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The U.S. budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan from FY2001-FY2022 totaled over 2.3 trillion dollars. The estimated U.S. budgetary costs of the wars in Iraq and Syria from FY2003-FY2023 totaled 2.9 ...

The Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy is pleased to provide resources to support three Brown University Ph.D. candidates with proposed research activities that align well with one or ...

Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) is a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Families create ofrendas ...

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a ...

Over the past decade, the U.S. military has implemented policies to promote gender equality, notably lifting the ban on women in combat roles in 2013 and opening all military jobs to women by 2016.

Dawn Brancati is Senior Lecturer in International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research focuses on peacebuilding, primarily on democratic tools to prevent and resolve violent conflicts ...

America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the ...

Jess Weng is a senior concentrating in Computer Science. Jess’ project with the Stone Inequality Initiative investigates intergenerational transmission of educational advantage. Based on research that ...

Some experts have argued that China’s military expenditures are far higher than official reporting would suggest, with one Senator claiming that China’s spending is roughly on par with U.S. spending.

Between 2021 and 2023, the U.S. government conducted counterterrorism operations in 78 countries. These operations include ground combat in at least nine countries and air strikes in at least four ...