The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña will give a talk on “Humanizing ...

Theresa has over 24 years of experience working in graphic design. An award winning designer, she has been the recipient of a Davey Award and a NCAMA Classified Advertising Award for Best ...

CLACS extends a warm welcome to CLACS Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña. This Spring, Dr.Umaña will be teaching LACA 1504Q: The War On Drugs From the Latin American Perspective: Current Issues and ...

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.

The creation of the new cabinet-level Homeland Security agency after 9/11 and the associated identification of a new homeland security mission to prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist ...

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 ...

Forced returns to Afghanistan continue, despite UNHCR’s non-return advisory. In 2023, over a million Afghans were forcibly returned from Pakistan and Iran. Various governments justify a trend of ...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University facilitates the study of this dynamic region from a multidisciplinary perspective. CLACS organizes academic conferences, ...

Stephen Semler is co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a think tank that works to align U.S. foreign policy with working-class interests. He also writes Polygraph, a data journalism ...

War’s destruction of economies, public services, infrastructure, and the environment leads to deaths that occur long after bombs drop and grow in scale over time. This report reviews the latest ...