ANNUAL REPORT 2007

ABOUT THE COVER

A US military helicopter flies over the Fourteenth

of Ramadan Mosque in central Baghdad – a
symbol of Iraq’s enduring place at the center of
global policy debate.

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 fiscal 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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PRESIDENT’S LETTER 3

RESEARCH 4

PUBLISHING AND MEDIA 14

TEACHING / UNIVERSITY 20

TEACHING / SECONDARY SCHOOL 24

EVENTS 28

PEOPLE 34

FINANCES 38

DONORS 39

BOARD 40

HISTORY 41

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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 first 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 first 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 firm 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 defining 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 Stallings
Director, Watson Institute
November 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 beneficial 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 solidifies and expands its relationships within the
international community.

Ruth J. Simmons
President, Brown University

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

What issues define 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 fields, 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 definition, 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
findings for greater impact – with noted filmmakers 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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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 benefits 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;
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Noted development economist
William Easterly at Watson
The book, Policing the Globe
Brown Professor Glenn C. Loury
speaking on inequality
· 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,
finance, 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
Trafficking 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).
 The UN flag
A Middle East Environmental Futures
landscape by Benjamin Pitt ’06
Watson International Scholar of the
Environment Benjamin Tchoffo
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 field.
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
five-year tenure at Watson of Ricardo
Lagos, former Chilean president, UN
special envoy on climate change, and
now a Brown professor at large.
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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 conflicts 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 field 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.
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Catherine Lutz’s work in Haiti
Peter Andreas in Sarajevo
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 findings on
Bosnia – from war economy to post-
conflict 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
Officer 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.
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Sue Eckert addressing UN officials
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 field 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
finances 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 conflicts 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.
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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 films, running blogs,
and developing other web-based content
and applications.
Award-winning documentary filmmakers
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
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A window’s reflection captures
broadcasters at a Watson event
Deborah Scranton
The book, Virtuous War
developing new media projects involving
Watson and Brown faculty, visitors, and
speakers. Ongoing film 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 films, Targeted
Sanctions online toolkit, Choices
Program’s Scholars Online videos,
webcast events, Watsonblogs, and more.
Analyzing global media, Jensen delivered
some of the first economic evidence of
information technologies’ benefits for the
world’s poor – documenting mobile phone
use among Indian fishermen 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).
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Russian nametags for James Blight and janet Lang
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
· declassified documents on the events
under scrutiny,
· key officials 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
films with which the two have been
involved. Last year, they conceived an
initiative to take their films 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 first “critical oral history film 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 film 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 film by Errol Morris, based
in part on their research; and Virtual JFK:
Vietnam, if Kennedy Had Lived, a new
film they are co-producing with director
Koji Masutani ’05, a visiting fellow.
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 Steven Hamburg

Jo-Anne Hart on an aircraft carrier

___ 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 profiled 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-efficient 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 briefing 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 first of a series of
workshops planned under the three-year Globalization and Inequality Initiative.

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 World Report on
Violence against Children

The book Transacting Transition

Subject of Middle East

bird migration study,
by Benjamin Pitt ’06

___ 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.

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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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 Pollution in the distressed Antarctic

The Institute continued over the past year to expand its outreach to academic peers
and beyond – distributing its research findings 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 films, 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 filmmakers 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.
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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
field of comparative global politics.
Reflecting on international relations past is
a three-volume translation of the Memoirs
of Nikita Khrushchev (Penn State
University Press, 2005-07). The final 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.
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New books at Watson
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 fields 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.”
 Journals published at the Institute
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
figures as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz
underscored the students’ access to
leading thinkers on matters ranging from
globalization and sovereignty – themes for
the first 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
flashes and obfuscated government
information, distinguishing between
sensationalized claims of novelty and
substantive developments in world affairs
is now more difficult than ever. Such a
task, however, is necessary to find 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 first 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 first special issue
– “Developing Country Firms as Agents
of Environmental Sustainability?” – guest-
edited by Assistant Professor (Research)
Simone Pulver.
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 New books at Watson

In the past year, Watson research findings were brought to the academic world,
policy arena, and general public via books, film 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
___ Conflict 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 Conflict,” a photo essay by Visiting Fellow
Michael Bhatia ’99, for theGlobalist website

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

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 field research
and skills-building in international institutions and countries around the world.
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 Gates Cambridge Scholarship
awardee Kate Brandt ’07

International relations graduates

Rwanda genocide photo from

intern Caitlin Cohen ’08

___ 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 five
more, led by policymakers and practitioners in residence: Susan Allee, a senior
political affairs officer at the United Nations who has coordinated peacekeeping
operations in the Middle East; Leszek Balcerowicz, former deputy prime minister,
minister of finance, 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 conflicts 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.

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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

___ 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 producers together with
international affairs researchers. Students are asked to produce “pitch-reels” – film
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 field of development, as
well as interdepartmental colloquia and new collaborative research initiatives. During
the past two years, the program has provided funding for summer field 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 flagship 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 significant
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.

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 Soldier at China-North Korea border

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 first 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.
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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 Conflict 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?;
Conflict in Iraq; and North Korea and
Nuclear Weapons.
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Curriculum unit on Iraq
Choices homepage
Student at Casco Bay High School
and her tale of escaping Sudan
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.
 Teachers at the National Security summer institute
Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin,
at institute for teachers
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.
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 Castro’s Cuba

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 affiliates, visiting scholars, practitioners-in-residence,
global research networks, and students.

Any given day of the academic year could find a policy leader lecturing on current
events, a workshop advancing research on a chosen issue, a major conference exploring
global trends, a film 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 film 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.
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 James Der Derian

Christopher Lydon and

Harvard’s Stephen Walt

___ The War, Peace, and Media Screening Series drew important documentary
directors to show and discuss their films, 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 film 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 flows 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.

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 Images of Watson events

___ 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 final 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.

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 Shahryar Mandanipour

Poster for Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong lecture

Lincoln Chafee

___ Diplomats and other leading policy figures 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 fixture 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
Conflict in the 21st Century, Rethinking the Logic of Comparison in Urban Studies,
and many others.

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 Brown Professor Robert Coover
with author Salman Rushdie

Fernando Cardoso

“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 scientific 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 fiction.”
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

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

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-affiliated 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 fields ranging from anthropology and
economics to political science, sociology, and more. In the past year, Adjunct Professor
J. Ann Tickner finished 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.
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 IN MEMORIAM
In remembrance of Hayward Alker, a leading academic in
the field 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.

PROFESSOR AT LARGE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW FULBRIGHT FELLOW

Fernando Henrique Cardoso Winifred Tate Godfrey Kimaro
Shirley Brice Heath Marcin Luba
Richard Holbrooke ’62 ADJUNCT LECTURER Heung Soo Sim
Claudia Elliott PhD ’99,
PROFESSOR (RESEARCH) MA ’91 VISITING SCHOLAR
Thomas J. Biersteker Sandra Escovedo Selles
James Blight VISITING FACULTY Lynne Star
James Der Derian Arturo Alvarado
Catherine Lutz Sam Barkin ADJUNCT FACULTY
Barbara Stallings Cristiana Bastos Saleem Ali
Kay Warren Natalie Bormann Douglas W. Blum
Pierre Buyoya Katrina Burgess
SENIOR FELLOW Ruth Cardoso Susan E. Cook ’85
Sue E. Eckert Brett Heindl Neta C. Crawford ’85
Mark Garrison Robert Jensen Peter Dombrowski
Susan Graseck Thomas Kalinowski Yaakov Garb
Catherine McArdle Kelleher David Kennedy ’76 Abbott Gleason
Sergei N. Khrushchev Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro Joshua Goldstein
Xu Wenli Jeffrey Rothstein Jo-Anne Hart
Patricia Herlihy
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VISITING FELLOW Elizabeth Dean Hermann
(RESEARCH) Michael Bhatia ’99 Jane Jaquette
Peter Andreas Lincoln Chafee ’75 janet M. Lang
Keith Brown Hyekyung Cho Abraham Lowenthal
Brian C. O’Neill Jarat Chopra Stephen C. Lubkemann
Nina Tannenwald Eleanor Doumato William F.S. Miles
Miguel Glatzer Linda B. Miller
WATSON FELLOW Rafail Hasanov Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Geoffrey S. Kirkman ’91 Eugene Jarecki Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Minh Luong Marilyn Rueschemeyer
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Christopher Lydon Thomas Skidmore
(RESEARCH) Shahriar Mandanipour Newell Stultz
Leiwen Jiang Koji Masutani ’05 J. Ann Tickner
Simone Pulver Daniel Orenstein Annick T.R. Wibben
Richard Polonsky
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Moniro Ravanipour WATSON SCHOLARS
Liza Bakewell PhD ’91, MA ’83 Justine Rosenthal OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Zlatko Sabic Jokotola Akoni
FACULTY FELLOW John Phillip Santos Nadesapanicker Anil Kumar
Ross Levine Deborah Scranton ’84 Shenghe Liu
Patrick Heller Boimahmad Soliev Gracie Maximiano
Stacy VanDeveer Benjamin Tchoffo

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

Peter Andreas, Director, International Relations Program FY08

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Director, Development Studies Program FY08
Keith Brown, Interim Director, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program FY07
Melani Cammett ’91, Director, International Relations Program FY07
James Der Derian, Director, Global Security Program
Susan Graseck, Director, Choices Education Program
Steven Hamburg, Director, Global Environment Program
Patrick Heller, Director, Political Economy of Development Program FY07
Louis Putterman, Director, Development Studies Program FY07
Richard Snyder, Director, Political Economy of Development Program FY08
Kay Warren, Director, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program FY08

Jon Buonaccorsi, Multimedia Specialist/Web Developer

Susan Costa, Executive Assistant
Jessica de la Cruz, Administrative Assistant
Claudia Elliott PhD ’99, MA ’91, Assistant Director, Academic Programs
Miranda Fasulo, Executive Assistant
Sheila M. Fournier, Director, Finance and Administration
Frederick F. Fullerton, Editor/Writer
Deborah Healey, Program Assistant
Susan Hirsch, Administrative Coordinator
Margareta Levitsky, Academic Programs Coordinator
Karen Lynch, Communications Manager
Jillian McGuire, Outreach Coordinator
Anne Prout, Office Manager
Katherine Farrell Richardson, Events Manager
Laura Sadovnikoff, Program Manager
José Torrealba, Outreach Coordinator, Center for Latin American Studies
Michelle Travers, Administrative Assistant
Choua Vang, Computing Operations Manager
Ellen Carney White, Events Manager

Andrew Blackadar, Curriculum Developer, Research Associate,

Choices Education Program
Mollie Hackett, Professional Development Director, Research Associate,
Choices Education Program
Sarah C. Kreckel, CurriculumWriter, Research Associate,
Choices Education Program
Sarah 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 specific
research projects. During the 2006–2007 fiscal year, outside project funding
amounted to just under $1.1 million.

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

OPERATING REVENUES UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL

ENDOWMENTS 3,348,791 — 3,348,791

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS — 1,551,416 1,551,416

TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES

(FISCAL YEAR 2007) 3,348,791 1,551,416 4,900,207

OPERATING EXPENSES UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL

PERSONNEL: 2,287,642 672,455 2,960,097

FACULTY, STAFF, VISITORS

RESEARCH SUPPORT, CONFERENCES, 570,092 773,282 1,343,374

TRAVEL, PUBLICATIONS

OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT 255,300 105,679 360,979

TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES

AND ALLOCATIONS 3,113,034 1,551,416 4,664,450

OPERATING REVENUES
LESS OPERATING EXPENSES 235,757 0 235,757

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FY07 EXTERNAL GRANTS CO-FUNDED RESEARCH
TO THE WATSON INSTITUTE
Rhode Island Economic
Carnegie Corporation of New York Development Council
Global Security Program; The Directors Lecture Series on
Choices Education Program International Affairs
Compton Foundation UC Santa Barbara
Global Environment Program; Politics, Culture, and Identity Program
Politics, Culture, and Identity Program
OTHER FY07 GIFTS
Cranaleith Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bernstein
Choices Education Program
Mr. & Mrs. John P. Birkelund
Ford Foundation Stanley & Fiona Druckenmiller
Global Security Program Robert & Wini Galkin
Jerry Potts ’84 & Dais Systems
International Institute for Mr. & Mrs. John N. Riccio
Applied Systems Analysis Iouri Samonov
Global Environment Program William H. Donner Foundation
Whitehead Foundation
Luce Foundation
Anonymous Donors
Global Environment Program
FRIENDS OF
National Council for Eurasian and THE WATSON INSTITUTE
East European Research Now entering its third year under the leadership
Politics, Culture, and Identity Program of Institute Overseer Lucinda B. Watson,
Friends of the Watson Institute provides a
National Institutes of Health vehicle through which Brown alumni and others
Global Environment Program can reconnect to Brown and each other through
a shared interest in international affairs.
National Science Foundation
BENEFACTORS
Global Environment Program
Charles S. Craig ’72
Ploughshares Foundation Ronald J. Oehl
Choices Education Program Donald M. Kendall
Richard C. Barker ’57
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Anson M. Beard, Jr.
Politics, Culture, and Identity Program Richard Johnson ’72
Don McGrath
Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
Politics, Culture, and Identity FOUNDERS
H. Anthony Ittleson ’60
US Department of Education Robert Dineen ’63
Choices Education Program Charles M. Royce ’61
Raymond E. Kassar
US Department of Energy
Patricia Swig Dinner
Global Environment Program
Steven D. Grand-Jean
US Institute of Peace Anders C.H. Brag P’08
Global Security Program; Katherine A. Brown ’87
Choices Education Program SPONSORS

US National Intelligence Council Susan Buchanan ’82

Richard L. Feigen
Global Environment Program
Farooq Kathwari
University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Marc C. Bergschneider ’73
Global Environment Program Drew Mason ’89
Harvey D. Hinman II ’62
& Peggy Hinman
Tully and Elise Friedman

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OFFICERS Daniel S. O’Connell ’76
Vestar Capital Partners
Chair
John P. Birkelund LLD ’02 hon.
Norman Pearlstine
Saratoga Partners
The Carlyle Group
Vice Chair
William R. Rhodes ’57 LHD ’05 hon.
David E. McKinney
Citicorp and Citibank, N.A.
IBM and Metropolitan Museum of Art ret.
Thomas J. Watson Foundation
Alfred C. Stepan
Board of Fellows, Brown University
Columbia University
Secretary
Frances Stewart
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky ’55 LLD ’85 hon.
Oxford University
Brown University
Board of Fellows, Brown University
Sir Crispin Tickell
University of Kent at Canterbury
OVERSEERS

Richard C. Barker ’57 Sir Brian Urquhart LLD ’03 hon.

Capital Group International, Inc. ret. United Nations ret.
Board of Trustees, Brown University
Lucinda B. Watson
Anders C.H. Brag Author
GARB Holdings LLC
The Hon. John C. Whitehead
Paul R. Dupee, Jr. ’65 US Department of State ret.
Private Investor Whitehead Foundation
Board of Trustees, Brown University
Susan L. Woodward
Kathryn S. Fuller ’68 LHD ’02 hon. City University of New York
Chair, Ford Foundation
Board of Fellows, Brown University EX OFFICIO MEMBERS

David I. Kertzer ’69

Fredric B. Garonzik ’64
Provost, Brown University
Mariner Investments
Board of Trustees, Brown University
Ruth Simmons
President, Brown University
Vartan Gregorian LHD ’84 hon.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Barbara Stallings
Director, Watson Institute
The Hon. Lee H. Hamilton
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars BOARD MEMBERS EMERITI

Karen Elliott House
Dow Jones & Company and
Wall Street Journal ret.
Robert H. Legvold
Harriman Institute, Columbia University
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 ’62
The 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 defined
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.
1955

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