Project is a collaborative project of researchers in India and Brown University. The project aims to systematically collect data on urban India, focusing in particular on assessing the quality of ...

CLACS-affiliated graduate students, Licelot Caraballo (Anthropology), Lauren Prince (Africana Studies), and Alexandria Miller (Africana Studies), will be discussing Afro-Caribbean Feminisms as part of ...

The state and governance in China have commonly been seen as non-religious. However, this does not imply they are devoid of ritualistic elements. As both the current CCP leadership and ordinary people ...

Join us in conversation with Catarina Lorenzo, Director of the RI-based organization Alliance to Mobilize our Resistance (AMOR); Liz Sweet, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and ...

Are you a Brown University Ph.D. student working in Latin America or the Caribbean? If so, you may be interested in applying for the 2025 Field Research Pre-Dissertation Grants.

Costs of War’s Consuming War research series showcases how, every day, Americans are inundated with cultural products promoting militarism. From movies and video games to sporting events, our ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...

Some lawmakers are calling on Congress to increase defense spending even above the historically high level requested by the Biden administration, citing current high rates of inflation. But there is ...

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.

Through Fiscal Year 2022, the United States federal government has spent and obligated $8 trillion dollars on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere. This figure includes: ...

At least 940,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. The number of people who have been wounded or have fallen ill as a result of the ...

Data from The United States Budgetary Costs of Post-9/11 Wars (2021) by Neta Crawford. An important macroeconomic impact of federal spending on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been to raise the ...