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: ...

An initiative funded by the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation will explore the detrimental effects not just of inequality but of great wealth on democratic institutions. Watson asked political ...

Large defense contractors have played a central role in fighting the post-9/11 wars. They have provided workers who have engaged in direct combat and provided supplies, logistical services, and arms ...

The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism's triumph in ...

The knowledge of global scale climate change science is rich and well established, but understanding the variability in climate encountered at the local level is critical to sustaining human ...

Development in the age of globalization presents new challenges and opportunities. Globalization has not only accelerated the pace of economic transformation and social change, it has also ...

U.S. SUPPORT TO ISRAEL The attached paper calculates United States spending on Israel’s military operations, $17.9 billion, plus related U.S. operations in the region, from October 7, 2023 to ...

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.

This paper examines labor abuses during the war in Afghanistan, focusing on how the U.S. is denying legally-required compensation to foreign workers in war zones. The U.S. government leaned heavily on ...

David Vine is a political anthropologist and writer. David is the author of a trilogy of books about war and peace including "The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, ...

The Jindal Distinguished Lecture Series was endowed in perpetuity by Sajjan and Sangita Jindal to promote a serious discussion of politics, economics, social and cultural change in modern India. In ...

In this Feb. 18, 2020 photo, Burkina Faso paratroopers are being trained at the U.S. military-led annual Flintlock counterterrorism exercise in West Africa. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T Sy) United States ...