Economy of Security Series Kicks Off
The Project on the Political Economy of Security, a working group at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted their first presentation as part of the Boston Area Political Economy of Security Working Group at the Watson Institute at Brown University on February 26, 2016.
Jonathan Kirshner, the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Government at Cornell, kicked off the series with his talk titled “Political Economy and International Security: The State of the Art.”
Kaija Schilde, Assistant Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Project on the Political Economy of Security at the Pardee School, said the discussion set the tone for the rest of the series in laying out how economics impact security outcomes.
“Jonathan Kirshner’s talk was a broad, agenda-setting discussion of some of the key ways in which economics impacts security outcomes, from the security implications of changes in oil markets to the domestic and international security implications of political movements arising in response to global secular declines in growth,” Schilde said.
Schilde said she hopes the series of discussions will serve as a collaboration of economics and security experts.
“We are delighted to collaborate with leading scholars working at the intersection of economics and security from across the Boston-area and beyond,” Schilde said. “With this project, we plan to convene practitioners and scholars at the Pardee School to bridge academic disciplines and policy-academic divides.”