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Dedicated to the idea of “Advancing Human Progress,” the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University seeks a future with peace that lasts, development that works and knowledge that transforms.
Honoring the vision and generosity of Boston University alumnus Frederick S. Pardee, the Pardee School was established in 2014 and brought together Boston University’s long-standing Department of International Relations as well as seven centers of regional and thematic studies.
Website: www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/
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An Inter-American human rights system without the United States? Understanding why the United States has not ratified the Belém do Pará Convention
Violence against women (VAW) is a pervasive problem globally and is especially prevalent in the Americas. In the late 1980s, the Inter-American Commission of Women (Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres, CIM), a specialized ... -
How to keep it adequate: a protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation
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The politicized café: explaining the politicization of the ahwa in contemporary Egyptian social movements
(2023-03-31)The Arab Spring uprisings (2010-11) have inspired a recent outpouring of critical scholarship examining the logic of protests. Scholars have emphasized the role of information technologies, the experiences of particular ... -
Tracing Patterns of Divergence in Arms Trade after the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War: Case Studies of Turkey and India
(2023-03-31)What causes states to diverge from their historic alliances/alignments? This paper examines two case studies - Turkey and India - focusing on the degree to which alliances, arms transfers, and conflict alter each state’s ... -
Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in Brazil: A stakeholder analysis on medicine promotion during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Measurement of unmet need for contraception: a counterfactual approach
(Wiley, 2022-12)Unmet need plays a critical role in reproductive health research, evaluation, and advocacy. Although conceptually straightforward, its estimation suffers from a number of methodological limitations, most notably its reliance ... -
Unwanted family planning: prevalence estimates for 56 countries
(Wiley, 2023-03)While there is a large literature on the prevalence of unmet need for family planning, there is no matching quantitative evidence on the prevalence of unwanted family planning; all contraceptive use is assumed to represent ... -
Lifting the Curse of the Blue Diamond: Explaining the Normalization of Relations Between Saudi Arabia and Thailand
(2023-03-31)Thirty years ago, Saudi Arabia downgraded their diplomatic and economic relationship with Thailand due to a series of crimes that occurred between 1989 and 1990. Namely, a gem heist committed by a Thai janitor in Riyadh, ... -
Manifesting the embedded developmental state: the role of South Korea’s National Pension Service in managing financial crisis
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-12-07)Financial liberalization has noticeably reduced the role of the state in effectively influencing the economy in post-developmental states. Yet many studies have found that the legacies of the developmental model continue ... -
Japanese aspirations for the Indo-Pacific economic order
(Korea Economic Institute of America, 2022)[Since the 1960s, postwar Japan has been trying in various ways to define its role as a regional power. While its goal of achieving economic and political stability via regional cooperation has been fairly consistent, the ...
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