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www.watsoninstitute.org Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies presents: The European Union in a Moment of Crisis (October 28-29). It is a two-day exploration of the EU at this pivotal moment in its history analyzing its institutional, financial, and foreign policy issues. Four separate panels featured two of Europes leading political figures: past European Commission President Romano Prodi (the former Italian prime minister who is now a Brown professor at large) and ...

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www.watsoninstitute.org Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies presents: The European Union in a Moment of Crisis (October 28-29). It is a two-day exploration of the EU at this pivotal moment in its history analyzing its institutional, financial, and foreign policy issues. Four separate panels featured two of Europes leading political figures: past European Commission President Romano Prodi (the former Italian prime minister who is now a Brown professor at large) and ...

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Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of one of the 20th century's most revered and peaceful activists, speaks about the links between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. ---- Author, professor, and humanitarian Rajmohan Gandhi spoke on the merits and influence of nonviolence, and more specifically about his iconic grandfather, Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. on the afternoon of November 15. His lecture, part of the Universitys Year of India series, filled the Salomon Centers ...

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www.watsoninstitute.org Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies presents: The European Union in a Moment of Crisis (October 28-29). It is a two-day exploration of the EU at this pivotal moment in its history analyzing its institutional, financial, and foreign policy issues. Four separate panels featured two of Europes leading political figures: past European Commission President Romano Prodi (the former Italian prime minister who is now a Brown professor at large) and ...

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www.watsoninstitute.org Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies presents: The European Union in a Moment of Crisis (October 28-29). It is a two-day exploration of the EU at this pivotal moment in its history analyzing its institutional, financial, and foreign policy issues. Four separate panels featured two of Europes leading political figures: past European Commission President Romano Prodi (the former Italian prime minister who is now a Brown professor at large) and ...

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Brown University researchers have been at the center of a surge of new discoveries about the moon that have reinvigorated public interest in Earths nearest celestial neighbor and reset scientific thinking about the moons origins and evolution. We sat down with scientists who have played major parts in recent lunar research missions.

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Sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies www.watsoninstitute.org "A European Perspective on Healthcare and a Comparison with US Reforms," with Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy and past president of the European Commission; and Flavia Franzoni, adjunct professor of politics for social inclusion at the University of Bologna. Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy, is a Brown University professor-at-large. In addition to serving as two different terms as ...

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Presented by the Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies www.watsoninstitute.org The rise of an Indian "juristocracy" will increasingly reshape the fundamental association of law and order in the country, according to noted political theorist and writer Pratap Bhanu Mehta. His recent lecture at Watson, "On the Construction of Judicial Authority: Courts and Public Reason in India," focused on this gradual buildup of political power by the judicial branch of the Indian ...

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Presented by the Watson Institute for International Studies "Coming Through Crisis: A New Economic Model Emerges in Latin America," with Ricardo Lagos Escobar, University Professor at Large and former President of Chile. As university professor at large, Lagos spends several weeks in residence during the course of each academic year, delivering public lectures, working with students both in class and outside of the classroom, and participating in events and research discussions at the ...

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www.brown.edu The lead attorneys from the DC v Heller decision discuss the case. Sponsored by the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Featuring Joseph Blocher and Alan Gura. District of Columbia v. Heller upheld the second amendment right to possess a firearm for private use. It is considered a landmark case because it was the first time since 1939 (United States v. Miller) the court directly addressed the right to own firearms as an individual right as opposed to one that applied ...

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