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The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University is a center for research and teaching on international affairs. Working at the intersection of academia and policymaking, the institute analyzes contemporary global problems and proposes solutions. Its faculty, students, visiting scholars, and policy practitioners address critical issues related to global security, political economy and development, identity and culture, and the environment. Its current director is Prof. Barbara Stallings, a political economist known for her work in the field of international development. Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...
Background
The late Thomas J. Watson Jr. (Brown class of 1937), chairman of IBM and ambassador to the former Soviet Union, was acutely aware of the international dimensions of our lives. In 1981, Ambassador Watson founded the Center for Foreign Policy Development (CFPD) at Brown University to seek solutions to the most pressing problem of that day—the danger of a nuclear exchange between the superpowers. In 1986, Brown’s Institute for International Studies was created to integrate CFPD and Brown’s other international programs, and in 1991, the institute was rededicated to honor Ambassador Watson. It is housed in a building designed by internationally renowned architect Rafael Viñoly.
The Institute's Work
In the 1990s, the institute expanded its research agenda to match the growing complexity of global problems and built a research faculty with a broad range of disciplinary expertise and experience. Today its faculty of more than 150 professionals (at or affiliated with the Institute) includes leading researchers analyzing such issues as terrorist financing, global security and information technology, globalization and development, foreign aid, identity formation, and demography and the environment.
Instructional programs and the institute's Choices for the 21st Century Education Program bring its research to Brown undergraduates and to secondary-level schools nationwide. The institute is also the home for two major academic journals: Studies in Comparative International Development and the Brown Journal of World Affairs.
In addition, the institute is increasingly using media including documentaries and various web techniques to get its research out to policymakers and a concerned public. For instance, faculty members have advised on documentaries for television and film, including the Academy Award®-winning The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, and have produced the film After 9/11.
See also The Brown Journal of World Affairs is an American journal of international relations, published bi-annually at Brown University. ...
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