conflict management in the Caucasus
and Central Asia and election monitoring, especially in the aftermath of the
2004 Ukrainian presidential election.
P. Terrence Hopmann, professor of political science (and former director
of the Watson Institute’s Program on Global Security), has engaged in an
exhaustive evaluation of the evolving nature of the institutions that emerged
from these regional security conferences, especially their role in preventing
and managing conflict in the postcommunist countries throughout the region.
While on sabbatical in 2004–2005, Hopmann worked on a book about the
OSCE as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
in Washington D.C., and as a Fulbright Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy
in Vienna, Austria, site of the OSCE secretariat. The book argues that
normative principles, ranging from nonuse of force to settle international
disputes to the protection of human rights, have displayed a remarkable
resilience in the period since the Cold War ended.
In addition, Hopmann was asked to join a panel of five OSCE experts to
prepare an evaluation of the organization’s “competencies, capabilities, and
missions,” which the foreign minister of Finland commissioned the Centre
for OSCE Research at the University of Hamburg to develop. Hopmann
spent much of the spring and summer working on this report, which is
available at www.core-hamburg.de under “Managing Change in Europe.”
He also spoke to a special meeting of the OSCE marking the thirtieth
anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act held in Finlandia Hall,
Helsinki, during which he presented some of his observations related to the
accomplishments of the OSCE and the report recommendations; the text of
that presentation is found at www.osce.org.
INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND
WEAPONS STIGMATIZATION
Nina Tannenwald, Principal Investigator
Nina Tannenwald, Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor
and director of the International Relations Program, pursues research
on “weapons stigmatization”—how and why some weapons come to be
regarded as unacceptable by the international community. The MacArthur
Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York have supported
her work. Recently, she co-edited with William Wohlforth of Dartmouth
College a special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies on “The Role of
Ideas and the End of the Cold War.” Tannenwald also finished a monograph
analyzing how the legal regime in space should be strengthened to prevent
the weaponization of space.
ECONOMIC REFORMS IN THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Principal Investigator
This study focuses on Russian politics and economics from the Sovietera
policies of Senior Fellow Sergei N. Khrushchev’s father, Nikita, to the
leadership of Vladimir Putin. A prolific author, Khrushchev is preparing
a manuscript on the economic reforms between the 1950s and 1980s.
This year, Penn State Press published the first volume, “Commissar,” of
Khrushchev’s edited volume Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (1918–1945).
The second volume, “Reformer,” will be published in the fall of 2006.
BEYOND TERROR: A NEW SECURITY AGENDA
James Der Derian, Principal Organizer
The Global Security Program hosted a two-day conference in June to define a
global security agenda that better addresses critical issues overshadowed by
the “war on terror.” “Beyond Terror: A New Global Security Agenda” drew
together leading experts, practitioners, and program officers from traditional
(national and international security) and less conventional (human, network,
and global security) arenas. Among the issues that the participants assessed
were the dangers of organized warfare and transnational terrorism against
the threats and vulnerabilities created by failed states, resource conflicts,
transnational crime, environmental degradation, pandemics, weapons
proliferation, information warfare, and genocide.
The conference was divided into broad themes and questions on Rethinking
Global Security: Forces, Flows, and Vulnerabilities; Human Security: Past
Debates, Current Prospects, Future Face; National Security: “A New York
State of Mind”?; International Security: On the Use and Abuse of Force;
Transnational Security: Expansion, Erosion, or Transformation of State
Power?; Network Security: The Benefits and Risks of Interconnectivity;
and Rethinking Global Security after 9/11.
Institute faculty involved in the conference were Peter Andreas, Thomas
J. Biersteker, James G. Blight, Abbott Gleason, janet M. Lang, Catherine
Lutz, Simone Pulver, Nina Tannenwald, Annick T. R. Wibben, and U.S.
Naval War College colleagues Peter J. Dombrowski (adjunct faculty) and
Alberto R. Coll (visiting faculty).
For more information about Beyond Terror, visit www.watsoninstitute.org/GS/
beyondterror/.
GLOBAL SECURITY MATRIX,
GLOBALSECURITYBLOG,
GLOBAL SECURITY MANIFESTO
In its ongoing effort to engage the public and encourage open dialogue about
evolving security threats, the Global Security Program devised several new
tools on its website. The first, the Global Security Matrix, is designed to
represent visually a broad range of threats as they play out across several
levels of analysis. The aim is to provide the essential knowledge, suggest
the critical questions, and offer the technical tools that can enhance and
enlarge an informed debate on the most pressing issues in global security.
The GlobalSecurityBlog serves as a forum through which the program can
post original and innovative entries that call into question current global
security discourse. Readers are encouraged to respond by adding comments
and contributing to a critical discussion of contemporary world politics. The
first entry was a Global Security Manifesto, which is enhancing a dialogue
that cracks open the overlay of terror that currently defines international
politics.
For more information about the Global Security Matrix, visit www.
watsoninstitute.org/GS/Security_Matrix/.
For more information about the GlobalSecurityBlog and the Global Security
Manifesto, visit www.watsonblogs.org/globalsecurity/.
L–R:
PETER ANDREAS
CATHERINE MCARDLE KELLEHER
P. TERRENCE HOPMANN
LEFT:
NINA TANNENWALD
RIGHT:
SERGEI N. KHRUSHCHEV (LEFT) AND
SENIOR FELLOW MARK GARRISON (RIGHT),
THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR
FOREIGN POLICY DEVELOPMENT.
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
WATSON PROGRAMS
THIS PROGRAM ADDRESSES THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL
CHANGE THROUGH SCHOLARLY, POLICY-RELEVANT ANALYSIS THAT LINKS
THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.
PROJECTS
INTRODUCTION
The Global Environment Program was formed in 1996 to complement the Watson Institute’s span of research on
contemporary problems in international affairs. At a time when the problems of climate change and environmental
degradation require a multifaceted approach, our faculty seek the intersections between the natural and social
sciences and between scholarly perspectives and those of the policy world.
Since the program’s creation, we have focused on two primary areas: the investigation of climate change science
and policy and the training of leading environmental professionals from developing countries. The program
has also branched out to examine environmental policy decisionmaking in the Middle East, with the goal of
catalyzing positive change in a destabilized security region.
Climate change research, a mainstay of our work, encompasses processes occurring on the local, regional, and
global levels. Using innovative approaches, we are engaged in modeling population-environment interactions
that focus on how populations fit into models of energy use and green-house gas emissions. We ask which
characteristics of people and households are most important to include in these models and whether the models
are flexible enough to consider various aspects of uncertainty in the climate change issue.
We also investigate the role of nonstate actors, particularly private sector organizations, in international climate
politics. We ask how multinational corporations have addressed climate change and how they influence emerging
global environmental regimes. Faculty participating in this research are internationally-recognized leaders on
climate change, some of whom have served as advisors to state delegations, nongovernmental organizations, and
intergovernmental panels.
Additionally, the Global Environment Program introduced at the Institute a capacity-building program that
for several years has brought environmental leaders and professionals from developing countries to share
their knowledge with colleagues at Brown and to have the opportunity for further state-of-the-art training.
This initiative has placed Brown faculty and students with these leaders in their home countries to work on
specific environmental projects (15 students have worked with former visiting scholars), to replicate the Brown
experience in other parts of the world, and to help build international organizations to collect the long-term data
necessary to monitor environmental change.
Looking to the future, our work will move in three new directions as we build on our strengths in populationenvironment
modeling, in research on the role of nonstate actors in the climate policy process, and in capacity
building. First, we want to develop the program’s resources in integrated assessment modeling, a widely-used
and powerful tool for decisionmaking in the climate change arena. Our particular contribution lies in advancing
the treatment of demographics and uncertainty in such tools and in applying them to policy questions regarding
how best to achieve long-term climate change goals. Second, our integrated assessment modeling effort will be
coupled with a contextual analysis to consider how the science this modeling effort produces fits into the policy
world. Third, we propose to increase our emphasis on environment-development links and their relevance to
integrated assessment modeling and the international climate change policy process.
The unifying force for all these initiatives has been our efforts to build a bridge between natural and social
sciences to address some of the most pressing environmental problems of our times. Our strength lies within
the Institute’s mission, which is to seek multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to solve global problems.
Our vision is to move the study of climate change science and policy, population-environment interactions,
and environmental capacity-building beyond the realm of academia into active engagement with policy and
decisionmakers throughout the world.
Steven P. Hamburg, Director
CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVES
Steven P. Hamburg, Brian O’Neill, and
Simone Pulver, Principal Co-investigators
This research initiative carries out scholarly analyses to inform the science
and policy processes related to climate change. Its work focuses on three
main areas: strategies for connecting short-term policies to long-term
climate change goals, the role of the private sector in climate change policy,
and regional initiatives on climate change education and policy.
Recently, Brian C. O’Neill, an assistant professor (research), published a
paper in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, demonstrating
that long-term climate change goals are not a sufficient guide to short-term
policy development. Climate change during the interim period could still
approach dangerous levels or rates of change. This work serves as the basis
for a project underway that proposes alternative types of policy targets and
guideposts. He is also actively participating in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), an international scientific assessment body
that is the principal source of scientific input to the international climate
change policy process. O’Neill has presented at IPCC Expert Meetings
on emissions scenarios and on climate change impacts. He is currently
serving as a lead author for the IPCC’s ongoing Fourth Assessment Report.
Additionally, Simone Pulver, an assistant professor (research), received
a Salomon Faculty Research Award in support of her research on the
“Marketizing of Environmental Regulation.” This initiative involves
collaboration with the UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany,
and the IPCC Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, to track trends in state
and nonstate actor participation in the international climate negotiations
process. Pulver also co-authored an e-learning module on climate change
as an international security risk. The module is part of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology’s (ETH) education and training program, run
through the ETH Center for Security Studies.
Steven P. Hamburg continues his regional climate change efforts linking
climate researchers with informal educators as part of the New Science
Center Collaborative. This effort is intended to enhance the level of civil
discourse surrounding climate change issues. The model he helped develop
in New England has been replicated in North Carolina and Connecticut and
is being explored in other parts of the country.
Other Researchers: Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University; Annie Petsonk,
Environmental Defense; Richard Polonsky, Visiting Senior Fellow.
POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
Brian C. O’Neill and Leiwen Jiang, Principal Investigators
This project investigates interactions between the environment and
demographic processes, such as population growth, aging, urbanization,
and changes in living arrangements. Its work focuses on how demographic
change influences energy use and land use (and associated pollutant
emissions), as well as the development of new population projections.
In the energy area, the project has recently completed an analysis
demonstrating that aging could substantially affect future energy use and
carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. A case study on energy use
in China with a special focus on urbanization is currently underway, as is a
study by project collaborators Joyce Chen and Mark Pitt of determinants of
changes in household energy use in Indonesia during the past 20 years.
Work on land use has included a project led by Leiwen Jiang, assistant
professor (research), on population change and land degradation in Xinjiang,
China, as well as a paper on global and case-based modeling of population
and land use for a forthcoming volume from the U.S. National Academies
of Science on New Research on Population and Environment.
In the area of population projections, Jiang and colleagues have recently
developed new sets of long-term household projections for the United States
and China, which provide an important input to the study of environmental
consequences of demographic change. In addition, Brian C. O’Neill
recently led the development of new global population scenarios for use in
the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international effort to asses the
current state of, and outlook for, ecosystems goods and services and human
well being.
Other Collaborators: Andrew Foster and Mark Pitt, Economics, Brown University;
Michael Dalton, California State University, Monterey Bay; Alexia Fürnkranz-
Prskawetz, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Wolfgang Lutz,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; Zeng Yi, Duke
University, Beijing University, Max Planck Institute; Hugh Pitcher, University of
Maryland; John Pitkin, Analysis and Forecasting, Inc.; and Joyce Chen, Harvard
University.
MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES
(MEEF) PROJECT
Steven P. Hamburg, Principal Investigator
An international team of scholars has been working on environmental
problems within Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The MEEF Project
comprises 40 Israeli, Palestinian, Canadian, and U.S. researchers, who are
examining environmental quality from an interdisciplinary and multinational
perspective in this hotly contested region. The project’s goal is to enhance
the region’s environmental policy decisionmaking and catalyze public
discussion for positive change in the region.
AT A TIME WHEN THE PROBLEMS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION REQUIRE A MULTIFACETED
APPROACH, OUR FACULTY SEEK THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN
THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND BETWEEN SCHOLARLY
PERSPECTIVES AND THOSE OF THE POLICY WORLD.
SIMONE PULVER
L–R:
LEIWEN JIANG
BRIAN C. O’NEILL
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
Begun in 2002, the project team is engaged in a variety of activities
from conferences to research projects in the field to the dissemination of
project findings within the region and beyond. In 2004–2005, these efforts
included:
“Palestinian and Israeli Environmental Narratives” Conference in Toronto,
Canada, in December 2004, a collaboration between York University and
the Watson Institute. Conference participants shared research papers on
how Israeli and Palestinian populations interpret their natural environment
and related problems. In April 2005, the proceedings were published as a
350-page volume containing new, cutting-edge research about this subject.
BRIT VII Conference, Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, January 2005.
MEEF participants Stuart Schoenfeld, Daniel Orenstein, and Steven P.
Hamburg, director of the Global Environment Program, presented updates
on the MEEF Project for two conference sessions.
Investigation into the future of the Dead Sea Basin, March 2005. MEEF
researchers Khaldoun Rishmawi, Jad Isaac, and Clive Lipchin participated
in this interdisciplinary environmental research project.
MEEF sponsored student research projects in Israel, Jordan, and Egypt
in May 2005. Yaakov Jerome Garb, another MEEF researcher, led this
initiative.
For more information about the MEEF Project, visit www.watsoninstitute.org/
meef/.
Other Researchers: Calvin Goldscheider, Judaic Studies, Rachel Morello-Frosch,
Center for Environmental Studies, and Daniel Orenstein, doctoral candidate in
Environmental Studies, Brown University; Brian C. O’Neill, International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna/Watson Institute; Jeff Albert ’92, Environmental
Protection Agency/ Watson Institute; Samer Alatout, University of Wisconsin
at Madison; David Brooks, Friends of the Earth, Canada; Yaakov Jerome Garb,
Institute of Regional and Urban Studies at Hebrew University and Arava Institute for
Environmental Studies; Clive Lipchin, Arava Institute; Khaldoun Rishmawi and Jad
Isaac, Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem; Stuart Schoenfeld and Itay Greenspan,
York University.
WATSON INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS
OF THE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM
(WATSON SCHOLARS)
Steven P. Hamburg, Principal Investigator
The Watson Scholars program was launched in 2002 as one of three components
of “Catalyzing the Flow of North-South Environmental Knowledge”
(Hamburg and Richard E. Wetzler, Principal Co-investigators), supported
by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. To date, 43 environmental
leaders of university faculties, governments, and nongovernmental (NGO)
organizations from 39 developing nations have received intensive training
within the Global Environment Program.
While continuing its collaboration with the United Nations Environment
Programme, which certified the Watson Scholars curriculum, this year’s
efforts have focused on assisting Watson Scholars as they implement incountry
initiatives to build environmental science, policy, and technology
capabilities across the developing world.
LECTURE SERIES ON
CORPORATE POWER AND GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
Simone Pulver, Principal Organizer
In the spring of 2005, Simone Pulver, an assistant professor (research),
organized a lecture series that explored the topic of corporate power in
specific international environmental issue areas, including global climate
change, biosafety, research on neglected diseases, and the environmental
consequences of international trade. It featured five speakers: Charles Derber
of Boston College, Kevin P. Gallagher of Boston University, Michael Kremer
of Harvard University, David Levy of the University of Massachusetts at
Boston, and Rachel Schurman of the University of Minnesota, The series
was funded by the Brown University Faculty Lectures.
BROWN ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL
SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE
Simone Pulver, Principal Organizer
Now, in its second year, the Brown Environmental Social Science and
Humanities Roundtable (ESSHR) organizes several lunch seminars to bring
together faculty from Brown’s Departments of Anthropology, Community
Health, Economics, English, History, and Sociology, as well as the Center
for Environmental Studies and the Watson Institute. The purpose of the
roundtable is to encourage an interdisciplinary discussion of the social
and political dimensions of environmental problems. ESSHR activities are
supported by a grant from the Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning.
This program advances the comparative study of global economic and political
processes by integrating economic analysis with studies in sociology, political
science, and anthropology. The program is organized around the axes of
economic growth, social equity, and democracy.
INTRODUCTION
The Watson Institute has had a long-standing commitment to the study of global economic and political
processes, which have undergone dramatic transformations with globalization and the end of the Cold War.
Thus, when the Institute’s programmatic structure was reorganized in 1996, the formation of a Political Economy
and Development Program (PED) was a natural outgrowth of the former Center for the Comparative Study of
Development. Nearly a decade later, the substantive themes of our program revolve around several aspects of
development: growth, inequality and poverty, and democracy.
The PED Program accomplishes its work through a three-fold network of scholars from the core program areas
at the Institute, from Brown University’s social science departments, and from universities both nationally and
internationally.
Our programmatic methodology employs comparative analysis of development trends and policies among
countries and regions of the world. We stress interdisciplinary dialogue, meaning that as scholars in economics,
sociology, political science, and anthropology, we try to break down methodological barriers to more effective
analysis. We use both quantitative and qualitative methods in our comparative approach. One of our most
important publications in recent years was the award-winning Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social
Sciences (Dietrich Rueschemeyer and James Mahoney, co-editors).
We plan in the next year to advance research on several topics: global political institutions and their impact on
labor, the role of foreign aid in promoting private-sector development, democracy and economic growth, and
comparative development in Asia and Latin America. We are fortunate to have in residence Fernando Henrique
Cardoso, the former president of Brazil and a noted sociologist, to participate in our deliberations.
In addition to our substantive research activities, we have undertaken an important initiative in the teaching
area. Acting on the Institute’s mission to educate another generation of scholars, we worked with Brown’s
Graduate School to create a new component to doctoral programs in the social sciences. The Graduate Program
in Development (see page 16) just completed the first year of a program in which graduate students will do
intensive, interdisciplinary coursework in development studies to complement their own departmental degree
requirements.
Of key importance to the PED Program is the dissemination of our research findings both within the academy
and beyond to the policy world. While we will continue to use more traditional avenues for engagement with the
academy—authored and edited volumes and journal articles—we also plan to extend our outreach to the policy
world through paper and e-publications. We are particularly excited to announce that this past spring the program
became the editorial home for the highly-regarded international journal, Studies in Comparative International
Development (see page 16).
The Watson Institute’s commitment to the study of development is long-standing and continues into this decade
with fresh perspectives, the integration of methodologies, and new directions in teaching and publications.
Through a strong scholars’ network, rigorous field research, growing ties to the policy world, and multifaceted
forms of dissemination, we envision important substantive contributions to the field for years to come.
Barbara Stallings, Director
OUR PROGRAM STRESSES INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE,
MEANING THAT AS SCHOLARS IN ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY,
ABOVE:
2003–2004 WATSON SCHOLAR
WANJIRU MWATHA (LEFT) OF KENYA,
AND LEIWEN JIANG (RIGHT). MWATHA WORKED
WITH TIMOTHY DOWNING ’05, A LUCE FELLOW,
ON A PROJECT MAPPING THE WILDLIFE
CORRIDORS OF THE NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK
DURING THE SUMMER OF 2004.
LEFT:
CHARLES DERBER OF BOSTON COLLEGE
DURING THE LECTURE SERIES ON CORPORATE
POWER AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE.
RICHARD E. WETZLER
POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND ANTHROPOLOGY, WE TRY TO BREAK DOWN
METHODOLOGICAL BARRIERS TO MORE EFFECTIVE ANALYSIS.
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POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
WATSON PROGRAMS
PROJECTS
FOREIGN AID AND
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Carol Lancaster, Principal Investigator
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENT
(GPD)
Barbara Stallings and Patrick Heller, Sociology/Development Studies,
Co-directors
The Political Economy and Development Program has taken the lead, on
behalf of the Watson Institute, to set up a graduate teaching program. The
Graduate Program in Development (GPD) is a supplement to the curricula
of students enrolled in PhD programs in anthropology, economics, political
science, and sociology, and whose main interest is in development studies.
The program involves an additional semester of interdisciplinary course
work—a two-semester core course, an economics course, and another
course outside of the student’s home department. Other activities are
participation in the Colloquium on Comparative Research (see below),
as well as conferences and seminars organized by GPD. Students receive
a certificate together with their department-based degree and are eligible
to apply for research money. The program is currently in its second year,
financed by seed money from Brown University’s Graduate School and
the Watson Institute. Two GPD Fellows were awarded two-year grants
beginning in fall 2004.
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPARATIVE
RESEARCH (CCR)
Melani Cammett ’91, Political Science, Convenor (2004–2005)
The Colloquium on Comparative Research is a regular seminar for
faculty and graduate students. Outside scholars and local faculty members
alternately present papers and actively participate in the follow-up
discussions. While most of the papers have concerned issues relating to
comparative development experiences, this focus has been defined quite
broadly. Fifteen presentations were made during 2004–2005 by Brown
faculty and outside speakers. This latter group included Sarah Babb,
Boston College; Kanchan Chandra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Richard Doner, Emory University; Jeffrey Goodwin, New York University;
Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University; Sanjeev Khagram, Harvard University;
Evan Lieberman, Princeton University; Ken Roberts, the University of New
Mexico; and James Scott, Yale University. In addition, former Brazilian
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Visiting Professor (Research)
Ruth Cardoso made several presentations in a special month-long module
on Brazil.
STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SCID)
Barbara Stallings, Editor
Many of the faculty members involved in the Graduate Program in
Development and the Colloquium on Comparative Research are part
of the 14-member editorial collective that is jointly editing the journal,
Studies in Comparative International Development. SCID moved from the
University of California at Berkeley to the Watson Institute in June 2005
for a five-year term. Published quarterly, it is a leading journal in the area
of Development Studies. SCID addresses political, social, economic, and
environmental change in national, comparative, and international contexts.
Among its major emphases are political and state institutions; the effects
of a changing international economy; political-economic models of growth
and distribution; and the transformation of social structure and culture. An
interdisciplinary journal, SCID presents critical and innovative analytical
perspectives that challenge prevailing orthodoxies, features original
research articles on all world regions, and is open to all theoretical and
methodological approaches.
Editorial Collective: Peter Andreas, Political Science/Watson Institute; Katrina
Burgess, Tufts University/Watson Institute; Melani Cammett ’91, Political
Science; Linda Cook, Political Science; Patrick Heller, Sociology; José Itzigsohn,
Sociology; Pauline Jones Luong, Political Science; Marsha Pripstein Posusney,
Bryant University/Watson Institute; Simone Pulver, Watson Institute; Dietrich
Rueschemeyer, Watson Institute; Marilyn Rueschemeyer, RISD/Watson Institute;
Richard Snyder, Political Science; Barbara Stallings; and Kay Warren, Watson
Institute/Anthropology.
Editorial Staff: Frederick F. Fullerton, Managing Editor, and Daniel Schensul and
Matthias vom Hau, Graduate Student Editorial Associates and doctoral candidates,
Sociology.
GLOBALIZATION AND LABOR IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Barbara Stallings, Principal Investigator
This project focuses on an issue that has become prominent on the
international agenda as globalization’s defenders and detractors have focused
on the allocation of the benefits resulting from new trends in trade, capital
flows, and migration. While proponents argue that many in developing
countries will be better off because of faster growth, critics believe that only
a few will be able to take advantage of new opportunities and the majority
will fall further behind. In December 2004, a broad group of researchers
from academia and the policy world assembled for a public conference,
which was funded by the Ford Foundation. The conference papers will form
the core of an edited volume that analyzes globalization and labor trends in
Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
Working Group: Barbara Stallings; Katrina Burgess, Tufts University/Watson
Institute; Melani Cammett ’91, Political Science; Linda Cook, Political Science;
and Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University/Watson Institute.
The purpose of this project is to explore the extent and impact of aid
programs designed to support private-sector development in Asia, Africa,
Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The project focuses on three specific
types of assistance: enterprise funds, equity funds, and capacity-building
activities by NGOs. The project assesses the scope of these programs
by the United States and other aid-giving governments and international
organizations. It derives policy recommendations about how U.S. bilateral
aid could better strengthen the private sector in developing and transition
countries.
Researchers: Carol Lancaster, Georgetown University; Kwaku Nuamah and
Matthew Lieber, Watson Institute.
FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT: LATIN
AMERICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Barbara Stallings, Principal Investigator
In collaboration with colleagues at the UN Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Development
Bank, Barbara Stallings recently completed a book on changes in the
financial sector in Latin America since the early 1990s, plus the impact on
finance for investment and access to finance for small firms. The project
also includes a component comparing Latin American experiences with
those of countries in East Asia. In early 2005, a seminar was held at ECLAC
headquarters in Santiago, Chile, to discuss the book manuscript; it will be
published in English and Spanish in late 2005 or early 2006.
DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTAL STATES
Patrick Heller and Richard Sandbrook, University of Toronto, Principal
Co-investigators
This research initiative considers a perplexing dilemma in the development
field: Are developing countries able to reconcile equity and democracy with
economic growth in an increasingly integrated global economy? Patrick
Heller, an associate professor of sociology and director of the Development
Studies Program, and Richard Sandbrook of the University of Toronto,
along with two other colleagues, have developed a study that explores the
developmental trajectories and challenges of four cases—Chile, Costa Rica,
the Indian state of Kerala, and Mauritius—all notable for their achievements
in social development. The initiatives have two objectives: to understand the
historical circumstances that shaped these successes, including institutions,
social configurations of power, and political actors involved; and to examine
how effectively these states have managed the pressures of globalization.
The project organized two workshops at the Watson Institute and the Munk
Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, to hone crosscutting
themes for a collective volume.
Other Researchers: Barbara Stallings; Melani Cammett ’91, Political Science;
Linda Cook, Political Science; José Itzigsohn, Sociology; James Mahoney,
Sociology; Judith Teichman, University of Toronto; Marc Edelman, Graduate
Center of the City University of New York.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP ON
ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
David N. Weil, Economics, and Barbara Stallings, Coordinators
This joint venture between the Watson Institute and Brown University’s
Economics Department brings to campus distinguished scholars and
practitioners interested in economic growth, its causes, and its impacts. The
visitors spend one to two weeks on campus giving lectures and meeting
with faculty and students. During the past two years, the lectureship has
hosted two guests. Kenneth Sokoloff of the University of California at
Los Angeles, an expert on technological change, education, and factor
endowments, inaugurated the program. William Easterly of New York
University, a specialist in the analysis of economic growth in developing
countries, was the program’s second visitor.
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EAST ASIA
Barbara Stallings, Principal Investigator
A series of research activities is being organized in cooperation with the
Brown-Brandeis Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Studies
Center. The first workshop, “The New Democracy in South Korea,” was held
in February 2004 in conjunction with the Watson Institute’s annual Chong
Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture. Two postdoctoral
fellows from East Asia were in residence during 2004–2005. Jae Ku works
on the politics of East Asia in general and the Koreas in particular. Yong
Wook Lee works mainly on East Asian regionalism and relations between
Japan and East Asia.
EFFECTIVE AND DEFECTIVE STATES
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Convenor
This working group has been exploring the role of states in social and
economic development. Since 2001, the group’s aim has been to gain
insights that would be valuable to regions of the world where state
functioning has been most problematic. Its work combines broad historical
examinations of “state making” with crossnational statistical studies and
theoretical modeling. In 2003, the group sponsored a conference on “States
and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance,”
featuring scholars from Brown and nationwide. The revised papers from
this conference are being published in a book co-edited by Dietrich
Rueschemeyer and Matthew Lange of McGill University, titled States
Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance, which is
appearing in the series Political Evolution and Institutional Change, edited
by Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo (Palgrave/Macmillan).
Working Group: Linda Cook, Political Science; Abbott Gleason, History/
Watson Institute; Patrick Heller, Sociology/Development Studies; José Itzigsohn,
Sociology; James Mahoney, Sociology; Louis Putterman, Economics; and Peter
Uvin, Institute of Human Security, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University.
ABOVE:
THE FIRST GPD STUDENTS REBECCA
PETERS (STANDING), DOCTORAL PROGRAM
IN ANTHROPOLOGY, AND MARY (MOLLY)
WALLACE (SEATED), DOCTORAL PROGRAM
IN POLITICAL SCIENCE.
LEFT:
L–R: CAROL LANCASTER AND
BARBARA STALLINGS
RIGHT:
PATRICK HELLER
L–R:
JAE KU
YONG WOOK LEE
KWAKU NUAMAH
DIETRICH RUESCHEMEYER
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POLITICS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY
WATSON PROGRAMS
This multidisciplinary program employs qualitative modes of analysis and multisited
field research to capture the dynamics of political events and social practices
throughout the world, whether they involve disenfranchised community groups
or global powers and major transnational organizations.
PROJECTS
INTRODUCTION
Just as identity is fluid, constructed, and politicized, so too are international norms, policies, and crises. In this
vein, when the Watson Institute reorganized its programmatic structure nine years ago, it recognized a distinct
research domain—the Politics, Culture, and Identity (PCI) Program—to address crosscutting issues of identity
and politics.
Our program’s core faculty is drawn to innovative and broad research framings that combine issues and
perspectives from anthropology, politics, political theory, and history. We strive to transform our work into
activities that promote multidirectional and polycentric views of the world, meaning that we seek research
framings that involve different kinds of crossregional and comparative studies rather than relying on Europe- and
American-centric considerations of globalization and transnationalism.
The PCI Program attempts to move beyond normative statements, generalizations, and aggregate data to give voice
to actor-centered views of the dynamics of social conflict and change. We analyze international organizations,
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), states, institutions, social movements, and communities—their
practices, impacts, and discourses of continuity and change—in their wider regional and historical contexts.
We are interested in how actors within these organizations produce, disseminate, and reappropriate knowledge,
especially around issues of power and inequality.
Currently, we are engaged in several crosscutting initiatives that exemplify this approach. First, program
researchers are examining the multiple histories of democracy and the marketing strategies used by the foreign
aid industry to promote their ideas. Next, we are studying strategies for solving global problems, focusing on
state responses to these problems and the pressures actors face to conform to global norms. Additionally, we
are working on the theme of transnationalism and empire by looking at contemporary patterns of warfare and
peacemaking.
Central to PCI’s mission is the dissemination of our research findings to colleagues and the policy community
worldwide. We echo a major goal of the Watson Institute—to build international research networks with scholars
and practitioners who become vital collaborators to our research initiatives. Each PCI faculty member is actively
engaged with international institutions, among them, the World Bank, U.S. State Department, U.S. Agency for
International Development, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Swedish Development Agency, and
a variety of NGOs.
In January 2005, along with the Institute’s Political Economy and Development Program, we were centrally
involved in two panels at the United Nations Development Programme’s Third Forum on Human Development
in Paris. These meetings brought together nearly 80 internationally recognized experts to discuss different
dimensions of inequality and the dynamics of economic globalization.
The PCI Program is proving that field research and ethnographic methods have moved beyond the study of
individual cultures and societies as homogeneous entities. Rather, we actively examine how alternatives for
change are debated by groups representing different interests and how new patterns of globalization and empire
bear on the fate of world regions and whole groups of people. We use the best methods of anthropology along
with those of history and politics to unravel the ongoing dynamics of human suffering and to seek positive
change.
Kay Warren, Director
REMAKING TRANSNATIONALISM:
JAPAN, FOREIGN AID, AND THE SEARCH
FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
Kay Warren, Principal Investigator
Kay Warren, a cultural anthropologist and Latin Americanist, and her
collaborator, David Leheny, a political scientist and Japan scholar at the
University of Wisconsin, have created a multinational research network
focusing on the theme “Remaking Transnationalism: Japan, Foreign
Aid, and the Search for Global Solutions.” This grows out of another of
Warren’s initiatives—“Foreign Aid in Latin America: Japanese, European,
and American Social Development Initiatives and Practices.” “Remaking
Transnationalism” examines Japan’s quest for global development solutions;
how that country produces knowledge about Latin American, African, and
East Asian conditions; and how that knowledge in dialogue with other major
donors shapes its development interventions. Further, the research network
considers how the powerful currents of transnationalism influence Japan’s
experience of the world at home.
The project has brought together an international research group, comprised
of political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, legal
scholars, and Japanese and U.S. development professionals, who have wide
experience as practitioners. Individual researchers are working on a variety
of topics, such as growth-oriented aid to Vietnam and Kenya, environmental
projects and transnational pollution in Asia, Japanese Official Development
Assistance (ODA) policy toward China, educational interventions and
gender focused projects in Afghanistan, comparative studies of donors’
HIV/ AIDS practices in India, and poverty alleviation efforts and political
realities in Bolivia. Members of the group are also examining how waves
of transnationalism flow back into Japan’s shores to challenge the country’s
domestic policies on refugees, human trafficking, and national security in
the age of terrorism.
In February 2005, the project held a three-day conference during which all
the participants presented their work for wider discussion. The final versions
of these essays will be presented at a conference in Japan in February 2006
and then published in English and Japanese shortly thereafter. The project is
funded by the Center for Global Partnership of the Abe Foundation in Japan
and the Social Science Research Council in New York.
Other Collaborator: David Leheny, University of Wisconsin.
THE ENDING OF WAR: ARGUMENTS
AND STRATEGIES OF GLOBAL PEACE
MOVEMENTS PROJECT
Catherine Lutz and Neta C. Crawford ’85, Principal Co-investigators
This project considers the history and ethnography of global peace
movements, specifically antiwar activism. Professor of Anthropology and
International Relations Catherine Lutz and Associate Professor (Research)
Neta C. Crawford ’85 are producing a study that focuses on these
movements’ diverse arguments and the kinds of traction or groundswell
these movements have had in mass publics or particularly targeted audiences
or other governments.
Lutz and Crawford intend to examine the nature and effect of antiwar
activism over a 120-year period. Among the many questions they are
considering: What varieties of arguments have peace movement activists
made about the path to the abolition of war? How is the work of these social
movements related to the institutional innovations of the twentieth century,
such as arms control, mediation, and security communities? How have
emerging forms of warfare, such as humanitarian intervention, information
war, or disarmament wars affected the arguments against war?
Currently, they are working with a cohort of scholars—all experts in the
study of social movements around the world—to share research agendas
on contemporary peace and other social movements, methodological
approaches, and perspectives on understudied areas of the field.
THE PCI PROGRAM ATTEMPTS TO MOVE BEYOND NORMATIVE
STATEMENTS, GENERALIZATIONS, AND AGGREGATE DATA TO
GIVE VOICE TO ACTOR-CENTERED VIEWS OF THE DYNAMICS
OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AND CHANGE.
ABOVE:
PARTICIPANTS FROM THE “REMAKING
TRANSNATIONALISM” CONFERENCE.
ORGANIZERS DAVID LEHENY AND KAY
WARREN ARE IN THE FRONT ROW, SITTING
LEFT AND CENTER, RESPECTIVELY.
L–R:
CATHERINE LUTZ
NETA C. CRAWFORD ’85
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POLITICS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY
WATSON PROGRAMS
TERRORIST TRANSFORMATIONS:
IMRO AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE
Keith Brown, Principal Investigator
U.S. MILITARY BASES AND GLOBAL
RESPONSE PROJECT
Catherine Lutz, Principal Investigator
Catherine Lutz examines two types of contemporary globalisms that are
increasingly interconnected, crisis generated, and change generating:
a vast global network of U.S. military installations, and small groups of
activists and their supporters critical of the installations’ often harmful
impact on surrounding communities of people, sovereignty claims, political
economies, and environments.
The project goals are to understand these social movements, which first came
together in a truly global way in 2003, and their various ideological underpinnings.
This study focuses on three points. First, it asks how powerful and
differently conceptualized social movements have arisen to challenge U.S.
bases in at least four areas—South Korea, Okinawa, Guam, and the Philippines.
Next, the project looks at the regional impact of those installations,
particularly in relation to gender issues including prostitution, rape and other
violence against women, and female labor force participation and wage
rates. Finally, it analyzes the U.S. military’s changing basing strategy and
configuration, which recently has undergone its most radical transformation
since World War II.
During 2004–2005, Lutz conducted fieldwork in Guam, Korea, and the
Philippines and organized an international conference with scholaractivists
on the antibases movement, with papers to be published as a book.
Additionally, she is working on a single-authored book on this subject.
MUABET—LOCAL DIMENSIONS OF
SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY-BUILDING
Keith Brown, Principal Investigator
Since the mid-1990s, the international community has invested time, energy,
and resources to promote democracy in socialist Yugoslavia’s successor
states. Alongside initiatives directed at political party development, rule
of law reform, and the domestic nongovernmental (NGO) sector, foreign
agencies have funded community action programs to renovate schools,
access clean water, promote small businesses, and improve communication
infrastructure. Activities that could be seen as development or reconstruction
are heralded as ways to empower citizens, invigorate civil society, and build
pathways of democratic participation.
Now, 10 years after the landmark Dayton Agreement, which ended the
armed conflict in Bosnia, international donors are asking whether these
programs work. In cooperation with practitioners and local academics, the
Muabet Project seeks to document the effects of different approaches to
democracy building and to develop assessment techniques to help guide
future initiatives, in the Balkans and elsewhere. Since 2001, the project
has conducted research on specific civil society initiatives in Macedonia,
Kosovo, Vojvodina, and Serbia proper. It has also organized workshops in
Serbia, Montenegro, and at Brown University to explore the concrete, local
consequences of high-profile international projects such as the USAID’s
Community Revitalization through Democratic Action, which is a current
model for Iraqi assistance.
In 2004–2005, the project received continuation funding from the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to conduct
research and training on monitoring and evaluation issues. In June and
July 2005, the project organized a two-week workshop held in Ohrid,
Macedonia, in collaboration with Belgrade’s Jefferson Institute and
Skopje’s Eurobalkan Institute. The program brought together scholars and
practitioners of democracy promotion from the United States and Europe,
including Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Britain,
Italy, and Denmark. Further meetings are planned for 2005–2006 to be held
in Belgrade and Pristina.
An edited volume is in final preparation and is titled “Transacting Transition:
The Micropolitics of Democracy Promotion in the Former Yugoslavia”
(under contract with Kumarian Press). The volume is composed of
reflective essays by internationals directly involved on the ground in the
much-debated practice of building, exporting, or fabricating democracy on
short-term contracts, and draws mainly on contributors to a 2003 workshop
at the Watson Institute.
For more information about the Muabet Project, visit www.muabet.org.
Project Team: Keith Brown, Watson Institute; Chip Gagnon, Ithaca College; Aaron
Presnall, Jefferson Institute, Belgrade.
This project examines the structures of loyalty and the struggles over
ideology in twentieth-century Balkan political history through a series of
linked analyses. In the first part of the century, the Internal Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) earned a reputation as the ultimate
terror network. Drawing on new technologies of destruction in tandem with
traditionally-based methods of recruitment and organization, and operating
across national frontiers, IMRO’s career in the international spotlight
reached its apex in 1934 when an operative working with the Croatian
Ustashe movement assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Foreign
Minister Barthou of France in Marseille.
The assassination, captured on newsreel and watched around the world,
prompted the League of Nations to convene a working group to combat
international terrorism, which issued a joint policy statement in 1937. The
militant unilateralism of Germany, Italy, and Japan ensured that this policy
was never enacted. Policies of divide-and-rule by individual great powers
also ensured that attempts at cooperation against international terrorist
groups by Bulgarian, Yugoslav, and other authorities were also stymied.
Yet, while violence was aided and abetted from the “top-down” in the
international system of sovereign states, IMRO and Ustashe found their
methods rejected by the ordinary people in whose names they claimed to
operate. Macedonians at home and abroad, once willing to support armed
means of independence struggle, increasingly turned away from terrorist
methods and shifted their political activism into other, peaceful modes. In
North America in particular, the Macedonian Political Organization (MPO),
once stalwart backer of IMRO, responded to its members’ concerns and
focused on lobbying and, together with strong local church organizations,
welfare and cultural issues.
The project examines IMRO’s early history, the Marseille assassinations, and
the evolution of activism among Macedonian migrants in North America.
In addition, the long arc of IMRO’s 40-year evolution—from a Christian
national liberation movement in the Ottoman Empire, to a transnational
terror network seeking to change state frontiers—offers lessons of wider
relevance for understanding terrorist violence and ways to combat it.
Keith Brown, assistant professor (research), has been disseminating the
project’s research in various ways. In the fall of 2004, he gave a series
of lectures titled “The Structure of Loyalty in Revolutionary Macedonia”
for the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford University.
He also received for 2005–2006 a University of Connecticut Humanities
Institute Residential Fellowship (funded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities) to work on a book project tentatively titled “Manifest
Loyalties: The Routes of Modern Nationalism.” Finally, a website, “Murder
in Marseille,” is currently in the final stages of writing and design, in
collaboration with Brown’s Scholarly Technology Group. It focuses on
the background, representations, and repercussions of King Alexander of
Yugoslavia’s assassination by IMRO and the Ustashe, with foreign backing,
in 1934.
BORDERLANDS: ETHNICITY, IDENTITY,
AND VIOLENCE IN THE SHATTER-ZONE
OF EMPIRES SINCE 1848
Omer Bartov, History, Principal Investigator
The main goal of the project is to investigate interethnic relations in the
areas of Eastern Europe that formed the meeting point of the four great
empires of Russia, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottomans, stretching
from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. “Borderlands”
focuses on the impact of nationalism, war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide
on a territory that was known for its great ethnic, religious, and cultural
diversity at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and became the site
of unprecedented violence in the twentieth century. This violence was the
result of both outside intervention and local conflicts. World War II and its
aftermath saw the redefinition of the region’s political identity and a drastic
transformation of its demography, whose most obvious consequence was
the creation of largely homogeneous sociopolitical entities.
The project aims to uncover the reasons for this outburst of violence and how
different communities living in Europe’s eastern borderlands responded to
this tremendous upheaval. It also seeks to provide lessons for the present
and the future concerning the viability of interethnic communities and the
perils, as well as potentials, of ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity in
our contemporary world. The researchers examine this complex period
from four distinct but related themes: local perspectives; state involvement;
transnational developments; and ritual, symbolism, and identity.
In 2004–2005, the project ran 10 seminars with visiting scholars at the Watson
Institute, and it held a workshop in May 2005 with another 15 major
scholars writing on issues relevant to the project. Simultaneously, the
project maintained its links with other institutes affiliated with it. This included
workshops in the fall of 2004 held at the University of Minnesota,
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University
of Leipzig, Germany, and Institute d’Histoire du Temps Présent in Paris,
France. Additionally, the project began preparations for a series of workshops
to be held over the next two years at the University of Tübingen and
Stanford University in the spring of 2006, and a final conference for the
project at the University of Marburg, Germany, in the spring of 2007.
The project will culminate in a book, perhaps two, of the best papers
presented during the duration of the project along with a comprehensive
introductory essay that will outline the benefits of applying the concept of
borderlands as a research paradigm in the social sciences.
Other Researchers: Patrice Dabrowski, Watson Institute.
ABOVE:
SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR, THE FORMER
DIRECTOR OF THE UNDP’S HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, ATTENDED
THE FEBRUARY 2005 “REMAKING
TRANSNATIONALISM” CONFERENCE.
LEFT:
KEITH BROWN
IN THE SUMMER OF 2005, THE
MUABET PROJECT ORGANIZED
A TWO-WEEK WORKSHOP HELD
IN OHRID, MACEDONIA, THAT
BROUGHT TOGETHER SCHOLARS
AND PRACTITIONERS OF
DEMOCRACY PROMOTION.
L–R:
PATRICE DABROWSKI
OMER BARTOV
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CROSSCUTTING INITIATIVES
WATSON PROGRAMS
A growing number of Watson Institute research projects span more than one
programmatic theme. This area identifies those initiatives that cut across traditional
disciplinary boundaries to explore critical issues in international studies.
PROJECTS
CULTURAL AWARENESS
AND THE MILITARY
Keith Brown and Catherine Lutz, Politics, Culture, and Identity
Program, and James Der Derian, Global Security Program,
Principal Co-investigators
In a range of deployments since the early 1990s—Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo,
and now Iraq—the U.S. military has been tasked with making peace as well
as waging war and has been coming to terms with the importance of culture.
Since 2003, the U.S. media has reported on “cultural sensitivity training”
given to troops before deployment to Iraq. And, some high-ranking military
and congressional leaders have identified a “culture gap” in U.S. military
capacity and began to advocate various tactics to address a commitment to
understanding “cultural terrain.”
All this raises questions for social scientists concerned with the use (and
potential abuse) of the concept of “culture” by U.S. policymakers. In 2004,
the Politics, Culture and Identity Program launched a project with the Global
Security Program, which set out to investigate the ethical and practical
issues raised by the military’s quest for greater cultural awareness.
In collaboration with the Pell Center for International Studies at Salve Regina
University, a workshop was held in December 2004, titled “Prepared for
Peace?: The Use and Abuse of ‘Culture’ in Military Simulations, Training,
and Education,” which brought together social scientists and current serving
military personnel. U.S. Senator Jack Reed (RI) opened the event just after
returning from fact-finding trip to Iraq. The workshop sought to draw
lessons from participants’ experiences in diverse cultural milieus, especially
in the Balkans and Iraq, concentrating on training, education, and the use
of simulations in operational environments. Plans are being finalized for
another workshop in December 2005, which will link directly to a published
book and possibly a short documentary.
GLOBAL MEDIA PROJECT (GMP)
James Der Derian, Principal Investigator
In 2005, the Global Security Program initiated this new crosscutting research
initiative that intends to amplify the visibility and influence of Watson
Institute research through the production and distribution of public interest
media projects. GMP aims to provide critical media analysis, expertise,
and funding for these works, which will address and reframe urgent global
problems and strengthen public interest in media worldwide.
The project began planning for an October 2005 workshop to establish
benchmarks for what constitutes excellence, efficacy, and engagement
in the analysis and production of public global media. Long-range goals
include producing documentaries on topics that tap the Institute’s faculty
expertise and creating a spring 2006 seminar that will teach an international
studies approach to media analysis and production.
Another key component of the project is a collaboration between the project
team and Visiting Senior Fellow Christopher Lydon of public radio’s “Open
Source Radio.” Lydon draws on Watson faculty and visitor expertise
as a resource for the show’s programming, including the latest trends in
international affairs, possible guests, and opportunities to bring new voices
and methods to how international issues are dealt with on the air.
The project plans to build relationships with international funding
agencies to strengthen independent public media worldwide by developing
international studies training programs and sponsoring visiting programs
for independent media producers in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America,
and South Asia.
INTERNATIONAL WRITERS PROJECT (IWP)
Robert Coover, Literacy Arts Program, and Geoffrey Kirkman ’91,
Principal Co-investigators
More than a third of the world’s population lives in countries where freedom
of the press and creative expression are actively hindered. This project
makes available to an international writer, who works in fiction, drama, or
poetry, a one-year residency to practice his or her craft in safety within a
supportive environment. Each year the project hosts a festival highlighting
the particular national artistic and political identity of the resident writer.
In 2004–2005, Congolese playwright and novelist Pierre Mumbere
Mujomba became the second International Writers Project Fellow. The
author of seven plays and a novel, Mujomba’s conflict with the Congolese
government began in January 2003, after the performance in Kinshasa of
his play, The Last Envelope, which revealed the excesses of the Mobutu
regime. Shortly after this, Mujomba was targeted by death squads, and with
the intervention of PEN International, he left the Congo.
Although most of his work is not yet available in English, The Last Envelope
was translated and performed in New York in 2002 by the Lark Theatre
Company. It won the Le Grand Prix at the Prix Nemis in Chile in 1988 and
the Decouverte RFI Theatre Sud Prize in 1999.
As part of Mujomba’s IWP fellowship, he participated in Brown’s Second
Annual Africana Film Festival in April, which featured a panel on Congolese
artists and scholars titled “Writing for Theatre and Screen in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.” During the year, Mujomba also participated in other
readings and events at Brown, such as a symposium on his own work
organized by the Africana Studies Department.
The project is a partnership between Brown’s Literary Arts Program and the
Watson Institute, where the fellow is in residence during the academic year.
The William H. Donner Foundation funds the initiative.
MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAMIC INITIATIVES
For nine years, Brown University faculty, adjunct scholars, and visitors
have presented research on the history, politics, and culture of Middle East
and Islamic societies through conferences, seminars, and research activities
because of this Watson Institute initiative. Research topics have included
identity formation and citizenship, self-determination, preventing ethnic
conflict, and Islamic art and architecture.
Among the activities supported in 2004–2005 were a public lecture by
Irshad Manji, author of the international bestseller The Trouble with Islam:
A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith; a performance by Palestinian-
American poet Suheir Hammad, author of Born Palestinian, Born Black;
and a public concert by world-renowned Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor
on the kamancheh, followed by a lecture titled “A Discussion of Persian
Classical Music.”
GLOBAL ETHICS
Neta Crawford ’85, Principal Investigator
This project makes ethical aspects of world politics explicit and prominent.
It seeks to support a cohort of scholars from different Brown departments
who can articulate and promote normative concerns, and to increase public
attention and understanding about the ethical dimensions of global issues.
In 2004–2005, the series addressed the questions of responsibility and
response to historical injustices, ranging from slavery, internment, systematic
rape, torture, to genocide. Using multidisciplinary lenses, the seminars look
at individual, institutional, intergenerational responsibility, and different
forms of redress. The main impetus for this theme was the examination of
Brown University’s role in the slave trade and slavery.
The topics covered included “Three Cases of Responding to Historical
Injustice: The Holocaust, Japanese-American Internment, and Japanese
War Museums”; “Psychological Perspectives on Historical Injustice/What
Happens to Victims and Perpetrators and What Should Happen to Them?”;
“Finding and Fixing Institutional and Individual Responsibility”; “The Law
and Politics of Reparations for Human Rights Abuses”; “Responses and
Responsibility for Bombing Japan”; and “Therapeutic Interventions in War/
Bearing Witness and the Practice of Reconciliation in Christian Thought: A
Critical Reading from the Perspective of Trauma Theory.”
The faculty seminar was co-sponsored by the Wayland Collegium,
Committee on Slavery and Justice, and Watson Institute.
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Two Watson Institute visiting senior fellows are researching and writing
about democracy and human rights in their respective countries. Former
President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya joined the institute in the spring of
2005 to work on a book about Burundi’s peace and democratic processes
during the post-civil war period. Currently he’s engaged in work studying
reconciliation and power sharing in his country, as the president of the
Foundation for Unity, Peace, and Democracy.
Since December 2002, Xu Wenli has been researching and teaching about
democratic transitions and the establishment of human rights regimes,
especially in China. A leader of the Chinese Democracy Wall movement and
one of the founders of the China Democracy Party’s Beijing-Tianjin branch,
Xu was imprisoned for his political activities. This year, he completed work
on Letters from the Inside—a second volume to My Self-Defense—which is
based in part on his many years of confinement in prison. Additionally, he
is writing a memoir with his spouse, He Xintong, about their experiences
during his imprisonment and her house arrest. At Brown, Xu teaches an
undergraduate seminar in Mandarin titled “The Chinese Democracy Wall
and the Chinese Democratic Party.”
STUDIES IN RUSSIAN/SOVIET HISTORY
Two leading Russian/Soviet historians—Abbott Gleason, a senior fellow,
and Patricia Herlihy, a professor (research)—have each conducted
research or developed publication projects in 2004–2005. Gleason, an
expert on the Soviet period and totalitarianism, published his co-edited
volume On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future. He continues
as the primary editor for Blackwell’s forthcoming Companion to Russian
History and is working on a festschrift to honor Andrzej Walicki, a noted
expert on Russian and Polish history.
Herlihy is currently writing a biography of Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890),
who served in the U.S. Foreign Service as consul in Russia, Turkey,
Romania, Greece, Serbia, Britain, Italy, and Egypt. She is examining
Schuyler, who co-authored the Bulgarian 1876 Constitution, within the
context of nineteenth-century international relations. An expert on the
history of Odessa, Herlihy published in 2004 “Port Jews of Odessa and
Trieste: A Tale of Two Cities” in Yearbook 2003.
STUDIES IN AFRICAN
CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS
Newell M. Stultz, a Brown faculty emeritus, is involved in research on
the political process in African countries, specifically parliaments and/or
parliamentary elections in South Africa, Kenya, Tanganyika, and the Central
African Federation, the last two during the period before independence. Most
recently, he has analyzed the current constitutions of 14 “Anglo-African”
states presently led by presidents to determine if contemporary “African
presidentialism” is distinctive institutionally as well as geographically and,
if so, what are the likely political consequences of that fact.
ABOVE:
CATHERINE LUTZ (CENTER) CHATS WITH
ROLF WILLY HANSEN OF NORWAY’S
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT THE
“PREPARED FOR PEACE?” WORKSHOP.
KEITH BROWN SITS TO THE LEFT OF LUTZ.
L–R:
PIERRE MUMBERE MUJOMBA
PATRICIA HERLIHY
L–R:
PIERRE BUYOYA
ABBOTT GLEASON
NEWELL M. STULTZ
XU WEN-LI
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CHOICES FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY EDUCATION
WATSON PROGRAMS
Choices is a multifaceted national education program designed to encourage
interest within the United States in international issues through teaching and
professional development at the secondary-school level.
INTRODUCTION
Since 9/11, the need for a savvy American public actively engaged in a public discourse on international affairs
has become more critical than ever. No longer can we live in isolation, unaware of our impact on the rest of the
world. For 17 years, the Choices for the 21 st Century Program has worked to increase international content in
the core curriculum of secondary schools nationwide, and we do this using an approach that teaches the skills
and habits of active and responsible citizenship. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of a more
informed and more engaged American public.
We address our mission in three ways: curriculum development, professional development with teachers, and
special projects with high school students. In all of these programs, we stress the importance of ideological
balance because students, particularly at this level, need to be engaged in a full range of viewpoints on global
issues, both contemporary and historical, as a foundation for developing informed opinions.
Because we are committed to engaging students in content-rich discussion of international issues, Choices
devotes considerable resources to incorporate the latest research findings into our work. In the development
of our curricular and professional development programs, we collaborate with faculty at the Watson Institute,
and with Brown faculty in departments such as Africana Studies, History, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies,
Economics, Political Science, Environmental Studies, and Comparative Literature. We also draw on experts
beyond Brown to consult on specific projects.
Additionally, we take the view that teaching is a profession that is best developed through peer leadership.
Therefore, we actively engage classroom teachers at all levels of our work. They are key players in the Choices
methodology contributing to the curriculum development process and then interacting with their peers as leaders
in professional development.
Choices’ teaching resources and methodology are in classrooms in every state nationwide because of our
partnerships with teachers, professional associations, civic organizations whose missions include international and
civic education, and state departments of education. Through the programs described here and our associations,
we will continue to contribute to secondary education by offering content-rich curricular resources and helping
students and teachers to hone the skills of informed deliberative dialogue.
Susan Graseck, Director
PROGRAM INITIATIVES
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Choices draws on the scholarly resources of the Watson Institute, Brown
University, and its own professional constituency of teachers to develop
course materials that challenge students to consider multiple perspectives
on current and historical international issues, identify the values that drive
contrasting perspectives, weigh the risks and trade-offs of alternative
policies, and articulate their own judgments that reflect their own values
and priorities.
Drawing from both contemporary and historical events, each teaching unit
developed focuses on a critical turning point in international public policy.
Working with these materials, students gain an understanding of the historical
background and the current status of the issue at hand. At the center of each
unit is a framework of alternative policy options that challenges students
to think critically about the issue. Under our “Teaching with the News”
program, we also develop web-based materials that connect the classroom
with world events and engage students in responsible deliberation on the
news of the day. Choices curriculum resources are currently used in more
than 7,500 secondary schools nationwide.
In the spring of 2005, Choices completed a new curriculum unit for U.S.
history courses focused on the slave trade and slavery in New England. A
Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England explores
the nature of the triangle trade and the extent of slavery in colonial and
antebellum New England. The curriculum also examines the effects of the
trade in slaves and of slavery itself on the new Americans in this period and
helps students understand how history and the telling of history influence
us today. Choices produced this unit in partnership with Brown’s Steering
Committee on Slavery and Justice. This relationship is ongoing as we make
plans for additional outreach to teachers in Rhode Island and nationwide.
The first program took place in June when, in collaboration with the
Rhode Island Historical Society and with the support of the Rhode Island
Department of Education, we offered a three-day teaching institute.
During 2004–2005, Choices published two additional curriculum units,
From Colony to Democracy: Considering Brazil’s Development and The
Russian Revolution, both funded by a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. In addition, the program revised 11 of its available
units; developed 3 new “Teaching with the News” online resources and
revised 2 others; and began new units on UN reform and the proliferation
of nuclear weapons, the latter funded by the Ploughshares Fund. We twice
revised Iraq: The Challenge of Securing the Peace, an online resource in
“Teaching with the News.” More than 7,000 classrooms across the country
used the Iraq material during 2004–2005.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR
SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
The Choices Program offers a variety of professional development
programs for secondary school teachers. More than 1,500 teachers from
across the country participated in one of the 90 professional development
programs offered during the 2004–2005 year, including introductory workshops,
half- and full-day in-service programs, multisession continuing
education courses, and longer teaching institutes. Since 1993, Choices has
brought leading teachers to Brown for an annual teaching institute; these
teachers then host workshops using Choices materials for peers in their own
regions.
Choices continued work this year on a three-year professional development
program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching
American History initiative that involves teachers in 15 districts in 8 states.
The program, “Critical Turning Points in the History of American Foreign
Policy,” seeks to strengthen secondary-level instruction in U.S. history and
to increase the international content in the core U.S. history curriculum. In
July 2004, teacher-leaders from each district came to Brown for the second
of three annual, eight-day summer institutes, and then represented the
program as they worked with peers in their schools and districts throughout
the year. The focus of the 2004 summer institute was the history and legacy
of the slave trade and slavery in New England (see left). The third annual
summer institute, which focused on the Vietnam War and its legacy, took
place at Brown in July 2005.
Choices is involved in a three-year effort working with the Indiana and
Maine Departments of Education and key international and civic education
organizations to integrate international education and civic engagement
into these states’ core curriculum and to establish a model for other states.
The program is funded by the Carnegie Corporation and associated with
the Civic Mission of Schools Campaign. During 2004–2005, extensive
professional development took place in each state with secondary-level
social studies teachers. Professional development was led by peer teachers
who were trained by Choices and engaged with key education leaders in
Indiana and Maine. In addition, Capitol Forum programs (see page 26) are
being established and institutionalized in both states.
Choices offered a five-day summer institute on world history at Brown in
July 2004. This was the culmination of a three-year curriculum development
initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and focused
on secondary-level world history. Following the institute, participating
teachers returned to their regions to lead professional development for their
peers.
the Choices Program works to increase international
content in the core curriculum of secondary schools
nationwide; we do this using an approach that teaches the
skills and habits of active and responsible citizenship.
IMAGES FROM THE CHOICES’
VIETNAM SUMMER INSTITUTE
LEFT:
KELLY KEOUGH,
A CHOICES LEAD TEACHER, WITH
TEACHER PARTICIPANTS.
RIGHT:
JAMES G. BLIGHT (LEFT) AND
JAMES HERSHBERG (RIGHT)
OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY, TWO SCHOLAR
EXPERTS FOR THE INSTITUTE.
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CHOICES FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY EDUCATION
INSTRUCTIONAL
THE WATSON INSTITUTE REALIZES ITS COMMITMENT TO EDUCATING THE NEXT
GENERATION OF GLOBAL LEADERS BY HOUSING FIVE ACADEMIC CONCENTRATIONS
IN ITS BUILDING; REQUIRING ITS FACULTY TO TEACH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SEMINARS; ORGANIZING NUMEROUS SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES OPEN TO ALL
STUDENTS; AND SPONSORING SEVERAL INTERNSHIPS FOR INTENSIVE RESEARCH
PROJECTS FOCUSING ON GLOBAL PROBLEMS (SEE PAGE 49).
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (IR) PROGRAM
Nina Tannenwald, Program Director; Claudia Elliott PhD’99,
Concentration Advisor and Director, IR Honors Program
CAPITOL FORUM ON AMERICA’S FUTURE
The Capitol Forum on America’s Future is a civic education initiative
designed to engage high school students in deliberation on current international
issues. The program involves students both within social studies
classrooms and beyond the classroom at their state capitols. Its centerpiece
is a one-day spring forum where 80 to 100 students from 20 schools in
each participating state come to their state capitol as class representatives.
The forum culminates with an open dialogue with elected officials and
policymakers.
The Capitol Forum begins each year with a national conference for lead
teachers and state organizers. More than 30 leaders gathered at Brown in
June 2005 for the opening conference, kicking off the 2005–2006 program.
In the fall, each state holds a professional development workshop for
teachers. Teachers then engage in classroom preparation and follow-up
within their regular courses. Nine states hosted the program in 2004–2005.
In each participating state, the Capitol Forum is a partnership among
Choices, the offices of the Secretary of State, and a statewide organization
that supports civic participation and youth development. In most states, the
state department of education is also a partner. The National Association
of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), National Council for the Social
Studies (NCSS), and National Association of Secretaries of States (NASS)
have endorsed the program, which has received funding from the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, the Longview Foundation, United States Institute
of Peace, and private donors.
U.S. ROLE IN THE WORLD:
YOUTH SPEAK OUT
During the summer and fall of 2004, the Choices Program developed several
initiatives to promote deliberation of American foreign policy issues among
high school students. The curriculum unit, The U.S Role in a Changing
World, which was funded by the Carnegie Corporation, provided the
foundation of this work and was used in classrooms nationwide. Drawing
on this work, the 2005 Capitol Forum focused on this same theme and a
“Teaching with the News” two-day lesson plan and online ballot was made
available.
Additionally, with support from the United Nations Foundation and the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Choices worked with The People Speak to
launch The People Speak Youth Circles, making available these teaching
resources to another 3,200 teachers. The Youth Circles program invited
America’s youth to join in a national conversation on the role of the United
States in the world during the fall of 2004. Its overarching program, The
People Speak, is a national grassroots initiative to engage Americans of all
ages in discussions on this topic.
Finally, drawing on these programs, Choices developed a report on students’
current views on U.S. foreign policy. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Chuck
Hagel (R-NE) and Congressmen Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Christopher
Shays (R-CT) distributed the report to their colleagues in Congress.
Funding for the Choices Program has come from a range of sources,
including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Longview Foundation,
National Endowment for the Humanities, Ploughshares Fund, Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, United Nations Foundation, and U.S. Department of
Education, as well as individual donors.
For more information about the Choices Program, visit www.choices.edu.
Choices Program Team: Daniela Bailey, 2005–2006 International Education
Intern; Andrew Blackadar, Curriculum Developer; William Bordac, Outreach
Coordinator; Dan Devine, Office Assistant; Susan Graseck, Director; Sarah Kreckel,
Curriculum Writer/Project Leader; Rebecca Leaphart, 2004–2005 International
Education Intern; Lucy Mueller, Professional Development Coordinator; Madeline
Otis, Program Associate; Anne Prout, Office Manager; Barbara Shema, Capitol
Forum Coordinator.
This multidisciplinary undergraduate concentration is among the largest at
Brown University, averaging nearly 400 students each year. It instructs on
international issues from a genuinely global perspective, rather than through
the narrow prism of national foreign policy. Watson Institute faculty and
visitors supply significant instructional support for the program.
In 2004–2005, the program offered 20 senior seminars. In May 2005, 138
seniors graduated from the international relations concentration—33 with
magna cum laude, 22 with honors, and 58 with double concentrations.
Several awards were given during the commencement ceremony, including
10 William Gaston Prizes for Academic Achievement. The other awards
for best theses and outstanding intellectual achievement were the Mark
and Betty Garrison Prize to Diana Dizon for “Constructing the National
Interest: The Case of the Philippines”; the Samuel Lamport Prize to
Alexandra Hartman for “A Veiled Threat: Ethno-Religious Mobilization
and the Culture of Fear in France” and Stephanie Morin for “The Price of
Peace: Sierra Leone’s Transitional Justice Model on Trial”; and the Anthony
Riccio Prize to William Huntington for “Seizing the Bomb: An Analysis of
Non-State Actor Nuclear Weapon Acquisition Scenarios.”
During the past year, the IR Program has continued to develop its website,
which enables IR concentrators to access the latest information about the
program. Launched in August 2004, the site provides updated, detailed
information on concentration requirements, track options, advising, credit
for study abroad, the honors program, career possibilities, and much more.
For more information about the IR Program, visit www.watsoninstitute.org/IR.
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (DS) PROGRAM
Patrick Heller, Program Director; Louis Putterman, Graduate Advisor
This program sponsors an undergraduate concentration and an MA degree.
The DS Program is designed to provide a comparative perspective on the
social, political, and economic dynamics of development at both the national
and international levels. All undergraduate concentrators are required to
complete a senior thesis.
In May 2005, 26 seniors graduated with a Development Studies
concentrations—17 with honors and 4 with the William Gaston Prize for
Academic Achievement—and 9 MAs. In tandem with the IR Program,
the DS Program developed and launched a comprehensive website for its
undergraduate concentrators and master’s students. For the fall of 2005, the
DS Program anticipates its largest class of seniors, totaling 37.
For more information about the DS Program, visit www.watsoninstitute.org/DS.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Julio Ortega, Acting Concentration Director;
R. Douglas Cope, Concentration Advisor
The concentration in Latin American Studies is designed to help students
develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the culture, history, and
contemporary problems in Latin America. Social, political, economic,
literary, and cultural factors combine to explain the Latin American societies
of today. Analysis of each of these factors stimulates students to consider
the methods of various disciplines and leads to an integrated knowledge of
these countries.
In 2005, 19 students received ABs in Latin American Studies—5 were
honors and 2 were magna cum laude. At the graduate level, three students
with a focus on Latin America completed doctoral degrees in affiliated
departments on campus, one in American Civilization, one in Political
Science, and one in Sociology. Five students received MA degrees for their
work on Latin America in the departments of Anthropology, Sociology,
and Social Studies. The Center also provided Tinker Field Research Grants
to 11 graduate students for predissertation research on Latin America (see
page 28).
For more information about CLAS, visit www.watsoninstitute.org/clas/.
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
Willian O. Beeman, Concentration Director [on leave 2004–2005]
The Middle East Studies concentration is designed to provide students
with a comprehensive and comparative study of the region, as well as an
appreciation for its variety of cultural interactions and influences. Several
approaches to the study of the region are possible and include social
science, religious studies, humanities, history, or a combination of these.
The program graduated 11 seniors in May 2005.
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
Concentrators in South Asian Studies emphasize one or several aspects
of this broad field. They may focus on a given chronological period (e.g.
ancient, medieval, early modern or contemporary), in a given geographical
area (e.g. Bangladesh, Bengal, Maharashtra, North India, Pakistan, South
India), or in a given discipline (e.g. anthropology, Hindi/Urdu, history,
religion, or Sanskrit).
ABOVE:
CHOICES CURRICULUM WRITER SARAH KRECKEL
AND RONALD LEVITSKY, A CHOICES LEAD TEACHER,
DURING THE VIETNAM SUMMER INSTITUTE.
LEFT:
A STUDENT RISES TO ADDRESS THE ILLINOIS CAPITOL
FORUM AT THE STATE HOUSE IN SPRINGFIELD.
L–R:
NINA TANNENWALD
CLAUDIA ELLIOTT PHD’99
RIGHT:
MIDDLE EAST CONCENTRATORS
DURING SENIOR CAPSTONE
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
IN MAY 2005.
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BROWN AFFILIATED CENTERS
WATSON PROGRAMS
OTHER AFFILIATED CENTERS,
PROGRAMS, AND DEPARTMENTS
THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS (OIP)
THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN
STUDIES (CLAS)
Julio Ortega, Acting Director
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), now in its nineteenth year,
has a core-teaching faculty at Brown University that includes 54 specialists
in Latin America. During 2004–2005, CLAS offered 79 courses related
to Latin America at the University. (2005 Commencement statistics are
available on page 27.)
Each year, CLAS hosts a number of visiting scholars, diplomats, and experts
from Latin American countries and the Caribbean. These individuals enrich
the program through their interaction with students and other faculty, their
teaching, and public presentations. For the past three years, Fernando
Henrique Cardoso, the former president of Brazil and a Brown University
professor-at-large, has had his offices in the William R. Rhodes ’57 Suite
at the Watson Institute. Each year, he spends a period of time at Brown
generously making himself available for a variety of lectures, symposia,
and interactions with students and faculty.
In addition, the Andrew Mellon/Craig M. Cogut ’75 Visiting Professorship
program has brought prominent scholars and diplomats to CLAS. The
program, which is funded by a Mellon Foundation challenge grant, makes
possible support for two semesters for visiting professors, two dissertation
fellowships, and the purchase of materials on Latin America for the
library.
During 2004–2005, the Cogut Visiting Professors of Latin American Studies
were René Antonio Mayorga of the Bolivian Center of Multidisciplinary
Studies; Ricardo V. Luna, a career diplomat and Peru’s former ambassador
to the United Nations and the U.S.; and Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro, a special
rapporteur on a study of violence against children for the UN’s secretarygeneral.
Two Cogut Dissertation Fellowships were awarded to graduate
students: Alexandra Montague of the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Department and Daniel Mejía of the Economics Department. Lastly, the
Cogut Fund supported a workshop titled “Turmoil in the Andes: Eroding
States and Fragile Democracies” in the spring of 2005.
Additionally in 2004–2005, CLAS awarded 10 Tinker Foundation grants to
support graduate students’ predissertation travel to Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. Through funds from Citigroup and Brown
University, academic resources are now being made available to visiting
Brazilian students each spring semester, who take one course for credit (in
International Relations, Economics, and related fields) and are also given
the opportunity to audit others. In the spring of 2005, Alessandra Sudbrack
de Fonseca from Porto Alegre and Rafael Porsani from São Paulo were in
residence.
Finally, CLAS received program support from the Hewlett Foundation this
past year. These funds were applied to library acquisitions and to support for
the Mesolore tm Project, an interactive instructional program on Mesoamerica
(www.mesolore.com). Research Associate Elizabeth Bakewell, who is the
project’s principal investigator, used these funds as seed money to secure
a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF funds will
facilitate creative classroom adoption of Mesolore tm and promote it as a
change agent for college pedagogy. The Hewlett Foundation and NSF
funds ensure that Mesolore tm will be widely adopted, improve the quality of
college education, and attract more Latinos, Native Americans, and women
into seeing the interconnectedness of science and humanities.
AFRICANA STUDIES
This department focuses on the Africana experience in the Americas and
beyond, and offers courses in the culture and society of the United States,
Brazil, the Caribbean, and various regions of Africa. Originally, named
the Afro-American Studies Program, the program was renamed Africana
Studies several years ago and given departmental status.
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
East Asian Studies coordinates at Brown all training in the languages and
cultures of East Asia—Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. A core faculty is
concerned primarily with language instruction, with affiliated Brown
faculty members teaching courses in the humanities and social sciences,
including history, political science, comparative literature, religious studies,
sociology, and the history of art.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
(IHI)
Now in its sixteenth year, the International Health Institute (IHI) focuses
its efforts on improving the health of the world’s population, especially in
developing countries, and fostering the exchange of expertise among health
professionals in the United States and the developing world.
JUDAIC STUDIES
This program serves as an interdisciplinary focus for the study of Jews
and Judaism, including historical, religious, sociological, political, and
philosophical perspectives and approaches. Its geographic focus is on Israel,
Latin America, the United States, and Western Europe.
This office serves the Brown community by providing undergraduates the
opportunity to study abroad, administering the University’s own programs
in other countries, and maintaining Brown’s agreements with universities
overseas by supporting faculty and student research and instructional
exchange visits. The office advises students studying abroad and works to
promote the internationalization of Brown’s curriculum.
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
See Instructional Programs, page 27.
THE POPULATION STUDIES AND
TRAINING CENTER
This interdisciplinary center, with core faculty from various departments
throughout the University, including Sociology, Economics, Anthropology,
Community Health, and Epidemiology, engages Brown faculty members
and researchers in social, economic, and anthropological demography, as
well as population health.
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES
This department concentrates on the global nature of the Portuguesespeaking
world, emphasizing continental and insular Portugal, Brazil,
Lusophone Africa, and Luso-America. Its programs use humanities and
social science skills to arrive at a deeper understanding of this community.
SLAVIC STUDIES
This concentration integrates the study of the languages, literatures, and
civilizations of the Slavic world. The department encourages students to
develop in-depth knowledge of East European civilizations and cultures,
which they interpret within a multidisciplinary course of study. Concentrators
are encouraged to study abroad in a Slavic country during the academic year
or summer months.
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
See Instructional Programs, page 27.
ABOVE:
JOSÉ AMOR Y VÁSQUEZ AND JULIO ORTEGA,
FORMER DIRECTOR AND ACTING DIRECTOR OF
THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES,
RESPECTIVELY.
LEFT:
L-R: RICHARD SNYDER, POLITICAL SCIENCE;
RICARDO V. LUNA; RENÉ ANTONIO MAYORGA;
AND MATTHEW C. GUTMANN, ANTHROPOLOGY.
ABOVE:
COGUT VISITING PROFESSOR PAULO
SÈRGIO PINHEIRO TALKS WITH STUDENTS
DURING A CLAS RECEPTION.
LEFT:
BROWN CITIGROUP STUDENTS
ALESSANDRA SUDBRACK DE FONSECA
(LEFT) AND RAFAEL PORSANI (RIGHT),
WITH SUSAN HIRSCH (CENTER), CLAS
ADMINISTRATIVE COORIDINATOR.
RIGHT:
R. DOUGLAS COPE
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WATSON FACULTY
Watson Institute faculty are prominent scholars and practictioners in their respective fields of study.
In recent years, Institute faculty have been named honorary or distinguished visiting professors at
the University of Tokyo, University of Stockholm, Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Ewha Womans
University in Seoul, and All Souls College and Nuffield College at Oxford University. Institute
faculty have been awarded the presidency of the American Ethnological Association, the International
Studies Association, the Manfred Wörner Medal (the highest civilian honor from Germany’s Defense
Ministry), the European Young Investigators Award, and the American Political Science Association’s
prize for best book on international history and politics.
In addition to numerous single-authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited books, faculty articles
have appeared in such prominent journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists, Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International
Security, International Studies Review, Global Governance, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Each year, new faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars enhance the intellectual life of the
Institute, offering skills in their respective fields that complement the research of Institute faculty
and informing undergraduate and graduate students through their teaching. Most important, they
encourage collegial relationships that are invaluable to any academic enterprise. During 2004–2005,
27 new visiting scholars and practitioners joined the Institute.
AN IRAQI WOMAN HOLDS UP HER HAND, AND SHOWS A PURPLE
FINGER, INDICATING SHE HAS JUST VOTED IN THE CENTRE
OF AZ ZUBAYR, SOUTHERN IRAQ, ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 30,
2005, DURING THAT COUNTRY’S FIRST FREE ELECTION IN A
HALF-CENTURY. THE WATSON INSTITUTE FACULTY ANALYZE
BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS, SUCH AS DEVELOPMENTS IN
IRAQ, AS WELL AS THE WORLD’S MOST CHRONIC PROBLEMS.
(AP PHOTO / ANDREW PARSONS / POOL)
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WATSON INSTITUTE FACULTY 2004–2005
WATSON FACULTY
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
FACULTY AND PRIMARY PROGRAM AFFILIATION
PROFESSOR-AT-LARGE
Fernando Henrique Cardoso PED, CC
Shirley Brice Heath Choices, CC
Thomas Biersteker
Director
Henry R. Luce Professor, Joint Watson Institute/Political Science
Geoffrey Kirkman ’91
Associate Director
Watson Fellow
Susan Graseck
Director, Choices for the 21 st Century Program
Senior Fellow
Steven Hamburg
Director, Global Environment Program
Ittelson Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Biology
Patrick Heller
Director, Development Studies Program
Associate Professor, Sociology
James Der Derian
Director, Global Security Program
Professor (Research)
Barbara Stallings
Director, Political Economy and Development Program
William R. Rhodes ’57 Research Professor
Nina Tannenwald
Director, International Relations Program
Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor
Kay Warren
Director (Spring 2005 [on leave Fall 2004]), Politics, Culture, and Identity Program
Charles B. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor in International Studies and Professor of
Anthropology and International Studies. Joint Watson Institute/Anthropology
Keith Brown
Acting Director (Fall 2004), Politics, Culture, and Identity Program
Assistant Professor (Research)
PROFESSOR (RESEARCH)
Thomas J. Biersteker Joint/Political Science, GS
James G. Blight GS
James Der Derian GS, CC
Patricia Herlihy CC
Catherine Lutz Joint/Anthropology, PCI, CC
Dietrich Rueschemeyer PED
Barbara Stallings PED
Kay Warren Joint/Anthropology
[on leave Fall 2004]), PCI
SENIOR FELLOW
Sue E. Eckert GS
Mark Garrison GS
Abbott Gleason GS, CC
Susan Graseck Choices
Catherine McArdle Kelleher GS
Sergei N. Khrushchev GS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
(RESEARCH)
Neta C. Crawford ’85 CC, PCI
WATSON FELLOW
Geoffrey Kirkman ’91 PED, CC
Richard E. Wetzler GE
Annick T. R. Wibben GS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
(RESEARCH)
Peter Andreas Joint/Political Science, GS
Keith Brown PCI, CC
Jarat Chopra [on leave 2004–2005], GS
Leiwen Jiang GE
Brian C. O’Neill [on leave 2004–2005], GE
Simone Pulver GE
Nina Tannenwald IR, GS
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Liza Bakewell CLAS
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Patrice Dabrowski PCI
Jae Ku PED
Yong Wook Lee PED
Kwaku Nuamah PED
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Claudia Elliott PhD’91 IR
VISITING FACULTY*
Cristiana Bastos Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies
Pierre Buyoya CC
Ruth Cardoso CLAS/Watson
Alberto R. Coll GS
Cornelius Friesendorf GS
Rafael Hassanova CC
Elizabeth Dean Hermann GE
Eun-Shik Kim GE
Charles Dennison Lane PCI
Ricardo V. Luna CLAS
Christopher Lydon CC
René Antonio Mayorga CLAS
Rosa Maria Perez Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies
Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro CLAS
Richard Polonsky GE
James F. Robinson GS
Zeev Rosenhek Sociology
Hengameh Saberi IR
Xu Wen-Li** CC
VISITING FELLOW*
Eleanor Doumato** CC
Miguel Glatzer PED
Sebastian Kaempf GS
Pierre Mumbere Mujomba IWP
Shahrnush Parsipour** IWP
VISITING SCHOLAR*
Jeff Albert ’92 GE
Kosta Barjaba PCI
Melissa Labonte GS
Teng-Chiu Lin GE
Mohammed Kombo Maalim GE
*Visiting faculty institutional affiliations are listed in
following section.
**Indicates ongoing visiting appointment.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Saleem Ali GE
University of Vermont
Hayward Alker GS
University of Southern California
Dominique Arel PCI
University of Ottawa
Douglas W. Blum GS
Providence College
Katrina Burgess PED
Tufts University
Susan E. Cook ’88 PCI
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Peter Dombrowski GS
U.S. Naval War College
Joshua Goldstein GS
American University
Jo-Anne Hart GS/ME
Lesley University
Christine A. Kearney PED
University of Oregon
janet M. Lang GS
Watson Institute
Stephen C. Lubkemann PCI
George Washington University
William F. S. Miles GS
Northeastern University
Linda B. Miller GS
Watson Institute; Wellesley College (ret.)
Marsha Pripstein Posusney PED
Bryant University
Marilyn Rueschemeyer PED
Rhode Island School of Design
J. Ann Tickner GS
University of South California
Peter Uvin GS
Fletcher School, Tufts University
BROWN FACULTY EMERITI
Thomas Skidmore CLAS
Newell Stultz CC
WATSON INSTITUTE FACULTY
FOR JULY 1, 2004–JUNE 30, 2005
ABBREVIATIONS
Development Studies Program DS
Center for Latin American Studies CLAS
Choices for the 21st Century Program Choices
Crosscutting Initiatives CC
Global Environment Program GE
Global Security Program GS
International Relations Program IR
International Writers Project IWP
Middle East Studies ME
Political Economy and Development PED
Politics, Culture, and Identity PCI
L–R;
FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO
SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH
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WATSON INSTITUTE FACULTY 2004–2005
WATSON FACULTY
NEW FACULTY, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS, AND VISITORS 2004–2005
NEW FACULTY
Yong Wook Lee joined the Watson Institute in the fall of 2004 as a
postdoctoral fellow in the Political Economy and Development Program.
Before coming to the Institute, Lee was a research scholar at the University
of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Sciences. His research interests involve
international relations theory, Asian regionalism, international relations
and comparative politics of Japan and Korea, and international migration
and societal (in) security issues. In addition to a manuscript underway, he
has published several articles on international relations of Japan and Korea
and Asian regionalism in such journals as International Studies Quarterly,
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Journal of Contemporary
Asia, Journal of East Asian Affairs, and Pacific Focus. Lee received his
PhD in international relations from the University of Southern California.
NEW VISITING SCHOLARS
Jeffrey Albert ’92, American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAA)/EPA Science Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;
Visiting Scholar, 2004–2005. Project: Middle East Environmental Futures
Project, Global Security Program.
Kosta Barjaba, Chief, Cabinet of Ministers, and Director, Department of
Migration, Albania; Visiting Scholar, Spring 2004. Project: Collaboration
with Keith Brown of the Politics, Culture, and Identity Program, and the
faculty of the Population Studies and Training Program.
Cristiana Bastos, Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon; Luso-American Foundation (FLAD) Visiting Assistant Professor
(Research), Fall 2004. Project: Research collaborations with Onèsimo
Almeida of the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, and the faculty of the
Watson Institute. Taught: “Power, Segregation, and Mobility under Late
Portuguese Colonialism and Its Aftermath,” Fall 2004.
Pierre Buyoya, the former President of Burundi; Visiting Senior Fellow
(Spring 2004). Project: Work on a book project about Burundi’s peace and
democratic processes.
Ruth Cardoso, President, “Comunidade Solidaria,” Brazil; Visiting Professor
(Research), Fall 2004. Project: Research on urban anthropology, social
movements, the “Third Sector.”
Alberto R. Coll, Dean, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War
College; Visiting Professor (Research), 2004–2005. Project: Research on
diplomacy, international law, legal and moral constraints on low-intensity
conflict. Taught: “Contemporary Issues in International Law,” Spring
2005.
Cornelius Friesendorf, Doctoral Candidate, University of Zurich; Visiting
Fellow, Spring 2005. Project: Continued work on his dissertation titled “A
World of Drugs: The Displacement of the Cocaine and Heroin Industry as a
Side Effect of U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Miguel A. Glatzer, Visiting Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design and
the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; Visiting Fellow, Fall 2004.
Project: Completion of book project on Globalization and the Future of
the Welfare State. Taught: “Thesis Writing in Development Studies,” Fall
2004.
Rafael Hassanov, Faculty Development Fellowship, Open Society Institute;
Visiting Associate Professor (Research), Spring 2005. Project: Civil society
formation in Islamic countries, social structure and social stratification, and
transformational processes and national security in Azerbaijan.
Elizabeth Dean Hermann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
and Architectural History, Rhode Island School of Design; Visiting Associate
Professor (Research), 2004–2005. Project: Work on rapid urban growth,
poverty, environmental infrastructures, particularly in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sebastian Kaempf, Doctoral Candidate, University of Wales at Aberystwyth;
Visiting Fellow, Fall 2004. Project: Strategic and ethical implications
of humanizing and non- and dehumanizing forms of violence, security, war,
strategy, and military culture.
Eun-Shik Kim, Professor of Ecology and Dendrology and Dean of the
College of Forest Sciences, Kookkmin University, Korea; Visiting Professor
(Research), Spring 2005. Project: Collaboration with Steven P. Hamburg
and the Global Environment Program on LTER/NEON, desertification and
restoration of degraded ecosystems.
Melissa Labonte, Doctoral Candidate, Brown University; Visiting Scholar,
2004–2005. Project: Role of humanitarian nonstate actors in influencing
strategies of armed humanitarian intervention in complex emergencies.
Charles Dennison Lane, Col. (ret.), U.S. Army Special Forces, and UN
Administrator for the Vucitrn/Vushtrri Municipality, Mitrovica, and Peje/
Pec Municipality, Kosovo; Visiting Senior Fellow, 2004–2005. Project:
Collaboration with Keith Brown on the Cultural Awareness and the Military
Project.
Teng-Chiu Lin, Professor, National Changhua University of Education;
Visiting Scholar, Summer 2004. Project: Collaboration with Steven P.
Hamburg on the structure and function of subtropical forests in Taiwan.
Ricardo V. Luna, the former Peruvian Ambassador to the United Nations
and the United States; Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies,
Spring 2005. Project: Research and instruction on bicultural approach to
the complex dynamics of inter-American relations. Taught: “U.S.-Latin
American Relations,” Spring 2005.
Christopher Lydon, NPR Radio Host, “Open Source Radio”; Visiting
Senior Fellow, Spring 2005. Project: Collaboration with Watson Institute
faculty on the Global Media Project.
Mohammed Kombo Maalim, Senior Laboratory Scientist, Institute of
Marine Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Visiting Scholar,
Fall 2004. Project: Collaboration with Steven P. Hamburg on environmental
science research initiatives.
René Antonio Mayorga, Political Scientist, the Bolivian Center of
Multidisciplinary Studies (CEBEM), La Paz, and Professor of Political
Science, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito,
Ecuador; Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, 2004–2005.
Project: Research and instruction on the contemporary political crisis in
the Andres and in collaboration with Richard Snyder (Political Science)
organized an April 2005 conference on this subject. Taught: “Crisis of
Democracy in the Andean Region,” Fall 2004, and “Social Movements,
State, and Democracy in the Andes,” Spring 2005.
Pierre Mumbere Mujomba, a Congolese playwright and novelist;
International Writers Project Fellow, 2004–2005 (see page 22).
Rosa Maria Perez, Professor of Anthropology, Superior Institute of Labor
and Enterprise Sciences (ISCTE); Luso-American Foundation (FLAD)
Visiting Professor (Research), Spring 2005. Project: Research collaboration
with Lina Fruzzetti (Anthropology) on a comparative analysis of British
and Portuguese colonialism and gender in India.
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, UN Special Rapporteur to study violence again
children globally; Member, Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights; Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, Spring 2005.
Project: Ongoing research for UN special rapporteurship and human rights
violations in Latin America. Taught: “The Struggle for Human Rights in
Brazil: Democracy without Citizenship,” Spring 2005.
Richard Polonsky, Principal, Innovation Works, Bethlehem, N.H.; Visiting
Senior Fellow, Spring 2005. Project: Research collaboration with Steven
P. Hamburg on climate and forestry issues, and product development and
project management services for nonprofit organizations, businesses, and
communities.
James F. Robinson, Professor, Department of International Studies,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM); Visiting Professor
(Research), 2004–2005. Project: Research for a project titled “Constituting
Sovereign Authority, Legitimating State Identity,” which examines the
process of reconstituting sovereignty in Mexico, a process also occurring
in other Third World states.
Zeev Rosenhek, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Hebrew University; Visiting Assistant Professor (Research), Fall 2004.
Project: Collaboration with José Itzigsohn (Sociology) on issues related
to globalization, migration regimes, social rights, immigration, and the
welfare state.
Hengameh Saberi, Candidate, Doctor of Juridical Science, Harvard Law
School; Visiting Assistant Professor (Research), Fall 2004. Project: Taught
“International Law,” Fall 2004.
Note: Visiting Senior Fellow Xu Wen-Li and Visiting Fellows Eleanor Doumato and
Shahrnush Parsipour hold ongoing appointments.
L–R:
ALBERTO R. COLL
L–R:
CHRISTOPHER LYDON
ELIZABETH DEAN HERMANN
RUTH CARDOSO
RICARDO V. LUNA
RENÉ ANTONIO MAYORGA
PIERRE BUYOYA
PAULO SÈRGIO PINHEIRO
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2004–2005
WATSON FACULTY
EACH YEAR, WATSON SCHOLARS, PUBLISH BOOKS, ARTICLES, RESEARCH REPORTS,
AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT AND ELECTRONIC FORMATS, ALL OF WHICH ARE
MADE AVAILABLE TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES. THEY ALSO COMMENT
REGULARLY IN OP-ED PAGES THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
A SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FROM 2004–2005 IS PROVIDED IN THIS REPORT.
UPDATED LISTINGS OF FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND THE INSTITUTE’S NEWSLETTER,
BRIEFINGS, ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.WATSONINSTITUTE.ORG.
James Der Derian
“Imaging Terror: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.” Third World Quarterly 26, no.
1 (2005): 5–22.
“9/11 and Its Consequences for the Discipline.” Zeitschrift für Internationale
Beziehungen (German Journal of International Relations) (April 2004):
89–100.
“The Question of Information Technology in International Relations.”
Millennium Journal of International Studies 32, no. 3 (2004): 441–456.
SCID is the second academic journal to make its editorial home at the
Watson Institute. From 1998 to 2002, the International Studies Review, one
of three official journals of the International Studies Association (ISA), was
based at the Institute.
Steven P. Hamburg
R. D. Yanai, J. D. Blum, S. P. Hamburg, M. A. Arthur, T. G. Siccama, C.
Nezat. “New Insights into Calcium Depletion in Northeastern Forests.”
Journal of Forestry 103 (2005): 14–20.
BROWN JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS
(BJWA)
BJWA, an interdisciplinary undergraduate publication housed at the Watson
Institute, provides a forum for world leaders, policymakers, and prominent
academics to engage in vigorous debate on international affairs. Advised by
faculty and staff associated with the International Relations Program, the
journal produces two issues a year. Additionally this year, BJWA opened a
blogging site through www.Watsonblogs.org/bwja (see page 40).
Among the prominent world leaders and scholars featured in the Winter/
Spring 2005 (XI, no. 2) and the Summer/Fall 2005 (XII, no. 1) issues are
Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and former United Nations
high commissioner for human rights, and Samantha Power, author of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of
Genocide.
Subscriptions to BJWA are available online at www.bjwa.org.
STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SCID)
As of the spring of 2005, the quarterly journal SCID began a five-year term at
the Watson Institute, moving from the University of California at Berkeley.
SCID, which is edited by Director of Political Economy and Development
Program Barbara Stallings, is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a
wide range of articles on issues concerning political, social, and economic
change in national, comparative, and international contexts (see page 16.)
Subscriptions to SCID are available online at www.metapress.com/link.
asp?id=105286.
BOOKS
Omer Bartov
The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust.
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2005.
William O. Beeman
The “Great Satan” vs. the “Mad Mullahs”: How the United States and Iran
Demonize Each Other. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood/Praeger, 2005.
James G. Blight and janet M. Lang
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Lanham,
Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds.
Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State. Pittsburgh, Penn.:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Abbott Gleason
and Jack Goldsmith and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. On Nineteen Eighty-
Four: Orwell and Our Future. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
2005.
Joshua S. Goldstein
The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror. New York,
N.Y.: New York University Press, 2004.
Sergei N. Khrushchev
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. Vol. 1: “Commissar, 1918–1945.” Editor.
University Park, Penn.: Penn State University Press and the Watson
Institute for International Studies, 2005. [Also Memoirs: Selected Chapters,
Literatura Obshchestvennykh Nauk, Beijing, China, 2005.]
Marsha Pripstein Posusney
and Michele Penner Angrist, eds. Authoritarianism in the Middle East:
Regimes and Resistance. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Saleem H. Ali
“Siachen: Ecological Peace between India and Pakistan.” Sanctuary Asia
(February 2005).
Peter Andreas
“The Criminalizing Consequences of Sanctions: Embargo Busting and Its
Legacy.” International Studies Quarterly 49, no. 2 (June 2005): 335–360.
“Illicit International Political Economy: The Clandestine Side of
Globalization.” Review of International Political Economy 11, no. 3
(August 2004): 653–654.
“The Mexicanization of the U.S.-Canada Border: Asymmetric Interdependence
in a New Security Context.” International Journal 60, no. 2 (Spring
2005): 449–464.
James G. Blight and janet M. Lang
“Lesson Number One: “Empathize with Your Enemy.” Peace and Conflict
(Winter 2005).
Susan E. Cook ’88
“Chiefs, Kings, Corporatization, and Democracy: A South African Case
Study.” Brown Journal of World Affairs 12, no. 1 (Summer/Fall 2005):
125–138.
Neta C. Crawford ’85
“Principia Leviathan: Moral Duties of American Hegemony.” Naval War
College Review LVII, no. 3 (Summer/Autumn 2004): 67–90.
“The Road to Global Empire: The Logic of U.S. Foreign Policy after
9/11.” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, 48, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 685–703.
Patrice M. Dabrowski
“‘Discovering’ the Galician Borderlands: The Case of the Eastern
Carpathians.” Slavic Review, 64, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 380–402.
Shirley Brice Heath
and Claire Kramsch. “Individuals, Institutions, and the Uses of Literacy.” A
Special Feature: Claire Kramsch and Shirley Brice Heath in Conversation.
Journal of Applied Linguistics 1, no. 1 (2004): 75–94.
and Shelby Wolf. “Focus in Creative Learning: Drawing on Art for Language
Development.” Literacy (formerly Reading, Literacy, and Language,
journal of the United Kingdom Literacy Association) (2005): 38–45.
Leiwen Jiang
and Ren Qiang. “Projection on Population, Household, and Housing
Demand in China.” Market and Demographic Analysis 2 (2005): 20–30.
and Pang Lihua and Zhang Zhiming. “Slum Prevalence and Floating
Population in Urban China.” Population Research 4 (2005).
Wang Haitao, Ren Qiang, and Leiwen Jiang. “Socio-Demographic Analysis
of Housing Privatization in the Large Cities of China.” Market and
Demographic Analysis, 2 (2004): 56–63.
Yong Wook Lee
“The Origin of One Party Domination: America’s Reverse Course and the
Emergence of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan.” Journal of East
Asian Affairs XVIII, no. 2 (2004): 371–413.
and Hyemee Park. “The Politics of Foreign Labor Policies in Korea and
Japan.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 35, no. 2 (2005): 143–165.
and Sunhyuk Kim. “New Asian Regionalism and the United States:
Constructing Regional Identity and Interest.” Politics of Inclusion and
Exclusion, Pacific Focus XIV, no.2 (2004): 185–231.
Stephen C. Lubkemann
“The Anthropology of Violent Events in West Africa.” Anthropological
Quarterly (guest editor) 78, no. 2 (2005).
Catherine Lutz
“Military Bases and Ethnographies of the New Militarization.” Anthropology
Newsletter (January 2005).
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, SCID PRESENTS CRITICAL AND INNOVATIVE
ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES THAT CHALLENGE PREVAILING ORTHODOXIES,
FEATURES ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES ON ALL WORLD REGIONS, AND IS OPEN
TO ALL THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2004–2005
WATSON FACULTY
William F. S. Miles
“Democracy without Sovereignty: France’s Post-Colonial Paradox.” The
Brown Journal of World Affairs 11, no. 2 (Winter/Spring 2005): 223–234.
Linda B. Miller
“America and the World: (Still) a Work in Progress?” International Affairs
30, no. 3 (July 2004): 443–450.
Brian C. O’Neill
“Population Scenarios Based on Probabilistic Projections: An Application
for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.” Population & Environment
26, no. 3 (2005): 229–254.
and M. Desai. “The Historical Accuracy of Projections of U.S. Energy
Consumption.” Energy Policy 33, no. 8 (2005): 979–993.
and M. Oppenheimer. “Climate Change Impacts are Sensitive to the
Concentration Stabilization Path.” Proceedings of the National Academies
of Science—USA 101, no. 47 (2004): 16411–16416.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
“Assessing Inequality.” Special issue of the Journal of Democracy on the
“Quality of Democracy” (Larry Diamond and Leonardo Molino, eds.) 15,
4 (October 2004): 76–90.
Nina Tannenwald
“Ideas and Explanation: Advancing the Research Agenda.” The Journal of
Cold War Studies 7, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 13–42.
“Il Santuario Spaziale.” [“Space Sanctuary”] Limes (a leading Italian journal
of foreign affairs), no. 5 (Fall 2004): 75–84. Translated into Italian.
“Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo.” International
Security 30, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 5–49.
and William Wohlforth, eds. Special issue of The Journal of Cold War
Studies on “The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War” 7, no. 2 (Spring
2005).
J. Ann Tickner
“What is Your Research Program? Some Feminist Answers to IR’s
Methodological Questions.” International Studies Quarterly 49 (2005):
1–21.
Kay Warren
“Los desafíos de representar los movimientos panmayas: respuesta a Carol
Smith.” [“Challenges of Representing Pan-Maya Movements: A Response
to Carol Smith.”] Mesoamérica 47 (enero-deciembre de 2005): 139–150.
“Repositioning without Capitulation: Discussions with June Nash on
Identity, Activism, and Politics.” Critique of Anthropology 25, no. 3 (2005):
217–228.
and Jean Jackson. “Indigenous Movements in Latin America, 1992–2004:
Controversies, Ironies, New Directions.” Annual Reviews of Anthropology
34 (2005).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Saleem H. Ali
and Matias Chiota. “Environmental Narratives in Collaborative Education:
Experiences from the Middle East” in Palestinian and Israeli Environmental
Narratives, Stuart Schoenfeld, ed. Center for International Security Studies
Series. Toronto, Canada: York University, 2005.
Hayward R. Alker
“Emancipation in the Critical Security Studies Project” in Critical Security
Studies, Kenneth Booth, ed. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2005.
Thomas J. Biersteker
and Sue E. Eckert, Aaron Halegua, and Peter Romaniuk. “Targeted
Sanctions and State Capacity: Towards a Framework for National Level
Implementation” and “Consensus from the Bottom Up? Assessing the
Influence of the Sanctions Reform Process” in Between Words and Wars:
The Challenge of New Sanctions, Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano,
eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala
University, 2005 (Frank Cass Publishers).
Douglas W. Blum
“Beyond Blood and Belief: Culture, Identity, and State Foreign Policy
Interests” in The Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy, Brenda
Shaffer, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.
Keith Brown
“Samuel Huntington, Meet the Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, and the
Clash of Civilizations” in Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong a bout
the World, Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besterman, eds. Berkeley, Calif.:
University of California Press, 2005.
Neta C. Crawford ’85
“The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush’s ‘Preemptive’ War Strategy”
in Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, Elizabeth A.
Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen, eds., New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, 2004.
Sue E. Eckert
“Lessons from the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts” in Profiting from Peace:
Managing the Resource Dimension of Civil War, Karen Ballentine and
Heiko Nitzschke, eds. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, Publishers 2005.
“Protecting Critical Infrastructure: The Role of the Private Sector” in
Guns and Butter: The Political Economy of International Security, Peter
Dombrowski, ed. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005).
(See Book Chapters, Thomas J. Biersteker, “Targeted Sanctions and State
Capacity.”)
Miguel Glatzer
and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. “An Introduction to the Problem” and
“Conclusion: Politics Matters” in Globalization and the Future of the
Welfare State. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Joshua S. Goldstein
“War and Gender” in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in
the World’s Cultures, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. New York,
N.Y.: Kluwer/Plenum and Human Resources Area Files, 2004.
Shirley Brice Heath
and Elke Boehncke. “Platforms for Youth Responsibility: Ways of Studying
Learning between the Lines” in En vänbok till Birgitta Qvarsell. Pedagogik
som vetenskap. Agnieskzka Bron and Anders Gustavsson, eds. Stockholm:
Stockholm University, 2004.
and Ken Robinson. “Making a Way: Youth Arts and Learning in International
Perspective” in Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the
21 st Century, Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond, eds. Chicago, Ill.: Center
for Arts Policy, Columbia College, 2004.
Patricia Herlihy
“Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste: A Tale of Two Cities” in Yearbook 2003.
Simon Dubnow Institute: University of Leipzig, 2004.
Leiwen Jiang
and Ren Qiang. “Studies on Population, Household Dynamics, and Housing
Changes in China” in Selected Papers of Scientific Studies on the China’s
Fifth Census. China Statistical Press, 2005.
Alexia Prskawetz, Jiang Leiwen, and Brian C. O’Neill. “Demographic
Composition and Projections of Car Use in Austria” in Vienna Yearbook of
Population Research 2004. Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences
Press, 2004.
Sergei N. Khrushchev
“Nikita Khrushchev and Dag Hammarskjöld” in Legacy of Dag
Hammarskjöld. Stockholm, Sweden, 2005. [In Swedish and English]
“Reflections on President Eisenhower, the Cold War, and My Father” in
Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security in the 21 st Century.
Colorado Spring, Colo.: Colorado College and Imprint Publications, 2005.
Stephen C. Lubkemann
“Situating Migration in Wartime and Post-War Mozambique: A Critique of
Forced Migration Research” in Categories and Contexts: Anthropological
Studies in Critical Demography (IUSSP Studies in Social Demography),
S. Szreter, A. Dharmalingam, and H. Sholkamy, eds. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
Catherine Lutz
“La dépression est-elle universelle?” Préface de Vinciane Despret, Questce
que l’ethnopsychologie? Les empêcheurs de penser en rond. Paris: Le
Seuil, 2004. (Translation and analysis of 1985 essay “Depression and the
Translation of Emotional Worlds.”)
Brian C. O’Neill
W. Lutz, W. Sanderson, and Brian C. O’Neill. “Conceptualizing Population
in Sustainable Development: From ‘Population Stabilization’ to ‘Population
Balance’”; Brian C. O’Neill, F. L. MacKellar, and W. Lutz. “Population,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Climate Change”; and W. Sanderson,
S. Scherbov, W. Lutz, and Brian C. O’Neill. “Applications of Probabilistic
Population Forecasting” in The End of World Population Growth in the 21 st
Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable
Development, W. Lutz, W. C. Sanderson, and S. Scherbov, eds. London,
U.K.: Earthscan Press, 2004.
(See Book Chapters, Leiwen Jiang, “Demographic Composition and Car Use in
Austria.”)
Marsha Pripstein Posusney
“The Middle East’s Democracy Gap in Comparative Perspective” in
Authoritarianism in the Middle East, Marsha Pripstein Posusney and
Michele Penner Angrist, eds. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2005.
Simone Pulver
“Organizing Business: Industry NGOs in the Climate Debates” in The
Business of Climate Change: Corporate Responses to Kyoto, Kathryn Begg,
Frans van der Woerd, and David Levy, eds. Wiltshire, U.K.: Greenleaf
Publishing Company, 2004.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
(See above, Book Chapters, Miguel Glatzer, “An Introduction to the Problem” and
“Conclusion: Politics Matters.”)
Marilyn Rueschemeyer
“De la chute du Mur a l’election des femmes dans les espaces parlementaires”
in Femmes Et Parlements Un Regard International, Manon Tremblay, ed.
Montreal, Canada: les editions du remue-menage, 2004.
Kay Warren
“The Perils and Promises of Engaged Anthropology: Historical Transitions
and Ethnographic Dilemmas” in Engaged Observer: Advocacy, Activism,
and Anthropology, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani, eds. Piscataway,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2004–2005 SELECTED FACULTY HONORS 2004–2005
OTHER FACULTY ELECTRONIC
PUBLICATIONS
REPORTS
Peter Andreas
“U.S.-Mexico Border Control in a Changing Economic and Security
Context.” U.S.-Mexico Policy Bulletin, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, January 2005.
Keith Brown
“Principle, Pragmatism, and Political Capital: Assessing Macedonia’s
Leadership, 1992–2004.” East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson
Center, Meeting Report 310. wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/MR310Brown.doc
James Der Derian
“Virtuous War and Banal Terror” in World Economic Forum Global Agenda,
Margaret Doyle, ed. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2005.
P. Terrence Hopmann
Wolfgang Zellner in consultation with Alyson Bailes, Victor-Yves Ghebali,
P. Terrence Hopmann, Andrei Zagorski, et al. “Managing Change in Europe:
Evaluating the OSCE and Its Future Role: Competencies, Capabilities,
and Missions,” Centre for OSCE Research, Institute for Peace Research
and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Working Paper 13, 2005.
Commissioned at the request of the Finish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
www.core-hamburg.de
Geoffrey Kirkman ’91
and Robert Hawkins and Colin M. Maclay. “Global Networked Readiness for
Education: Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Project to Evaluate the Impact
of Computers and the Internet on Learning in 11 Developing Countries,”
Berkman Center Publication Series, Berkman Center for Internet & Society,
Harvard Law School, January 2005.
WATSONBLOGS
Critical commentary from Watson Institute faculty and affiliates now extends
beyond the printed page to the Internet through the Institute’s blogging
initiative, which was inaugurated in the spring of 2005. Watsonblogs create
another venue for public outreach on pressing global issues and breaking
news through which scholars and other Watson affiliates can share their
thoughts and opinions. From it will grow an immediate and vital record of
Watson activities beyond what appears on printed pages in books, journal
articles, or research reports, reaching millions in this new virtual audience.
The Institute’s Global Security Program has used its blog to challenge
standing concepts of “security” through its “Global Security Manifesto”
(see page 11). And, the BJWA used their blogging site to review an Institute
event featuring Daniel Levy, a drafter of the (2003) Geneva Accords.
Visit Watsonblogs at www.Watsonblogs.org
Patrice M. Dabrowski
“Branding the Hutsuls,” Transitions Online, June 16, 2005. www.tol.cz
[search for “Dabrowski” and register log-in]
James Der Derian
ITWP InfoInterventions: “Global Swarming” (8.03.05), “The War on
Media” (05.27.05), “The Bin Laden Videotapes, III” (11.15.04), edited and
introduced. www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/
Linda B. Miller
“The U.S. and the Middle East after Iraq: Still through Dark Glasses?”
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, January 2005. davis.huji.ac.il
VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
Shirley Brice Heath
ArtShow 2 Grow. Director and Producer. DVD with two new short
documentaries on two youth-based community organizations and the 1999
ArtShow], 2005.
CHOICES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Teaching Units
A Forgotten History: Slavery in New England, 1 st ed., 2005
Caught Between Two Worlds: Mexico at the Crossroads, 6 th ed., 2004
Charting Russia’s Future, 9 th ed., 2005
China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response, 7 th ed., 2004
Confronting Genocide: Never Again?, 2 nd ed., 2004
Ending the War against Japan: Science, Morality and the Atomic Bomb,
4 th ed., 2005
From Colony to Democracy: Considering Brazil’s Development,
1 st ed., 2004
Global Environmental Problems: Implications for U.S. Policy,
11 th ed., 2005
The Russian Revolution, 1 st ed., 2005
Russia’s Uncertain Transition: Challenges for U.S. Policy, 6 th ed., 2005
Shifting Sands: Balancing U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 9 th ed., 2005
U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World, 11 th ed., 2004
The U.S. Role in a Changing World, 2 nd ed., 2004
U.S. Trade Policy: Competing in a Global Economy, 9 th ed., 2005
Teaching with the News
“Considering Genocide in Sudan,” 1 st ed., 2005
“Iraq: The Challenge of Securing the Peace,” 3 rd ed., 2004, and
4 th ed., 2005
“North Korea and Nuclear Weapons,” 2nd ed., 2005
“Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy,” 1 st ed., 2004
“The Tsunami Disaster: Putting it in the Context of Foreign Aid,”
1 st ed., 2005
Guides
The People Speak Youth Circles Guide, 1 st ed., 2004
Hayward R. Alker, Adjunct Professor (Research): Named to the editorial
board of the Journal of International Relations and Development.
Peter Andreas, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International
Studies: Addressed the 2004 Border Governors Conference in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, a major interregional event drawing governors from U.S. and
Mexico’s border states.
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History
and Principal Investigator, Borderlands Project: Elected fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Thomas J. Biersteker, Director, Watson Institute, and Henry R. Luce Professor:
Served on the Lionel Gelber Prize Jury at the Munk Centre for International
Studies, University of Toronto, to select the most outstanding book
on international affairs in 2004.
Keith Brown, Assistant Professor (Research): Named to present the Evans-
Pritchard Lectures, titled “The Structure of Loyalty in Revolutionary Macedonia,”
during the fall of 2004 at All Souls College, Oxford University,
U.K. Received the American Association for the Advancement for Slavic
Studies’ 2004 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Honorable Mention for The Past
in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation (Princeton
University Press, 2003).
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil and Professor-at-
Large: In March 2005, convened the International Summit on Democracy,
Terrorism, and Security in Madrid, as president and founder of the Club of
Madrid. Watson Overseer Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland,
participated as the Club’s vice president; Senior Fellow Sue E. Eckert was
a member of one of the summit working groups.
James Der Derian, Director of the Global Security Program and Professor
(Research): Gave the 2005 Honors Convocation Address at the University
of Idaho titled “Beyond 9/11: A New Global Security Agenda.”
Shirley Brice Heath, Professor-at-Large: Named a distinguished fellow at
LaTrobe University’s Institute for Advanced Study, Melbourne, Australia.
Patricia Herlihy, Professor (Research): Received the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Emeritus Fellowship for research on Eugene Schuyler (1840–
1890).
P. Terrence Hopmann, Professor of Political Science and Principal Investigator,
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project:
Served on a high-level panel of OSCE experts preparing an evaluation
of the organization, which was commissioned by the foreign minister of
Finland.
David I. Kertzer, Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science and
former Director of the Politics, Culture, and Identity Program: Elected fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Senior Fellow: Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who
in the World, Who’s Who in America. Who’s Who in American Education,
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry;
and Great Lives of the 21 st Century (first edition, Cambridge, U.K.)
Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology and Professor (Research):
Concluded her term as president of the American Ethnological Society.
Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Adjunct Professor (Research): Appointed in 2005
to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, representing the American Sociological Association.
Kay Warren, Director of the Politics, Culture, and Identity Program,
Charles B. Tillinghast Jr. Professor in International Studies, and Professor
of Anthropology: Gave the keynote for Brown University’s 241st Opening
Convocation on September 7, titled “Creative Minds.”
INSTITUTIONAL HONORS
Watson Institute: Granted special consultative status with the United
Nation’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a vehicle within the
UN for airing international economic and social issues and for formulating
policy recommendations that are addressed to the UN and its Member
States. Invited by the United Nations Development Programme’s Human
Development Report Office to organize two panels for the Third Forum on
Human Development, January 2005, in Paris. Catherine Lutz; Kwaku A.
Nuamah, postdoctoral fellow; Barbara Stallings, director of the Political
Economy and Development Program; and Kay Warren attended the forum.
Global Security Program: Granted a Brown University Scholarly Technology
Group (STG) Faculty Grant for the development of Global Security
Matrix (see page 11).
WATSON INSTITUTE BOARD MEMBERS
John Birkelund, LLD ’02 (hon.), Chair, Board of Overseers, and General
Partner, Sarasota Partners; and Robert H. Legvold, Professor of Political
Science; Columbia University: Elected fellows of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
Frederic B. Garonzik ’64, Mariner Investments: Elected to the Board of
Trustees, Brown University.
William R. Rhodes ’57 LHD’05 (hon.), Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup,
and Chairman, Citicorp and Citibank: Received an honorary degree from
Brown University in May 2005.
Mary Robinson LLD’91 (hon.): Named as one of Time Magazine’s “100
Most Influential People of 2005.”
John Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of State and Chair, Lower
Manhattan Redevelopment Commission: Received the Inaugural Laureate
Award by the Global Center for Leadership & Business Ethics.
WATSONBLOGS.ORG
HOSTED BY THE WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
BROWN UNIVERSITY
KAY WARREN (FAR RIGHT)
JOINS BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
RUTH J. SIMMONS AND
PROVOST ROBERT J. ZIMMER
AT THE 2004 FALL CONVOCATION.
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WATSON EVENTS
During the academic year, the Watson Institute sponsors seminars and conferences featuring prominent
scholars, diplomats, politicians, and practitioners who address topics closely related to the Institute’s
research initiatives or breaking news stories. Always informative, often controversial, Institute guest
lecturers and conference participants offer a wide range of views on international issues to Brown
students and faculty and to communities beyond the University.
The Institute has over 10 core seminar series, which are described in these pages, and each research
program offers speakers related to relevant thematic initiatives. Conferences and workshops focusing
on the Institute’s research draw many international scholars to Brown. In addition, this year the
Institute offered Brown undergraduates the opportunity to serve as student rapporteurs, recording and
summarizing the more than 100 events the Institute sponsors from September through May.
In addition, Watson Institute faculty made presentations for several Brown University events,
including informational panels on the war in Iraq and forums for Parents’ Weekend and Brown’s
Commencement.
A detailed listing of all 2004–2005 events is available at www.watsoninstitute.org.
AN ICEBERG IS SEEN IN DISKO BAY, GREENLAND, ABOVE THE
ARCTIC CIRCLE ON AUGUST 19, 2005. SCIENTISTS SAY THAT GLOBAL
WARMING IS CAUSING GLACIERS TO SHRINK, TEMPERATURES
OF THE ARCTIC WATERS TO WARM, AND PERMAFROST TO
SOFTEN. WATSON INSTITUTE EVENTS COVER A BROAD RANGE OF
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. AMONG THESE ARE PROGRAMS ON THE
SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLICYMAKING.
(AP PHOTO/JOHN MCCONNICO)
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SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES 2004–2005
WATSON EVENTS
SEMINAR SERIES
THE DIRECTORS LECTURE SERIES
ON CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Thomas J. Biersteker, Principal Organizer
This series sponsored by the Watson Institute’s research directors brings to
campus leading public intellectuals to engage in discussion on compelling
global issues. These speakers play an important role in bridging the gap
between the academy and the public on topics such as war, terrorism, ethnic
conflict, the environment, and globalization.
Four lectures were delivered in 2004–2005: Mary Robinson, former
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland, on
“Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe: An Urgent Challenge”; Sir
Crispin Tickell, former British Ambassador to the United Nations and a
Watson Institute Overseer, on “Trans-Atlantic Blues: A Regional or Global
Alliance?”; Heraldo Muñoz, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United
Nations on “Sanctioning Al Qaeda and the Taliban: the UN Security Council
Experience”; and Barbara Bodine, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and
Executive Director, Governance Initiative, Harvard University Kennedy
School of Government on “Governance in the Middle East: Iraq and Beyond.”
THE AFRICA GROUP COLLOQUIUM
Philip Leis, Anthropology, Principal Organizer
This network of Brown faculty and students and other colleagues in the
Providence area meets to engage in discussion about the issues confronting
the countries of the African continent and methods employed to analyze
these issues. This series has provided young scholars with an important
opportunity to present their doctoral research. During the academic year,
the group organized six events on themes ranging from the evolution of
U.S. foreign policy in Africa to the United Nations and decolonization in
Africa to labor in the postapartheid regions to weapons of mass production
in rural Africa.
THE BORDERLANDS:
THE SHATTER-ZONE OF EMPIRES SERIES
Omer Bartov, History, Principal Organizer
This three-year interdisciplinary and international research project explores
the origins and manifestations of ethnic violence in the borderlands region
of East-Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. A key component of
the project is a regular seminar series for senior and junior scholars to
share ongoing research initiatives. In 2004–2005, the series sponsored
10 presentations on topics including nationalities in revolution, national
hate narratives, Jewish national independence in Posen/Pozan, the Soviet
War against the Fifth Columnists in Chechnya, the development of ethnic
cleansing in the Balkans, the Muslim exodus from Salonkia, and borderlands
as personal identity (see page 21).
CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
FILM SERIES
Adam Saks ’04.5, Organizer
This annual series offers the Brown community an opportunity to view
some of the best documentary and fictional cinema coming out of Latin
America. In 2004–2005, Brown alumnus, Adam Saks, organized the
“Moving Pictures: Latin American Cinema and Human Rights Film Series,”
which was his senior project as a Latin American studies concentrator. The
series, which featured six films, brought together diverse representatives of
recent Latin American social cinema. These were in order of presentation
Welcome to Columbia, Kamchatka, The Pinochet Case, Os carvoeiros (The
Charcoal People), Señorita extraviada (Missing Young Woman), and The
Dancer Upstairs.
COLLOQUIUM ON COMPARATIVE
RESEARCH
Melani Cammett ’91, Political Science, Convenor (2004–2005)
See Political Economy and Development Program on page 16.
CORPORATE POWER AND GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
Simone Pulver, Principal Organizer
See Global Environment Program on page 14.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP ON
ECONOMIC GROWTH
David Weil, Economics, and Barbara Stallings, Principal Organizers
See the Political Economy and Development Program on page 17.
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE
Simone Pulver, Principal Organizer
See the Global Environment Program on page 14.
THE EUROPEAN POLITICS
SEMINAR SERIES
Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Principal Organizer
This series considers, through occasional lectures and workshops, the
political, social, and economic issues confronting Europe. It surveys and
compares policy responses among different states, problems of European
integration, as well as relations between Europe and other parts of the
world. The seminar series builds on the previous work of the Future of
Germany Seminar Series. In 2004–2005, the series sponsored two lectures
on social problems and political choices in Europe, and globalization and
the transition from socialism in Russia.
FACULTY/VISITOR TUESDAY SEMINARS
James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, Co-organizers
Begun in 2004–2005, this weekly in-house seminar series featured Institute
faculty and visitors’ latest research for discussion and critique.
GLOBAL ETHICS SEMINAR SERIES
Neta C. Crawford ’85, Principal Organizer
See Crosscutting Initiatives on page 23.
GLOBAL SECURITY SEMINAR SERIES
James Der Derian, Principal Organizer
The Watson Institute’s Global Security Program sponsors this annual
seminar series, which in 2004–2005 featured three talks by leading scholars
on why the U.S. has been targeted by terrorism, the impact of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in South Africa, and the social construction of destruction in war.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
SEMINAR SERIES
Julio Ortega, Acting Director, Center for Latin American Studies
The Center sponsors seminars, a film series, and related conferences on
Latin America. Annually, it draws on international scholars to present
research on wide-ranging topics related to the politics, culture, and identity
of Central and South American and Caribbean countries. This year, CLAS in
collaboration with the Watson Institute sponsored a series of events featuring
Professor-at-Large Fernando Henrique Cardoso including three sessions on
the U.S. 2004 presidential elections from different perspectives.
LECTURE SERIES ON DEVELOPMENT
IN SOUTH ASIA: CRITICAL ISSUES AND
CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
South Asian Student Association (SASA), Brown University, Organizers
In the spring of 2005, SASA organized this lecture series to explore South
Asia and some of the contemporary problems it faces from a variety of
perspectives. The eight presentations included lectures, panels, and performance
arts events. Each contributed to SASA’s goal of providing attendees
with a comprehensive understanding of the most pressing development issues
that face South Asia today. Speakers in the series touched on issues
ranging from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India to the Bhopal disaster to the
westernization of Asian diets and its implications for food systems.
MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
SEMINAR SERIES
See Crosscutting Initiatives on page 23.
ABOVE:
L–R: 2004–2005 STUDENT RAPPORTEURS—
LIANA PARIS ’07, KARABEKIR AKKOYUNLU ’05, AND
PENG WU ’05. (NOT SHOWN LAUREL RAPP ’06).
RIGHT:
BARBARA BODINE
SIR CRISPIN TICKELL
ABOVE:
OMER BARTOV (LEFT) AND
NETA C. CRAWFORD ’85 (RIGHT)
DURING A GLOBAL ETHICS
FACULTY SEMINAR.
L–R:
MARY ROBINSON LLD’91 (HON.)
HERALDO MUÑOZ
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SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES 2004–2005
WATSON EVENTS
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOPS, AND SPECIAL PANELS
BEYOND TERROR:
A NEW SECURITY AGENDA
Sponsor: Global Security Program. Organizers: James Der Derian. June
3–4, 2005. (See Global Security Program on page 11.)
CAPITOL FORUM SUMMER INSTITUTE
Sponsor: Choices for the 21 st Century Education Program. Organizers:
Susan Graseck, Barbara Shema, and the Choices Program Team. June 24–
26, 2005. (See Choices Program on page 26.)
COMMENCEMENT FORUMS, MAY 28, 2005
The Andean Countries Today and Tomorrow: Internal and
External Options in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia
with Julio Ortega, Ricardo Luna, René Mayorga, Center for Latin
American Studies; Carolina Gallegos-Anda ’03, Goldman-Sachs; and
Marcella Echavarria ’95, a Colombian writer and founder of SUR, a
gallery dedicated to arts and design.
The History of the U.S./U.S.S.R. Race in Space Exploration
and Its Implications for the New U.S. Initiative with Wesley T.
Huntress Jr. ’64, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, and
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Global Security Program.
The Fog of War: The Movie and the Book with James G. Blight
and janet M. Lang, Critical Oral History Project, Global Security
Program.
International Financial Diplomacy with Thomas J. Biersteker,
Watson Institute; Barbara Stallings, Political Economy and
Development Program; William R. Rhodes ’57 LHD’05, Watson
Institute Board of Overseers.
DEBATE ON THE JOHN BOLTON
NOMINATION FOR UN AMBASSADORSHIP
Participants: Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins University, and Morton
Halperin, Open Society Institute. Organized by Campus Progress, a division
of the Center for American Progress, in association with the Watson Institute,
Democracy Matters, Americans for Informed Democracy, and other Brown
campus groups. April 14, 2005.
EXPERT CONSULTATION ON THE RIGHT TO
HOUSING AND PROPERTY RESTITUTION
Sponsors: Watson Institute, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
(COHRE), with the support of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner
for Refugees and the Norwegian Refugee Council. Organizer:
Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro, Center for Latin American Studies. April 21, 2005.
EXPERT MEETING ON VIOLENCE AGAINST
CHILDREN AND THE INTER-AMERICAN
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies and the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights. Organizer: Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro, Center
for Latin American Studies. March 5, 2005.
FAIR ELECTIONS? INTERNATIONAL
MONITORING OF THE 2004 U.S.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Speakers: Kwesi Addae, Pollwatch Africa; Jason Mark, Global Exchange;
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brown University; Matthew C. Gutmann,
Anthropology. Sponsors: Watson Institute, the Office of the President, and
the Office of the Provost. Organizer: Catherine Lutz. October 25, 2004.
I LOVE YOU [REV.ENG] EXHIBITION
Sponsor: Information Technology, War, and Peace Project, Global Security
Program. Organizers: Franziska Nori of digitalcraft.org, curator, and James
Der Derian and InfoTechWarPeace Project team. September 10–October
4, 2004. Held in conjunction with “The Power and Pathology of Networks
Symposium.” (See Global Security Program on page 8.)
INTEGRATING CIVIC AND
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Sponsor: Choices for the 21 st Century Education Program. Organizers: Susan
Graseck, Lucy Mueller, Barbara Shema, Watson Institute, and the Choices
Program Team. August 7–9, 2005. (See Choices Program on page 25.)
INTERETHNIC COEXISTENCE AND VIOLENCE
IN EUROPE’S EASTERN BORDERLANDS:
STATES, NATIONS, COMMUNITIES
Sponsor: Borderlands Project, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program.
Organizer: Omer Bartov. May 13–15, 2005. (See Politics, Culture, and
Identity Program on page 21.)
KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND VIETNAM
Sponsor: Critical Oral History Project, Global Security Program. Organizers:
James G. Blight and janet M. Lang. Location: Musgrove Conference Center,
St. Simons Island, Georgia. April 8–10, 2005.
LESSONS AND LEGACIES VIII:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE
HOLOCAUST— “FROM GENERATION TO
GENERATION”
Sponsors: The Holocaust Educational Foundation and Brown University,
with contributions from the Office of the President, Department of Judaic
Studies, and Watson Institute. Organizers: Zev Weiss with Omer Bartov.
November 4–7, 2004.
THE POWER AND PATHOLOGY OF
NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM
Sponsor: Information Technology, War, and Peace Project, Global Security
Program. Organizers: James Der Derian and InfoTechWarPeace Project
team. September 10–11, 2004. (See Global Security Program on page 9.)
PREPARED FOR PEACE? THE USE AND
ABUSE OF “CULTURE” IN MILITARY
SIMULATIONS
Sponsors: Cultural Awareness and the Military Project and the Pell Center
for International Studies, Salve Regina University. Organizers: Keith Brown
and Catherine Lutz, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program; James Der
Derian, Global Security Program; and Peter Liotta, Pell Center. December
6–7, 2004. (See Crosscutting Initiatives on page 21.)
REMAKING TRANSNATIONALISM: JAPAN,
FOREIGN AID, AND THE SEARCH FOR
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
Sponsor: Politics, Culture, and Identity Program. Organizers: Kay Warren
and David Leheny, University of Wisconsin. Funding: Center for Global
Partnership of the Abe Foundation in Japan and the Social Science Research
Council. February 11–12, 2005.
SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE
Sponsor: Choices for the 21 st Century Education Program. Organizers:
Susan Graseck, Sarah Kreckel, Watson Institute, and the Choices Program
Team. June 28–29, 2005. (See Choices Program on page 25.)
SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESPONSES
TO THE EVOLVING STRUCTURE
OF U.S. MILITARY BASES
Sponsor: U.S. Military Bases and Global Response Project, Politics, Culture,
and Identity Program. Organizer: Catherine Lutz. October 22–23, 2004.
TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY: VIETNAM—
OTHER VOICES, OTHER PERCEPTIONS
Sponsor: Choices for the 21 st Century Education Program. Organizers:
Susan Graseck, Sarah Kreckel, Watson Institute, and the Choices Program
Team. July 6–13, 2005. (See Choices Program on page 25.)
THREE ANNIVERSARIES WITH THE
U.S. WAR IN VIETNAM
Sponsors: Francis Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning, the C. V. Starr
Lectureships Fund, the Watson Institute, Creative Arts Council, and the
Arca Foundation. Organizers: James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, Critical
Oral History Project, Global Security Program. April 25–27, 2005. (See
Global Security Program on page 9.)
The Vietnam War: Untold Stories—A Colloquium: “Fringes of
War: Vietnam, 1969,” with Roger LeBrun, University of Rhode
Island and a combat medic with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam
in 1969–1970; “Impressions of My Father,” with Quyen Truong, a
Brown senior art concentrator; “A Surgeon in Vietnam Reports,” with
Augustus A. White III, formerly of Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital,
and a MASH unit surgeon in South Vietnam in 1965–1966. April 25,
2005
Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam: The Impact of the Presidential
Transition on the War and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign and
Defense Policy with Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive;
James G. Blight and janet M. Lang; David A. Welch, Munk Centre
for International Studies, University of Toronto. April 26, 2005.
Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the
21st Century with Robert S. McNamara, former secretary of defense
in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; James G. Blight; and
Abbott Gleason, Watson Institute. April 27, 2005.
TURMOIL IN THE ANDES: ERODING STATES
AND FRAGILE DEMOCRACIES
Organizers: Julio Ortega, Ricardo Luna, René Mayorga, Center for Latin
American Studies. Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies. April 29–
30, 2005.
THE VIETNAM WAR:
UNTOLD STORIES—AN EXHIBITION
Images by Roger LeBrun and Quyen Truong ’05. Part of the “Three
Anniversaries of the U.S. War in Vietnam” (see above). Organizer: Critical
Oral History Projects, Global Security Program. April 25–July 22, 2005.
WRITING FOR THEATRE AND SCREEN IN THE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Sponsor: The International Writers Project and the Africana Studies
Department, as part of the Africana Film Festival. Organizer: Pierre
Mumbere Mujomba. April 14, 2005.
LEFT:
L–R: BEYOND TERROR PANELISTS: JAMES
DER DERIAN; DANIEL DEUDNEY, JOHNS
HOPKINS UNIVERSITY; MICHAEL KLARE,
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE; AND STEPHEN DEL
ROSSO, CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW
YORK.
RIGHT:
L–R: CONGOLESE FILMMAKER MWEZE D.
NGANGURA AND CONGOLESE LITERARY
SCHOLAR NGWARSUNGU CHIWENGO
DURING A PANEL FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL
BROWN AFRICANA FILM FESTIVAL IN APRIL
2005. THE PANEL FOCUSED ON THE HOME
COUNTRY OF PIERRE MUMBERE MUJOMBA,
BROWN’S 2004–2005 INTERNATIONAL
WRITERS PROJECT FELLOW.
ABOVE:
L–R: RUTH WEDGWOOD, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY,
THOMAS J. BIERSTEKER, AND MORTON HALPERIN,
OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE DURING THE JOHN BOLTON
NOMINATION DEBATE, APRIL 2005.
BELOW:
L–R: PAULO SÈRGIO PINHEIRO AND CLARE KAMAU
ROBERTS, CHAIR, INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON
HUMAN RIGHTS, WHICH CONVENED AT THE WATSON
INSTITUTE IN MARCH 2005.
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FINANCIAL REVIEW 2004–2005
FINANCIAL REVIEW
THE 2004–2005 WATSON INSTITUTE OPERATING BUDGET OF OVER $4.6 MILLION
CAME FROM INDIVIDUAL GIFTS, GRANTS, AND A DESIGNATED ENDOWMENT. AS IN
PREVIOUS YEARS, BROWN UNIVERSITY BORE OVERHEAD COSTS.
THE INSTITUTE SUCCESSFULLY MOBILIZED SUBSTANTIAL OUTSIDE FUNDING FROM
A VARIETY OF SOURCES FOR SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS. THIS TREND WILL
CONTINUE AS THE INSTITUTE DIVERSIFIES ITS SOURCES OF INCOME FOR SPECIAL
ENDEAVORS.
DURING THE 2004–2005 FISCAL YEAR, OUTSIDE FUNDS FOR THESE RESEARCH
PROJECTS AMOUNTED TO OVER $1.6 MILLION.
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
OPERATING REVENUES
ENDOWMENTS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
SPECIAL RESERVE FUNDS
TOTAL OPERATING REVENUE FISCAL YEAR 2005
OPERATING EXPENSES
PERSONNEL, FACULTY, STAFF, VISITORS
RESEARCH SUPPORT, CONFERENCES,
TRAVEL, PUBLICATIONS
OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES AND ALLOCATIONS
OPERATING REVENUES
LESS OPERATING EXPENSES
UNRESTRICTED
2,448,804
536,748
2,985,552
2,161,666
440,150
283,690
2,885,506
RESTRICTED
1,640,687
1,640,687
549,300
798,6 2 1
292,766
1,640,687
TOTAL
2,448,804
1,640,687
536,748
4,626,239
2,710,966
1,238,7 7 1
576,456
4,526,193
100,046 0 100,046
EXTERNAL GRANTS 2004–2005
Arca Foundation GS
Carnegie Corporation of New York Choices, GS
Cisco Systems GS
Environmental Protection Agency GE
Ford Foundation GS, PED
German Mission to the United Nations GS
Institute of International Education PED
Longview Foundation Choices
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PCI
National Endowment for the Humanities Choices
National Science Foundation GE
Ploughshares Fund Choices
Rockefeller Brothers Fund PCI, Choices
United Nations Environment Programme GE
U.S. Department of Education Choices
U.S. Department of Energy GE
U.S. Institute of Peace GS, PCI
CO-FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Center for Global Partnership, Abe Foundation PCI
Social Science Research Council PCI
United Nations Foundation Choices
OTHER GIFTS 2004–2005
Anonymous Donors
Robert L. Bernstein
The Birkelund Fund
John Blum
Robert Bowne Foundation
Ambassador John J. Danilovich
Fiona Druckenmiller
The William H. Donner Foundation
David E. McKinney
James H. O. Ottaway, Jr.
Jerry Potts ’84 and Dais Systems
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
The Whitehead Foundation
WATSON INSTITUTE SUPPORT TO
BROWN STUDENT INITIATIVES
The Watson Institute provides funds annually to Brown University students for
research, internships, and academic concentration support. This year, the Institute
distributed grants for the following purposes:
RESEARCH SUPPORT
Research Assistants for Research Program Initiatives; Postgraduate, Year-long
Research Assistantships for Recent Brown Graduates; Housing and Financial
Subsidy for Undergraduate Concentrations (International Relations Program,
Development Studies Program, and the Center for Latin American Studies);
Housing and Financial Subsidy for the Brown Journal of World Affairs.
STUDENT INTERNSHIPS
The Watson Institute administers three student internships as part of its mission
to Brown undergraduates who are pursuing degrees, research projects,
and careers in international relations. The Richard Smoke Summer Internships
are grants available to current Brown undergraduates, whose projects
involve research, advocacy, or service on contemporary global problems.
The Jack Ringer ’52 Summer Internship in Southeast Asia provides Brown
students and faculty with unique opportunities to do research in Southeast Asia.
The Ralph Bunche United Nations Internship places one graduating senior in
the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit for three
months during the summer.
THE 2005 RICHARD SMOKE
SUMMER INTERNS
Beth Adler ’06, Development Studies; Development of high school curriculum
about reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS with Healthwise, South Africa.
Lee Gilman ’06, Development Studies; Work with indigenous communities in
the Pachamama Alliance, Ecuador.
Caroline Mailloux ’07, Development Studies; Work on women’s access to
healthcare through the Ghana Health and Education Initiative, Humjibre, Ghana.
Julia McDowell ’06, Development Studies and Latin American Studies;
Communication and Information internship with UNESCO in Quito, Ecuador.
Cynthia Wise ’07, Biology and Development Studies; Work with the Community
Agency for Social Enquiry, South Africa.
THE 2005 JACK RINGER ’52
SUMMER INTERN
Thuy Nguyen ’06, Human Biology, Work with the Thien Binh Orphanage, Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
THE 2005 RALPH BUNCHE
UNITED NATIONS INTERNSHIP
Keiko Hayakawa ’05
OTHER SUPPORT FOR
BROWN PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Support for Darfur Genocide Conference (May 2005)
Support for the residency of and concert by Kayhan Kalhor, an Iranian musician
and composer (April 2005)
Support for a visit by Suheir Hammad, Palestinian poet (February 2005)
ABBREVIATIONS
Choices for the 21st Century Program Choices
Global Environment Program GE
Global Security Program GS
Political Economy and Development PED
Politics, Culture, and Identity PCI
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CORE ADMINISTRATION
CREDITS
Jon Buonaccorsi
Multimedia Specialist/Web Developer
Susan Costa
Executive Assistant to the Director
Ellen Darling ’04
Administrative Assistant
Katherine Toner Farrell
Events Manager
Miranda Fasulo
Executive Assistant to the Associate Director
Sheila M. Fournier
Director of Finance and Administration
Frederick F. Fullerton
Writer/Editor
Deborah Healey
Administrative Assistant
Susan Hirsch
Administrative Coordinator
Geoffrey Kirkman ’91
Associate Director
Margareta Levitsky
Academic Programs Coordinator
Laura Sadovnikoff
Program Coordinator
Amy Langlais Smith
Computing Operations Manager
Nancy Hamlin Soukup
Writer/Editor
Michelle Travers
Administrative Assistant
Joe Vang
Computing Assistant
Ellen Carney White
Events Manager
Daniel Widome ’03
Special Assistant to the Director of the Watson Institute
Nancy Hamlin Soukup
Annual Report Writer/Editor
Frederick F. Fullerton
Contributing Editor
Miranda Fasulo
Editorial Assistance
Jason Tranchida of LLAMAproduct
Providence, RI
Design
Meridian Printing
East Greenwich, RI
Printing
Nancy Hamlin Soukup
Associated Press Photo Library
Frederick F. Fullerton
John Abromowski
Sean P. Benham
Choices for the 21st Century Education Program
Global Security Program
Watson Institute Photo Archives
Other Photo Contributions Courtesy of
Richard C. Barker ’57, Keith Brown,
Karen Elliott House, Nina Tannenwald
Photography/Graphics
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