Global Security
Research in this thematic area integrates theory and policy to analyze the most pressing threats and significant vulnerabilities of global security. The prevention of violence, the mitigation of war, and the construction of peace constitute the major concerns addressed. Critical security issues are investigated not only as conflicts among states but as effects of new global actors, transborder flows, and complex networks.
Beyond Terror: Innovating Global Security and Global Media for the 21st Century
Nuclear Dilemmas in the 21st Century
Poverty, Inequality, and Development
The Watson Institute is advancing the comparative study of global economic and political transformations - particularly the dynamics of global integration and the inequalities it produces and perpetuates - with the aim of fashioning policy solutions.
Global Governance
The Institute is establishing a sustained, cross-disciplinary conversation among academics and leading thinkers from the fields of law, social science, and the humanities to produce innovative ideas on global governance and new ways to address pressing global issues.
International Norms and Sanctions
Muabet - Local Dimensions of Democracy-building in Southeast Europe