ANNUAL REPORT 2007

ABOUT THE COVER

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of Ramadan Mosque in central Baghdad – a

symbol of Iraq’s enduring place at the center of

global policy debate.

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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

Brown University’s Watson Institute for

International Studies is a leading center for

research and teaching on international affairs.

The Institute’s research is organized around some

of the most important questions of our time: on

global development, environment, security, and

related cultural issues.

ABOUT THE ANNUAL REPORT

This printed annual report for the fi scal year 2007

highlights selected accomplishments from July

2006 through June 2007 and previews the year

ahead. Unless noted, project and faculty details

refer to FY07.

The Watson Institute’s interactive annual report

provides access to more complete and up-to-date

information on the Institute and its faculty at:

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“These have been humbling times, all too painfully highlighting the limits of our ability

to anticipate and predict social, political, and economic change in the international

arena. At the same time, we have never had greater need for knowledge and

understanding of international events and the forces propelling them.” – Howard R.

Swearer, former president of Brown University and fi rst director of the Watson Institute

Uttered in 1990, in the aftermath of the Cold War, President Swearer’s comments all

too readily capture the state of international relations today. The complexity of the

modern world continues to open new and untenable gaps in our understanding of

critical issues. In the face of such mounting problems as climate change, threats to

security, and discord among nations, we must also face up to the limited range of our

solutions.

In my fi rst year as the Howard R. Swearer Director of the Watson Institute, I have

come to understand and better appreciate the strengths of this Institute. Among them

are its deep commitment to improving international relations and its fi rm mandate to

offer alternative solutions to pressing problems. Its distinctive culture breaks down the

barriers between academic disciplines and national origins – between scholars and

policymakers – to look at these matters in entirely new ways. Its connections to Brown

University and key role in advancing the University’s international leadership place it at

the nexus of a rich and growing global network of scholarship.

In the spring, the Watson Institute launched a Globalization and Inequality Initiative

that will bring these strengths to bear on one of the defi ning issues of our time. With

all its promise of opportunity, the global integration of our society and economy has

also produced new forms of exclusion that require attention and action.

This growing imbalance is now another area in which Watson is working to close the

gaps in our understanding and expand our range of options. With this annual report,

I invite you to explore some of Watson’s accomplishments in doing just that over the

past academic year – and to preview the coming year with us.

Barbara StallingsDirector, Watson InstituteNovember 2007

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Today’s global climate is marked by a plethora of complex issues, the resolutions

to which demand the kind of informed and open dialogue designed to promote

broad understanding and benefi cial change. Many of these issues, including those

affecting global health, the environment, education, economic conditions, and

world peace, fail to receive the attention they deserve, thus impeding progress. The

Academy has an important role to play in shedding light on the critical issues of our

time and inspiring global cooperation and solutions.

Education is known to bring people together to explore and resolve intractable

problems. Brown University is currently increasing its involvement in world affairs

and its connections to international learning and cultural institutions. This University-

wide effort will expand the opportunities our students and faculty have to engage

with the global community and learn from their shared experiences.

The Watson Institute for International Studies has been central to the University’s

plans to widen its global horizons. In the past year, one-third of the Watson Institute’s

100 faculty and visiting fellows came from outside the United States, bringing with

them a rich tapestry of knowledge, perspectives, and beliefs. More than half of the

graduates in International Relations studied abroad, and approximately 10 percent of

the students within this concentration came from overseas to study in the program.

These numbers represent a growing network of academics and policymakers

focused on addressing matters of global concern. The programs within the Watson

Institute and the international perspectives embedded in different sectors of Brown’s

curriculum are teaching students that many of the most pressing issues cut across

borders and transcend race, religion, and class status. What they are learning now

will train them to understand the diverse needs of developing countries, meet the

challenges associated with global healthcare and security, and lead the way to a

more collaborative future.

I congratulate the Watson Institute on a year of accomplishment and look forward to

its continued leadership as Brown solidifi es and expands its relationships within the

international community.

Ruth J. SimmonsPresident, Brown University

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The deluxe Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia as seen by a poor worker

What issues defi ne our world? How do we think about these issues? What do we do

about them?

This basic set of questions drives the Watson Institute continually to challenge

conventional wisdom, look at problems in new ways, and seek viable alternatives in

today’s turbulent global policy arena.

Watson focuses its research in four intersecting fi elds, with growing programs on critical

matters of global development, environment, security, and related cultural issues.

The Institute’s approach to research is distinctive. Its analysis cuts across boundaries

– geographic, thematic, and academic – to produce fresh insights into world affairs. Its

perspectives are multidisciplinary and multinational, involving expanding networks of

international scholars and practitioners in residence and around the world.

At Watson, anthropologists can be found working with international relations theorists to

understand issues of war and peace. Social and natural scientists come together to run

climate change scenarios. Academics and policymakers from Iran and the United States

sit in the same room to analyze diplomatic failures.

The Institute’s goal is always to be relevant to policy deliberations on pressing problems

– in part, by including policy practitioners in the defi nition, execution, and dissemination

of its research. The Institute works closely with key organizations such as the United

Nations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations.

Watson is also breaking ground in the academic use of media to disseminate research

fi ndings for greater impact – with noted fi lmmakers and broadcasters in residence

producing media with scholars. Just as innovative are the ways in which the Institute

teaches and involves Brown students in its research – and the ways in which Watson’s

Choices for the 21st Century Education Program tailors this research for use in

secondary schools across the country.

The following pages draw selected highlights from Watson’s four programs and 40

research projects to demonstrate the Institute’s alternative insights, methods, and

research in international affairs.

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Noted development economist William Easterly at Watson

The book, Policing the Globe

Brown Professor Glenn C. Loury speaking on inequality

Watson continued to grow its body

of work on the dynamics of global

integration last year – launching

its signature Globalization and Inequality Initiative and announcing

the new William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics to be housed at

the Institute.

The Globalization and Inequality

Initiative addresses the reality that global

integration today is creating opportunities

for some nations, businesses, and

individuals – but not all. Emerging and

persistent inequalities exclude many

groups and even entire nations from

the potential benefi ts of globalization.

This, in turn, is generating new political,

institutional, and security problems that

require attention and action.

Under the leadership of Watson Institute

Director Barbara Stallings, the three-year

Globalization and Inequality Initiative will

be anchored in four multidisciplinary,

policy-relevant research projects

addressing both international and intra-

national inequality. It will analyze:

· the dramatic divergence of per capita income between and within countries;

· the causes and consequences of gender inequalities in health, education, and mortality;

· the emergence of global regimes and their relationship to inequality; and

· culture and inequality in the developing world.

Looking at globalization through a very

different lens is the new Rhodes Center

for International Economics, launched

with a $10 million gift to Brown from

Watson overseer William R. Rhodes ’57.

The Rhodes Center, directed by noted

Brown Economics Professor Ross Levine,

will explore areas of international trade,

fi nance, and entrepreneurship.

For years, established Watson programs,

projects, and the publications they

have produced have been dedicated

to many other issues born of global

integration. These range from the Global Environment Program to the Human Traffi cking and Transnationalism project

to the Global Media Project. The results

are evident in publications at the Institute,

such as the Studies in Comparative International Development journal and

books including Associate Professor

(Research) Peter Andreas’s Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations

(Oxford University Press, August 2006).

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Watson’s Global Environment Program

has become the hub of several

overlapping networks of scholars and

practitioners around the world. It is a

model of the Institute’s evolution toward

an increasingly international research

network – drawing on the widest diversity

of academic, political, and social views

and reaching the broadest audience.

With the graduation of the latest class of

Watson International Scholars of the Environment, this research and policy

network now reaches over 35 developing

countries.

The International Scholars of the

Environment project convenes mid-

career environmental specialists

from universities, governments, and

nongovernmental organizations in the

developing world for a semester-long

course in multi-disciplinary environmental

science. Funding is provided by the Henry

Luce Foundation, with the endorsement

of the United Nations Environment

Programme, for both the international

scholars and summer interns who return

with them to work in the fi eld.

Cameroonian Benjamin Tchoffo

demonstrated the power of this network

as he furthered his research at Brown

on farmers’ slash-and-burn approach

to clearing land – then presented

policy solutions not only to his national

authorities but also to environmentalist Al

Gore and his Climate Project network.

Led by Director Steven Hamburg, the

Global Environment Program is also at the

center of other key networks, as the new

co-secretariat of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network,

the organizer of the Middle East Environmental Futures collaborative, the

convener of natural and social scientists in

the new Global Environmental Change Scenarios Project, and author of policy

options for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Moreover, the program’s international

footprint is expected to expand with the

fi ve-year tenure at Watson of Ricardo

Lagos, former Chilean president, UN

special envoy on climate change, and

now a Brown professor at large.

The UN fl ag

A Middle East Environmental Futures landscape by Benjamin Pitt ’06

Watson International Scholar of the Environment Benjamin Tchoffo

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The number of international peacekeeping

forces worldwide has quadrupled in

the past 10 years to more than 100,000

today – most of them UN-led. With

warriors playing new roles as mediators,

ambassadors, police, and aid workers –

for enduring periods of time – the Watson

Institute has taken up the key questions

they face and confl icts they cause.

A project on Conduct and Discipline in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Culture, Political Economy, and Gender was

expanded last spring with additional

funding from the Compton Foundation.

Professor (Research) Catherine Lutz, who

is leading the project with fi eld research

in Haiti, Kosovo, and Lebanon, has found

the lack of cultural awareness at the core

of many peacekeeping issues, such as

sexual exploitation of local women and

racial attitudes leading to violence. A

report to the UN will outline conditions

and practices that lead to such abuses.

The analysis of peacekeeping is also

a major component of the Cultural Awareness in the Military Project, which

looks more broadly at the military and

its integration of culture – well or poorly,

for war or peace, from Bosnia to Iraq.

Associate Professor (Research) Keith

Brown, Professor (Research) James Der

Derian, and Lutz have been co-leading the

project, which is analyzing the growing

attention paid to culture by US and UN

military institutions.

And, as peacekeeping missions become

more entrenched, Associate Professor

(Research) Peter Andreas’s fi ndings on

Bosnia – from war economy to post-

confl ict peacebuilding – will be published

in a book tentatively titled Black Markets and Blue Helmets: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Sarajevo

(Cornell University Press, 2008).

Looking ahead, UN Senior Political Affairs

Offi cer Susan Allee is in residence in

fall 2007 as a visiting fellow, bringing

along experience including six years of

running the Middle East desk in the UN

Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

Catherine Lutz’s work in Haiti

Peter Andreas in Sarajevo

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As groups that engage in terrorism

continue to adapt and grow, the Watson

Institute’s research points to the need to

innovate counter-terrorist efforts. Its work

also underscores the need to innovate

global security policy beyond terrorism

– addressing the wider range of threats

and vulnerabilities.

The leaders of the Targeting Terrorist Finances and Targeted Sanctions

projects have worked extensively in

the fi eld of counter-terrorism with the

United Nations, national governments,

and banks. Professor (Research)

Thomas J. Biersteker and Senior Fellow

Sue E. Eckert have found the groups

engaging in terrorism to be increasingly

versatile. New methods for tracking their

fi nances and targeting sanctions must

also be developed – while minimizing

societal costs. Their co-edited volume,

Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Routledge, 2007), was being published

as the academic year ended.

On another front, the Global Media Project received initial funding from

the Ford Foundation in the past year to

develop a documentary, Telling Terror’s Tales, tracing the historical development

and implications of terrorist use of media.

Expanding the debate beyond terrorism is

the Innovating Global Security Project, led by Global Security Program Director

James Der Derian and funded by the

Carnegie Corporation of New York. The

project has hosted diverse theorists at

Watson, exploring broader concerns

of human, network, and global security

– as well as an array of risks ranging

from resource confl icts to information

warfare. Findings will be published in an

edited volume.

A web complement, the Global Security Matrix, visually represents threats to

security. This analytical and educational

tool dynamically maps threats across

types of actors and categories of risks,

with security experts and students

providing rankings. Visitors to the site

discuss the implications online and listen

to podcasts of the Innovating Global Security Lecture Series.

The Global Security Matrix

Sue Eckert addressing UN offi cials

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How and why does an international

research institute incorporate new media

into its study and production of ideas?

These questions are being answered by

Watson’s Global Media Project, under

the direction of Professor (Research)

James Der Derian, as it pursues its dual

objectives of understanding the media’s

growing impact in international affairs and

producing media to address global issues.

Watson is integrating media into research

across the board to reach not only a wider

academic community, but also the policy

world and general public. The Institute has

already begun incubating documentaries,

producing radio broadcasts and

webcasts, screening fi lms, running blogs,

and developing other web-based content

and applications.

Award-winning documentary fi lmmakers

Eugene Jarecki and Deborah Scranton

’84 were visiting fellows during the past

year, conceiving documentary projects

with economists, international theorists,

and others at the Institute. Noted national

radio host Christopher Lydon, another

visiting fellow, frequently hosted Watson

voices on his Radio Open Source public

radio program; going forward, he is

developing new media projects involving

Watson and Brown faculty, visitors, and

speakers. Ongoing fi lm projects include

Der Derian’s The Culture of War and

Visiting Associate Professor Robert

Jensen’s A Nation without Women, on

the subject of “gendercide.”

The Institute’s media productions include

the web-based Global Security Matrix,

Critical Oral History fi lms, Targeted Sanctions online toolkit, Choices Program’s Scholars Online videos,

webcast events, Watsonblogs, and more.

Analyzing global media, Jensen delivered

some of the fi rst economic evidence of

information technologies’ benefi ts for the

world’s poor – documenting mobile phone

use among Indian fi shermen and cable

TV’s effects on rural Indian women.

Der Derian’s leading analysis on the

subject of media’s impact on international

affairs has been presented in various

academic settings and in the forthcoming

new edition of his 2001 book, Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network

(Routledge, March 2008).

A window’s refl ection captures broadcasters at a Watson event

Deborah Scranton

The book, Virtuous War

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Watson Institute Professor (Research)

James Blight and Adjunct Professor janet

Lang pioneered the method of critical

oral history in the study of recent US

foreign policy. The method effects the

simultaneous interaction, in a conference

setting, of

· declassifi ed documents on the events under scrutiny,

· key offi cials who participated in the events, and

· top scholars familiar with the documents and events.

Over the years, Blight and Lang have

applied this method most notably to the

Cuban missile crisis and the escalation of

the American war in Vietnam.

The method of critical oral history has

been featured in several documentary

fi lms with which the two have been

involved. Last year, they conceived an

initiative to take their fi lms on the road

– with an itinerary including Europe, Iran,

Russia, and the United States – and to

discuss how scholars in each location

might adopt the method for application

in their own research.

The fi rst “critical oral history fi lm festival”

was to take place in September 2007

at the Gelendzhik Summer School, on

the Black Sea in Russia. It is a part of a

Carnegie Foundation-funded program for

Russian specialists in international affairs,

Cold War history, and security studies,

organized by the National Security Archive

in Washington, DC.

The program included Dialogue of Enemies in the Vietnam War, an award-

winning 1998 fi lm made for Japan’s

NHK TV network by Daisaku Higashi,

about Blight and Lang’s 1997 Hanoi

conference on the war; The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, the Academy Award-

winning 2004 fi lm by Errol Morris, based

in part on their research; and Virtual JFK: Vietnam, if Kennedy Had Lived, a new

fi lm they are co-producing with director

Koji Masutani ’05, a visiting fellow.

A pensive President John F. Kennedy

Russian nametags for James Blight and janet Lang

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___ The Cultural Awareness in the Military project explored the increasing demand for anthropologists to act as military advisors, hosting a meeting with the American Anthropological Association’s Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities. The commission, invited by Associate Professor (Research) Keith Brown, is to provide AAA members with guidelines in November.

___ Global Environment Program Director Steven Hamburg was widely profi led in media such as the New York Times for his role in advising the giant retailer Wal-Mart, which launched a massive campaign to market energy-effi cient light bulbs and other “green” products.

___ A new project, Human Rights at War: A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of the Geneva Conventions, was launched by Associate Professor (Research) Nina Tannenwald. The project examines the application of the Geneva Conventions in times of war.

___ Adjunct Associate Professor Jo-Anne Hart’s research on US policy and strategy in the Persian Gulf was the basis of her briefi ng on crisis prevention to the US Navy command leadership of a Carrier Strike Group deploying into the Gulf.

___ New Climate Change Initiatives include explorations of the integrated dynamic global modeling of land use, energy, and economic growth, co-led by Assistant Professor (Research) Leiwen Jiang and funded by the US Department of Energy.

___ Breaking Ranks: An Oral History Project on Iraq War Veteran Dissent is a new project launched in the past year by Associate Professor (Research) Catherine Lutz. The stories being gathered from veterans and soldiers who oppose US involvement in the war in Iraq will be published and also stored in the oral history collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

___ Leading economists and political and social scientists gathered at the invitation of Brown Economics Professor Ross Levine to address The Causes and Consequences of Income Distribution. The event was the fi rst of a series of workshops planned under the three-year Globalization and Inequality Initiative.

Steven Hamburg

Jo-Anne Hart on an aircraft carrier

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___ Over 70 million boys and 150 million girls under the age of 18 are victims of violence, according to the United Nations’ 2007 World Report on Violence against Children. Visiting Professor Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro led the research for the report, including an expert consultation at the Institute in 2005.

___ The Global Environmental Change Scenarios Project was launched with the Global Environmental Futures workshop. Produced by Associate Professor (Research) Brian C. O’Neill, Assistant Professor (Research) Simone Pulver, and Visiting Fellow Stacy VanDeveer, the event brought together 50 scenarios scholars and practitioners to lay the groundwork for a multi-year research effort designed to advance scenario analysis of changes in the global climate and ecosystems.

___ The Middle East Environmental Futures project has begun correlating data from satellite imaging of African vegetation to the decrease in population of birds using the Eilat area of Israel as a stopover during migration. Adjunct Assistant Professor Yaakov Garb has initiated the research, one of several MEEF studies. It addresses one of the globe’s largest migrations – of some half billion birds of over 200 species.

___ Following the publication of Transacting Transition: The Micropolitics of Democracy Assistance in the Former Yugoslavia (Kumarian Press, 2006), its editor, Associate Professor (Research) Keith Brown, launched an essay competition for scholars and practitioners in the region. The aim is a companion volume of their writings on international involvement in regional transition, titled Evaluating Intervention: Local Perspectives on Democracy-building in the Post-Yugoslav Countries and Territories.

World Report on Violence against Children

The book Transacting Transition

Subject of Middle East bird migration study, by Benjamin Pitt ’06

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“This very reductionist view of the ‘good’ Americans and ‘evil’ Palestinians allows the international community to abrogate responsibility.”

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The Institute continued over the past year to expand its outreach to academic peers

and beyond – distributing its research fi ndings in a variety of traditional and new media

designed to reach policymakers, students, and the general public as well as scholars.

Watson faculty and fellows produced over 100 works – books, articles, reports, op-

eds, high school materials, and other printed publications, in addition to developing

documentary fi lms, webcasts, blogs, and online applications.

The diversity of output ranges from Social Democracy in the Global Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2007), co-edited by Watson Faculty Fellow Patrick Heller,

to the Targeted Sanctions Project’s online toolkit for designing sanctions to thwart

terrorism, to Virtual JFK: Vietnam, if Kennedy had Lived, a documentary in production

at the Institute.

Faculty continued to speak out on global matters in major newspapers and broadcast

outlets. Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former US Senator Lincoln Chafee ’75 exposed

the inner workings of the Senate’s vote for the Iraq war on the op-ed page of the New

York Times. In the Boston Globe, Professor (Research) Catherine Lutz deconstructed

the Bush administration’s new policy on military bases in Korea. Terrorist groups’ highly

effective media strategies were analyzed on public radio by Professor (Research) James

Der Derian, who is also director of the Global Security Program.

Documentary fi lmmakers and other media producers have taken up residence at Watson

to work directly with scholars to reach new audiences in new ways. Increasingly, as

leading scholars and policymakers speak at Institute events, their ideas and insights are

broadcast live over the web to viewers around the world.

Pollution in the distressed Antarctic

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Watson faculty’s books over the past

year have provided alternative analysis of

international relations in method, history,

theory, and practice.

Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2007), co-authored

by incoming Political Economy of Development Director Richard Snyder,

illuminates the human dimension of

scholarship and the intricacies of the

research process, through in-depth

interviews with 15 leading scholars in the

fi eld of comparative global politics.

Refl ecting on international relations past is

a three-volume translation of the Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (Penn State

University Press, 2005-07). The fi nal book

in the series was released in the spring

in English and Chinese by Watson Senior

Fellow Sergei Khrushchev, his son, in a

joint initiative between Watson and Penn

State Press.

International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice

(Routledge, 2006), co-edited by Professor

(Research) Thomas J. Biersteker, gathers

scholars and policy practitioners from

both fi elds to examine the opportunities

for interdisciplinary research on new

issues that are little understood – for

instance, how to address the demands of

internally displaced persons.

Coming off the presses at the end of

the academic year was Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Routledge,

2007), analyzing the international

community’s efforts to cut off terrorist

funding. It was co-edited by Biersteker

and Senior Fellow Sue E. Eckert.

Looking forward, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons since 1945

(Cambridge University Press, 2007), by

Watson Associate Professor (Research)

Nina Tannenwald, is scheduled to be

published in December. It focuses on the

rise of a “nuclear taboo” in global politics

to explain why the US and other world

leaders have been repeatedly dissuaded

from using these “ultimate weapons.”

New books at Watson

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Last spring, as international bureaucrats

and national leaders considered the

fate of Paul Wolfowitz, soon-to-be-ex-

president of the World Bank, the student-

run Brown Journal of World Affairs

published its Spring/Summer 2007 issue

devoting an entire section to his tenure.

The issue clearly demonstrated the

Journal’s role in publishing at the

intersection of news and academic

theory. Contributions from such notable

fi gures as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz

underscored the students’ access to

leading thinkers on matters ranging from

globalization and sovereignty – themes for

the fi rst issue of the academic year – to

homegrown terrorism and environmental

security – themes for the second.

As the students describe their editorial

mandate: “Amid hyperbolic cable news

fl ashes and obfuscated government

information, distinguishing between

sensationalized claims of novelty and

substantive developments in world affairs

is now more diffi cult than ever. Such a

task, however, is necessary to fi nd the

right combination of historical context

and fresh perspective with which to

understand international relations.”

Also during 2006-2007, the editorial

collective of Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)

published the fi rst complete year of four

issues since the Institute became the

journal’s editorial headquarters in 2005.

SCID is an interdisciplinary journal

whose major areas of emphasis include

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. Watson

Institute Director Barbara Stallings serves

as the journal’s editor.

Looking forward, SCID in the fall

will publish its fi rst special issue

– “Developing Country Firms as Agents

of Environmental Sustainability?” – guest-

edited by Assistant Professor (Research)

Simone Pulver.

Journals published at the Institute

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In the past year, Watson research fi ndings were brought to the academic world, policy arena, and general public via books, fi lm projects, and other publishing activities. In addition to works mentioned throughout this annual report and on the Institute’s website, they include the selected titles below.

Works on democracy included:

___ “Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? A Political Economy of Extraction Framework,” by Richard Snyder, incoming director of the Political Economy of Development Program, in Comparative Political Studies

___ Local Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics (New York University Press, 2007), co-authored by Professor (Research) Catherine Lutz

___ Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007), by Melani Cammett ’91, outgoing director of the International Relations Program

___“Political Inclusion and Parliamentary Changes among Thirteen States in Former British Africa,” by Adjunct Professor Newell Stultz, in Africa Insight

Works on the military and war included:

___ “Grunt Lit: The Participant Observers of Empire,” by Associate Professor (Research) Keith Brown and Professor (Research) Catherine Lutz, in American Ethnologist

___ Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry (Columbia University Press, 2006), by Adjunct Professor Peter Dombrowski

___ Confl ict in Iraq: Searching for Solutions, a new high school instructional guide from Watson’s Choices Education Program

___ “Samson or Goliath? Gulliver after Iraq,” by Adjunct Professor Linda B. Miller, in International Politics

___ “Individual and Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity,” by Adjunct Professor Neta Crawford ’85, in Journal of Political Philosophy

___ “Shooting Afghanistan: Beyond the Confl ict,” a photo essay by Visiting Fellow Michael Bhatia ’99, for theGlobalist website

New books at Watson

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The Russian translation of Odessa, a History

A photo essay on Afghanistan

Works on Islam included:

___ Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006), co-edited by Visiting Fellow Eleanor Doumato

___ Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007), by Adjunct Professor William F.S. Miles

Translated books and other works in foreign languages included:

___ Odessa: A History, 1794-1914 (Russian translation, Optimum Press, 2007), by Adjunct Professor Patricia Herlihy

___ “Anticommunism,” “Hannah Arendt,” and “Totalitarianism,” by Adjunct Professor Abbott Gleason, in Dizionario del Communismo nel XX Secolo (Einaudi, 2007)

___ “Mythology of Border Control,” by Associate Professor (Research) Peter Andreas, in Foreign Affairs En Español

___ “The Bet Jalla Bridge,” by Adjunct Assistant Professor Yaakov Garb, in the Hebrew-language journal Separation: The Politics of Israeli Space

Forthcoming books and media include:

___ Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism (University of California Press, October 2007), by Postdoctoral Fellow Winifred Tate

___ An edited volume, Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development, by Professor (Research) Kay Warren

___ Peace Parks: Conservation and Confl ict Resolution (MIT Press, September 2007), by Adjunct Associate Professor Saleem Ali

___ Women in Power: Women Deputies in Post-Communist Parliaments, co-edited by Adjunct Professor Marilyn Rueschemeyer

___ A documentary, “The Surge,” directed by Visiting Fellow Deborah Scranton ’84, for February 2008 broadcast on the Frontline public television program

___ Useable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research (Princeton University Press), by Adjunct Professor Dietrich Rueschemeyer

___ MideastEnvironet, a website aggregating news on the region’s environment, by the Middle East Environmental Futures project

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Brown University looks to the Watson Institute to help prepare its students to lead

lives of usefulness and reputation – in an increasingly global context. As a leading

center for teaching on international affairs, the Institute engages Brown undergraduate

and graduate students at many levels – housing several international academic

concentrations, teaching courses, involving students in its research, and managing

internships around the world.

The Institute’s distinctive multidisciplinary approach to research applies to its teaching

as well. And now, Watson is also exposing Brown students to a greater mix of theory

and practice, with the launch last spring of study groups featuring leading international

policymakers and practitioners.

Watson oversees one of Brown’s largest academic concentrations – the International Relations Program – with over 400 students. Also at the Institute are the Development Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, and South Asian Studies

concentrations and the Graduate Program for Development. Some 50 courses are

taught by Institute faculty and fellows.

The Institute also gives students extensive opportunities to gain practical experience and

exposure. Students are involved in the research and life of the Institute, with over 100

working as research assistants, student rapporteurs, and in other capacities last year.

The internationally renowned Brown Journal of World Affairs is run by undergraduate

students. Studies in Comparative International Development, another journal housed

at the Institute, involves graduate students in its editorial operations.

Internship programs focused on the environment, public service, and other aspects of

world affairs last year provided more than 20 students opportunities for fi eld research

and skills-building in international institutions and countries around the world.

Protesters at the 2007 G8 Summit raising an array of global issues

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___ Former US Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 led over 50 students in a study group on

Global Hot Spots during the spring semester, in his role as a Watson distinguished

visiting fellow. The sessions offered students interactive engagement with Chafee

and his guests from the policy arena, providing a behind-the-scenes look at

international relations in the making. Each of the seven not-for-credit sessions

provided analysis of a hot spot, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Venezuela. This

successful pilot of study groups at the Institute is being followed in the fall with fi ve

more, led by policymakers and practitioners in residence: Susan Allee, a senior

political affairs offi cer at the United Nations who has coordinated peacekeeping

operations in the Middle East; Leszek Balcerowicz, former deputy prime minister,

minister of fi nance, and president of the National Bank of Poland; Fernando

Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil; Richard Holbrooke ’62, former US

ambassador to the UN; and Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile.

___ Watson and the Swearer Center for Public Service supported eight summer

internships for 2007 in such countries as Cambodia, Tanzania, and Turkey – and

in such organizations as the Clinton Foundation, International Rescue Committee,

and UNICEF. The students were supported by the Richard Smoke Summer Fellowships, the McKinney Family Internship, the Jack Ringer ‘52 Summer Internships, and the Marla Ruzicka International Public Service Fellowship. Eight

graduate and undergraduate fellowships for environmental research in developing

countries were supported last year by the Luce Environmental Fellows Program, administered by Watson’s Global Environment Program.

___ Graduating honors students in the International Relations Program last

spring presented theses on subjects ranging from the implications of blogging in

developing countries, to the relationship between China and Japan, to confl icts over

natural resources. The program challenges students to think and perform beyond the

undergraduate level. This is especially true for students who participate in the honors

program, which requires a senior thesis.

Gates Cambridge Scholarship awardee Kate Brandt ’07

International relations graduates

Rwanda genocide photo from intern Caitlin Cohen ’08

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___ Blogs, videoblogs, and pitches are the organizing tools of the innovative

undergraduate Global Media: History/Theory/Production course, taught by

Professor (Research) James Der Derian, Visiting Fellow Eugene Jarecki, and Visiting

Fellow John Phillip Santos. Classes bring documentary produc ers together with

international affairs researchers. Students are asked to pro duce “pitch-reels” – fi lm

clips used to pitch documentary ideas to producers.

___ The Graduate Program in Development is growing as an interdisciplinary

offering sponsored by Watson and Brown’s departments of Anthropology,

Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. The program enhances existing training

in the participating departments by providing courses in the fi eld of development, as

well as interdepartmental colloquia and new collaborative research initiatives. During

the past two years, the program has provided funding for summer fi eld work in

developing countries to 12 Brown doctoral students from across the social sciences.

___ The Center for Latin American Studies last spring announced that its new

Caribbean Initiative has chosen Cuba as the major thematic focus of its work in the

coming year. The Caribbean Initiative is a fl agship project resulting from the center’s

designation as an Undergraduate National Resource Center, with funding from the

US Department of Education. Brown’s student body had expressed a signifi cant

desire to learn more about this region of the world in a survey of over 900 students

conducted in the fall of 2005. The resulting Caribbean Initiative is a portfolio of new

endeavors, including Haitian Creole language instruction, a new Caribbean Forum

lecture series, and more.

___ Associate Professor (Research) Peter Andreas was appointed director of the

International Relations Program, following Faculty Associate Melani Cammett’s

directorship over the past year. The Institute created the new position of assistant

director, academic programs, for the program and appointed Adjunct Lecturer

Claudia Elliott PhD ’99, MA ’91. Gianpaolo Baiocchi, a new associate professor

(research), is incoming director of the Development Studies Program, following

Faculty Associate Louis Putterman’s directorship last year.

Louis Putterman, last year’s development studies director, hands out diplomas

Center for Latin American Studies Director James Green

Photo of Burmese refugees by intern Bremen Donovan ’08

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Watson’s Choices for the 21st Century Education Program is known for bringing

university-level research and innovative learning tools into secondary school classrooms

across the country. Its 32 curricular units bring critical world events to life for students in

fully one-third of America’s high schools. And, in the past year, the Choices Program has

broken new ground, launching a digital initiative that greatly expands its range.

Choices is integrating an array of online media with its printed instructional materials

on past and present international issues. One element, currently being piloted, is

Scholars Online, which provides podcasts, video feeds, and other means of access to

the university scholars who have contributed to the development of Choices curriculum

materials. Resources will include interviews with scholars tailored for use in classrooms,

for homework, and for professional development; online discussions with scholars;

and interactive maps and timelines with scholars acting as guides. Choices staff is

also developing lesson plans and activities that will engage students with these online

resources and teach a range of skills.

The fi rst set of online resources to be posted will complement four Choices units:

A Forgotten History: Slavery and the Slave Trade in New England; Global Environmental Issues: Implications for US Policy; The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons; and Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy. A forthcoming

curriculum unit on Iran will be issued as an integrated print-media package. New media

will be added to all Choices offerings over time.

Choices launched a new web site in early 2007 that will accommodate the digital

resources. As Program Director Susan Graseck describes it, the new digital initiative

will democratize learning, making scholars and resources accessible to any student,

anywhere. It augments Choices’ mission: to empower young people to be engaged

citizens capable of addressing international issues.

Soldier at China-North Korea border

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New curriculum units developed by the

Choices Program over the past year

included two forthcoming units: One is on

the history of Iran, funded by the Carnegie

Corporation of New York, and the other is

on Cuba after Castro, funded by the US

Institute of Peace.

Published in January, the Confl ict in Iraq: Searching for Solutions unit engages

students in such innovative exercises as

analyzing blogs from Iraq, role-playing,

and deliberating the policy options now

before national leaders. As in Choices’

other curriculum units on history and

foreign policy, readings and activities

focused on the history and current

challenges faced in Iraq were written by

professional staff at the Choices Program

in consultation with university researchers

and high school teachers. Eleven other

units were also updated during the year.

Choices’ Teaching with the News online

resources also kept pace with events

over the past year with new resources

on Violence in Darfur, and updates of

Terrorism: How Should We Respond?; Confl ict in Iraq; and North Korea and Nuclear Weapons.

Beyond encouraging students to learn

about global matters, Choices also aims

to give young people a voice in public

consideration of current international

issues and prepare them for their future as

voters and civic leaders.

Hundreds of high school students

presented their opinions on pressing

global issues directly to policymakers in

eight state capitals last spring, as part

of Choices’ ninth annual Capitol Forum on America’s Future. Schools in Illinois,

Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey,

Rhode Island, Washington, and West

Virginia held statewide forums. In each

state, students came from diverse high

schools statewide to discuss such global

issues as international security, climate

change, and immigration with their state

and federal representatives and other

policymakers.

Schools across the country also explored

alternatives to the statewide model

for Capitol Forums. In locations from

Seattle to Omaha to Portland, Maine,

experimental forums took place on a

school, district, or regional basis involving

students in dialogues on topics such as

genocide and nuclear proliferation.

Curriculum unit on Iraq

Choices homepage

Student at Casco Bay High School and her tale of escaping Sudan

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In the area of professional development

for teachers, the Challenges to National Security summer institute involved 21

high school teachers from nearly as many

states in a four-day teaching institute.

The institute provided an opportunity for

teachers to deepen their understanding

of the major security challenges facing

the United States and to explore effective

instructional strategies for engaging

adolescents in these issues.

Seven scholars from the Watson Institute

and beyond joined these teachers

in formal presentations and informal

discussions. Choices’ professional staff

balanced the scholar sessions with

workshop sessions. Choices expects

to continue working with many of the

teachers in this group as they, in turn,

provide leadership to peers.

A second summer institute, The Age of Imperialism to the Second World War, involved teachers from the Omaha Public

Schools in a six-day program funded

under a Teaching American History grant

from the US Department of Education.

Choices also continued its nationwide

outreach to high school teachers on the

subject of slavery and the slave trade in

New England.

In addition to workshops for teachers

in Rhode Island and elsewhere, the

program sponsored a keynote session

at the annual meeting of the National

Council for the Social Studies, the nation’s

largest association dedicated to social

studies education. Choices published

A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England in 2005

in collaboration with Brown University’s

Steering Committee on Slavery and

Justice. Since its publication, it has

reached almost 2,000 classrooms around

the country.

Teachers at the National Security summer institute

Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin, at institute for teachers

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The Watson Institute’s extensive schedule of events each year widens its range of

perspectives on world affairs – adding over 100 more voices to the already dynamic

discourse among its faculty, Brown affi liates, visiting scholars, practitioners-in-residence,

global research networks, and students.

Any given day of the academic year could fi nd a policy leader lecturing on current

events, a workshop advancing research on a chosen issue, a major conference exploring

global trends, a fi lm screening, or a training session for high school teachers.

Key speakers over the past year included Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to

the United States; Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth ’78; and James

Longley, an Oscar nominee for his Iraq in Fragments documentary.

Workshops and conferences brought natural and social scientists together to advance

research into global environmental futures; grappled with the increasing engagement of

anthropologists as military advisors; and considered current challenges to the study of

the Middle East and Islam in the United States.

New lecture and fi lm series included the Illicit Flows Series; Beyond Terror: Innovating Global Security for the 21st Century; the War, Peace, and the Media Screenings; and

Population and Environment in China and its Global Implications. New series from

the Center for Latin American Studies were also hosted at the Institute – among them,

the Caribbean Film Series, Rio Film Series, and Diplomatic Dialogues.

Watson also supported students and departments across campus in bringing

international speakers and exhibitions to Watson – such events as Darfur, Darfur; Strange

Times My Dear: The Battle for Freedom of Expression; Strait Talk Symposium; and the

Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium.

The Friends of the Watson Institute expanded the Institute’s events agenda to include

gatherings of alumni and other constituents in London, New York, and San Francisco.

Also reaching beyond campus were webcasts and web reports delivering Watson events

to a worldwide audience and capturing them in growing archive of modern thought on

world affairs.

Castro’s Cuba

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___ The War, Peace, and Media Screening Series drew important documentary

directors to show and discuss their fi lms, including Control Room director Jehane

Noujaim; Enron director Alex Gibney; and Who Killed the Electric Car? director Chris

Paine. The series, exploring “global interest media,” was coordinated by Professor

(Research) James Der Derian, director of the Global Security Program and Global Media Project, with Visiting Fellow Eugene Jarecki, an award-winning fi lm director.

___ The Illicit Flows Speaker Series, coordinated by Associate Professor

(Research) Peter Andreas, featured anthropologists, historians, political scientists,

and others examining how “illicitness” shapes the fl ows of people, goods, money,

and information outside legal channels of travel and commerce. Among the topics

addressed: scam letters in Nigeria, the underside of Turkey’s economic globalization,

and the political economy of Lebanese militias during the wars of 1975 to 1990.

___ The European Politics Seminar Series, coordinated by Adjunct Professor

Marilyn Rueschemeyer, considers the political, social, and economic issues

confronting Europe. In 2006-2007, the 50th anniversary of the European Union, the

series focused on the relation of domestic policies to issues of European integration.

___ Two of America’s leading foreign policy specialists took on the crucial question

of how to move US foreign policy beyond 9/11, Iraq, and the “war on terror” as

part of the Innovating Global Security Lecture Series. The debate between John

Ikenberry of Princeton University and Stephen Walt of Harvard University was

moderated by radio host and Visiting Fellow Christopher Lydon and is now part of

the new Open Source at the Watson Institute podcast series on the Institute’s

website. Coordinated by Der Derian, the series aimed to broaden the discussion of

security policy.

James Der Derian

Christopher Lydon and Harvard’s Stephen Walt

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___ The Rise of the New Asian Giants explored how rapid growth and the

expansion of trade in China and India have transformed the contemporary

international political economy, creating both challenges and opportunities for

other countries. Coordinated by Watson Director Barbara Stallings and Adjunct

Professor Marsha Pripstein Posusney, in conjunction with Bryant University, the two-

day conference was a step toward increasing the coverage of Asian subjects and

presence of Asian scholars at the Institute.

___ The past Social Entrepreneurship Seminar Series, featuring such innovators

as Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of the Global Voices international blogging

project, is succeeded in the coming year by The Next Generation of Corporate Responsibility, coordinated by Watson Fellow and Associate Director Geoffrey S.

Kirkman ’91 with Assistant Professor (Research) Simone Pulver.

___ The fi nal conference of Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter Zone of Empires since 1848 convened in May at the Herder Institute in

Marburg, Germany. Borderlands is a large-scale interdisciplinary and international

research project begun in 2003 to explore the origins and manifestations of ethnicity,

identity, and inter-group violence in the borderlands regions of East Central, Eastern,

and Southeastern Europe. Centered at the Watson Institute and led by Watson

Faculty Associate Omer Bartov, in cooperation with several other institutions, the

project will publish a collection of selected papers among the 150 it produced.

___ The Center for Latin American Studies launched its new Caribbean Initiative

with an art exhibit, “Venus in Chains: Representations of Sex and Slavery in the

Caribbean Basin.” The new Caribbean Forum lecture series, a part of the Initiative,

was also launched with a lecture on Haiti’s long history of authoritarianism.

Images of Watson events

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___ Diplomats and other leading policy fi gures speaking at Watson events in the past

year included Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United

States; Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a Brown professor

at large based at the Watson Institute; former US Senator and Distinguished Visiting

Fellow Lincoln Chafee ’75; Ambassador John J. Danilovich, chief executive of the US

government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation; former Czechoslovakian Foreign

Minister Jiri Dienstbier; Martin Palous, ambassador of the Czech Republic to the

United Nations; and Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States.

Their appearances were part of the Directors Lecture Series and the Center for Latin American Studies’ Diplomatic Dialogues.

___ Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, and Iranian novelists

Shahrnush Parsipur and Shahryar Mandanipour were among the writers participating

in Strange Times, My Dear: A Freedom-to-Write Literary Festival, organized by the

International Writers Project. Watson co-sponsors the IWP with Brown’s Program

in Literary Arts, with funding from the William H. Donner Foundation. Mandanipour,

who described the censorship he faces in Iran, spoke as the 2006-2007 IWP fellow

at Watson, where Kirkman co-directs the project.

___ The Colloquium on Comparative Research, a cross-disciplinary program tied

to the Graduate Program in Development at Watson, has become a fi xture on the

Institute’s calendar of events. Over the past year, under the coordination of Faculty

Fellow Patrick Heller and Faculty Associate Richard Snyder, a full slate of subjects

included Corruption as Practice and Discourse in India, Intervention and Ethnic

Confl ict in the 21st Century, Rethinking the Logic of Comparison in Urban Studies,

and many others.

Shahryar Mandanipour

Poster for Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong lecture

Lincoln Chafee

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“China will never seek hegemony.” Zhou Wenzhong, Chinese ambassador to the United States Sino-US Relations and China’s Foreign Policy

“None of the international structure from 1945 can confront the chaos.” Former Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier European Perception of US International Politics

“We live in funny times. It doesn’t surprise me that people are unlikely to accept scientifi c data. I just didn’t realize the press was among them.” Les Roberts, epidemiologist War and Health: The Casualty Toll in Iraq

“The deadening silence of a regime was broken and life emerged.” Martin Palous, ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Nations 30 Years after Charter 77

“Brazil, the sleeping giant, is awake.” Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso Brazil: A Latin American Nation?

“How do we balance the costs? What potential damage is done to our reputation as scholars, as a discipline, when we do engage?” Carolyn Fleuhr-Lobban, committee member Meeting of the Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, American Anthropology Association

“Europe is more important than sometimes you’re led to believe. She has the muscles, but does not always use them.” Anders Kruse, ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Understanding European Foreign Policy

“Novelists, like politicians, are trying to create a picture of the world; the politician just tends not to tell you that it’s fi ction.” Salman Rushdie, author Strange Times, My Dear: An International Festival in Celebration of Freedom of Expression

“It’s like a volcano that has erupted, and what do you do with that?” Washington Post foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid Iraq’s Tragedy: The Inevitability of Unintended Consequences

Brown Professor Robert Coover with author Salman Rushdie

Fernando Cardoso

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In the past year, the Watson Institute has stepped up the inclusion of policy practitioners

from around the world in its work – for more diverse ideas, greater policy relevance, and

a wider global reach.

In all, fully one-third of the Institute’s 100 faculty and fellows last year came from outside

the United States – from Azerbaijan, Burundi, Slovenia, Sudan, Tajikistan, and many

other countries. Twenty of the 100 were practitioners.

Among them, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lincoln Chafee ’75, Ricardo Lagos, and

Richard C. Holbrooke ’62 are widely recognized names in the international policy

arena – known as the former president of Brazil, past US Senator from Rhode Island,

former president of Chile, and US ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton

Administration.

The contributions of Institute-affi liated policy leaders and practitioners have been

honored in various ways in the past year: Lagos was named UN special envoy on

climate change; Senior Fellow Xu Wenli was elected chairman of the China Democracy

Party; Senior Fellow Catherine McArdle Kelleher received the American Political Science

Association’s Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service; and Visiting Fellow

Eugene Jarecki won a Peabody Award for his documentary Why We Fight.

Institute scholars are recognized for their work in fi elds ranging from anthropology and

economics to political science, sociology, and more. In the past year, Adjunct Professor

J. Ann Tickner fi nished out her term as president of the International Studies Association;

Catherine Lutz was awarded a yearlong fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced

Study at Harvard University; and Simone Pulver became the Joukowsky Family Assistant

Professor of International Studies at the Institute.

Notable visiting appointments during the year included Harvard law professor David

Kennedy ’76, later appointed Brown University’s vice president for international affairs;

Indian environmentalist Nadesapanicker Anil Kumar; Iranian author Moniro Ravanipour;

and Korean political science professor Heung Soo Sim, among others.

Rooftop of Sadr City, Iraq: a scene of new media and enduring cultural icons

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Winifred Tate

ADJUNCT LECTURER

Claudia Elliott PhD ’99, MA ’91

VISITING FACULTY

Arturo AlvaradoSam BarkinCristiana BastosNatalie BormannPierre BuyoyaRuth CardosoBrett HeindlRobert JensenThomas KalinowskiDavid Kennedy ’76Paulo Sèrgio PinheiroJeffrey Rothstein

VISITING FELLOW

Michael Bhatia ’99Lincoln Chafee ’75Hyekyung ChoJarat ChopraEleanor DoumatoMiguel GlatzerRafail HasanovEugene Jarecki Minh LuongChristopher LydonShahriar MandanipourKoji Masutani ’05Daniel OrensteinRichard PolonskyMoniro RavanipourJustine RosenthalZlatko SabicJohn Phillip SantosDeborah Scranton ’84Boimahmad SolievStacy VanDeveer

PROFESSOR AT LARGE

Fernando Henrique CardosoShirley Brice Heath Richard Holbrooke ’62

PROFESSOR (RESEARCH)

Thomas J. BierstekerJames BlightJames Der DerianCatherine LutzBarbara StallingsKay Warren

SENIOR FELLOW

Sue E. EckertMark GarrisonSusan GraseckCatherine McArdle KelleherSergei N. KhrushchevXu Wenli

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

(RESEARCH)

Peter AndreasKeith BrownBrian C. O’NeillNina Tannenwald

WATSON FELLOW

Geoffrey S. Kirkman ’91

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

(RESEARCH)

Leiwen JiangSimone Pulver

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Liza Bakewell PhD ’91, MA ’83

FACULTY FELLOW

Ross LevinePatrick Heller

FULBRIGHT FELLOW

Godfrey KimaroMarcin LubaHeung Soo Sim

VISITING SCHOLAR

Sandra Escovedo SellesLynne Star

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Saleem AliDouglas W. BlumKatrina BurgessSusan E. Cook ’85Neta C. Crawford ’85Peter DombrowskiYaakov GarbAbbott GleasonJoshua GoldsteinJo-Anne HartPatricia HerlihyElizabeth Dean HermannJane Jaquettejanet M. LangAbraham LowenthalStephen C. LubkemannWilliam F.S. MilesLinda B. MillerMarsha Pripstein PosusneyDietrich RueschemeyerMarilyn Rueschemeyer Thomas SkidmoreNewell StultzJ. Ann TicknerAnnick T.R. Wibben

WATSON SCHOLARS

OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Jokotola AkoniNadesapanicker Anil KumarShenghe LiuGracie Maximiano Benjamin Tchoffo

IN MEMORIAMIn remembrance of Hayward Alker, a leading academic in

the fi eld of international relations and an adjunct faculty member of the Watson Institute, we would like to express

our gratitude and deep appreciation for his life’s work.

ANNUAL REPORT 2007 37

Barbara Stallings, DirectorGeoffrey S. Kirkman ’91, Associate Director

Peter Andreas, Director, International Relations Program FY08Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Director, Development Studies Program FY08Keith Brown, Interim Director, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program FY07Melani Cammett ’91, Director, International Relations Program FY07James Der Derian, Director, Global Security ProgramSusan Graseck, Director, Choices Education ProgramSteven Hamburg, Director, Global Environment ProgramPatrick Heller, Director, Political Economy of Development Program FY07Louis Putterman, Director, Development Studies Program FY07Richard Snyder, Director, Political Economy of Development Program FY08Kay Warren, Director, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program FY08

Jon Buonaccorsi, Multimedia Specialist/Web DeveloperSusan Costa, Executive Assistant Jessica de la Cruz, Administrative AssistantClaudia Elliott PhD ’99, MA ’91, Assistant Director, Academic ProgramsMiranda Fasulo, Executive Assistant Sheila M. Fournier, Director, Finance and AdministrationFrederick F. Fullerton, Editor/WriterDeborah Healey, Program AssistantSusan Hirsch, Administrative CoordinatorMargareta Levitsky, Academic Programs CoordinatorKaren Lynch, Communications ManagerJillian McGuire, Outreach CoordinatorAnne Prout, Offi ce Manager Katherine Farrell Richardson, Events ManagerLaura Sadovnikoff, Program ManagerJosé Torrealba, Outreach Coordinator, Center for Latin American StudiesMichelle Travers, Administrative AssistantChoua Vang, Computing Operations ManagerEllen Carney White, Events Manager

Andrew Blackadar, Curriculum Developer, Research Associate, Choices Education ProgramMollie Hackett, Professional Development Director, Research Associate, Choices Education ProgramSarah C. Kreckel, CurriculumWriter, Research Associate, Choices Education ProgramSarah Massey, Program Associate, Research Associate, Choices Education Program

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The 2006–2007 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 raised outside funding from a variety of sources for specifi c research projects. During the 2006–2007 fi scal year, outside project funding amounted to just under $1.1 million.

OPERATING REVENUES

ENDOWMENTS

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES (FISCAL YEAR 2007)

OPERATING EXPENSES

PERSONNEL: FACULTY, STAFF, VISITORS

RESEARCH SUPPORT, CONFERENCES,TRAVEL, PUBLICATIONS

OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT

TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES AND ALLOCATIONS

OPERATING REVENUESLESS OPERATING EXPENSES

UNRESTRICTED

3,348,791

—

3,348,791

UNRESTRICTED

2,287,642

570,092

255,300

3,113,034

235,757

RESTRICTED

—

1,551,416

1,551,416

RESTRICTED

672,455

773,282

105,679

1,551,416

0

TOTAL

3,348,791

1,551,416

4,900,207

TOTAL

2,960,097

1,343,374

360,979

4,664,450

235,757

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

ANNUAL REPORT 2007 39

FY07 EXTERNAL GRANTS TO THE WATSON INSTITUTE

Carnegie Corporation of New YorkGlobal Security Program; Choices Education Program

Compton FoundationGlobal Environment Program; Politics, Culture, and Identity Program

Cranaleith FoundationChoices Education Program

Ford FoundationGlobal Security Program

International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysisGlobal Environment Program

Luce FoundationGlobal Environment Program

National Council for Eurasian and East European ResearchPolitics, Culture, and Identity Program

National Institutes of HealthGlobal Environment Program

National Science FoundationGlobal Environment Program

Ploughshares FoundationChoices Education Program

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced StudyPolitics, Culture, and Identity Program

Rockefeller Brothers FoundationPolitics, Culture, and Identity

US Department of EducationChoices Education Program

US Department of EnergyGlobal Environment Program

US Institute of PeaceGlobal Security Program; Choices Education Program

US National Intelligence CouncilGlobal Environment Program

University of Illinois/Urbana-ChampaignGlobal Environment Program

CO-FUNDED RESEARCH

Rhode Island Economic Development CouncilThe Directors Lecture Series on International Affairs

UC Santa BarbaraPolitics, Culture, and Identity Program

OTHER FY07 GIFTS

Mr. & Mrs. Robert BernsteinMr. & Mrs. John P. BirkelundStanley & Fiona DruckenmillerRobert & Wini GalkinJerry Potts ’84 & Dais SystemsMr. & Mrs. John N. RiccioIouri SamonovWilliam H. Donner FoundationWhitehead FoundationAnonymous Donors

FRIENDS OF THE WATSON INSTITUTE

Now entering its third year under the leadership of Institute Overseer Lucinda B. Watson, Friends of the Watson Institute provides a vehicle through which Brown alumni and others can reconnect to Brown and each other through a shared interest in international affairs.

BENEFACTORS

Charles S. Craig ’72 Ronald J. OehlDonald M. KendallRichard C. Barker ’57 Anson M. Beard, Jr. Richard Johnson ’72 Don McGrath

FOUNDERS

H. Anthony Ittleson ’60Robert Dineen ’63Charles M. Royce ’61Raymond E. KassarPatricia Swig DinnerSteven D. Grand-JeanAnders C.H. Brag P’08 Katherine A. Brown ’87

SPONSORS

Susan Buchanan ’82Richard L. FeigenFarooq KathwariMarc C. Bergschneider ’73Drew Mason ’89Harvey D. Hinman II ’62 & Peggy HinmanTully and Elise Friedman

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OFFICERS

ChairJohn P. Birkelund LLD ’02 hon.Saratoga Partners

Vice ChairDavid E. McKinneyIBM and Metropolitan Museum of Art ret.Thomas J. Watson FoundationBoard of Fellows, Brown University

SecretaryArtemis A.W. Joukowsky ’55 LLD ’85 hon.Brown UniversityBoard of Fellows, Brown University

OVERSEERS

Richard C. Barker ’57Capital Group International, Inc. ret.Board of Trustees, Brown University

Anders C.H. BragGARB Holdings LLC

Paul R. Dupee, Jr. ’65Private InvestorBoard of Trustees, Brown University

Kathryn S. Fuller ’68 LHD ’02 hon.Chair, Ford FoundationBoard of Fellows, Brown University

Fredric B. Garonzik ’64Mariner InvestmentsBoard of Trustees, Brown University

Vartan Gregorian LHD ’84 hon.Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Hon. Lee H. HamiltonWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Karen Elliott HouseDow Jones & Company and Wall Street Journal ret.

Robert H. LegvoldHarriman Institute, Columbia University

Daniel S. O’Connell ’76Vestar Capital Partners

Norman PearlstineThe Carlyle Group

William R. Rhodes ’57 LHD ’05 hon.Citicorp and Citibank, N.A.

Alfred C. StepanColumbia University

Frances StewartOxford University

Sir Crispin TickellUniversity of Kent at Canterbury

Sir Brian Urquhart LLD ’03 hon.United Nations ret.

Lucinda B. WatsonAuthor

The Hon. John C. WhiteheadUS Department of State ret.Whitehead Foundation

Susan L. WoodwardCity University of New York

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS

David I. Kertzer ’69Provost, Brown University Ruth SimmonsPresident, Brown University

Barbara StallingsDirector, Watson Institute

BOARD MEMBERS EMERITI

Teymour A. Alireza John S. Chen ’78 Mark Garrison The Hon. Leslie H. Gelb The Hon. Richard C. Holbrooke ’62 LLD ’97 hon.Marie J. Langlois ’64 LLD ’92 hon.Ann R. Leven ’62The Hon. Charles McC. Mathias The Hon. Thomas R. Pickering

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Thomas J. Watson Jr. ’37, a Brown alumnus widely recognized as a

former IBM chairman, began gathering scholars and policymakers at the

University in 1981 to focus on nuclear proliferation as the most pressing

global issue of his time. He had just returned from his post as US President

Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the Soviet Union; the Cold War defi ned

the global policy agenda. Twenty-six years later, the Institute dedicated to his

legacy addresses the world’s growing complexity in the wake of the Cold War.

Design by Jason Tranchida/LLAMAproduct, Providence, RI

Photos by Associated Press, Brown students, Brown University, Panos Pictures, Time Inc., Watson Institute faculty and staff, and the United Nations

Printing by Meridian Printing

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