Kennedy Spearheads New Strategy
fall 2008 KENNEDY SPEARHEADS NEW STRATEGY How is power exercised and security achieved among the world’s cultures and nations? How does so much pov- erty and inequality persist in a world of such plenty? How is our world governed and policy most effectively made? David Kennedy ’76, Brown’s vice presi- dent of international affairs, has been posing these questions since becom- ing interim director at the Watson Insti- tute in July, as he leads deliberations on the Institute’s strategic growth. Kennedy calls this a transformative moment for the Institute, as a linchpin crime war of the University’s expanding interna- Peter Andreas’s new book depicts the tional agenda. Bosnian capital’s 1990s spiral into a criminalized war economy – in a setting “For over two decades, the Watson of ethnic conflict, humanitarian inter- Institute has analyzed global politics, vention, and intense media coverage. power, and society – becoming known David Kennedy Page 10. for questioning settled policy prescrip- tions, thinking outside the range of Today, with even more room for critical conventional debate, and working inquiry into the nature of security and across academic disciplines to identify the future of globalization, the Institute new causes and cures for urgent inter- is poised for growth. national problems,” he says. “Going forward, we will probe these “One of the things I’m most proud questions with increased rigor, estab- about at the Watson Institute is the lishing new collaborations with Brown extent to which we focus on history colleagues and growing the Institute’s and context, bringing deep background cohort of researchers from around the knowledge to bear on the issues we in- world,” Kennedy says.
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