CLACS-affiliated graduate students, Licelot Caraballo (Anthropology), Lauren Prince (Africana Studies), and Alexandria Miller (Africana Studies), will be discussing Afro-Caribbean Feminisms as part of ...

Are you a Brown University Ph.D. student working in Latin America or the Caribbean? If so, you may be interested in applying for the 2025 Field Research Pre-Dissertation Grants.

Costs of War’s Consuming War research series showcases how, every day, Americans are inundated with cultural products promoting militarism. From movies and video games to sporting events, our ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...

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 ...

In the United States, following the 9/11 attacks, Muslims and people of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Arab descent became targets of government racial profiling practices. The U.S. government ...

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 ...

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, ...