Political Science News and Events

Elizabeth Cohen discusses immigration policy in 2021 in AlterNet piece

"From a failure to rescind the former president's Title 42, causing almost all recent asylum-seekers to be expelled from the U.S., to President Biden's equivocation on the 2021 refugee cap, it's almost impossible to find good news about immigration policy in 2021," writes Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science.
April 30, 2021

See related: Refugees, U.S. Immigration, United States

Shana Gadarian Earns Prestigious Carnegie Fellowship

Gadarian is the third Maxwell faculty member to earn the award in the past four years.
April 28, 2021

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Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

Following the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden called for changing policing by "acknowledging and confronting, head-on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly." One such idea is to abolish the police. Proponents think communities can work together to regulate themselves without "anti-Black, white supremacist institutions," like the American criminal justice system and policing—which got its start with slave patrols—according to Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. Read more in the Vox article, "9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing." 
April 27, 2021

See related: Civil Rights, Crime & Violence, Race & Ethnicity, Social Justice, State & Local, United States

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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Impacts on International (Dis)Order

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Carnegie Mellon University, School of International Service at American University and Syracuse University invite you to join leading experts for a virtual panel discussion on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Impacts on International (Dis)Order. Will the Euro-Atlantic alliance persevere or will Putin succeed in fracturing it?

Moderated by Michele Kelemen of National Public Radio.

Featuring:

Brian Taylor, professor of political science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

James Goldgeier, professor of international relations and former dean, School of International Service, American University

Amb. Sarah Mendelson, Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy and head of Heinz College in Washington, D.C., Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

To help shape the conversation, please pre-submit questions for the panelists by emailing jhatfiel@andrew.cmu.edu.

To join us, please register by Monday, May 2. You will receive a Zoom login link in a confirmation email.

Category

Social Science and Public Policy

Type

Discussions

Region

Virtual

Open to

Public

Organizer

Political Science Department

Contact

Paul Mackanos
315.443.9868

pjmackan@syr.edu

Accessibility

Contact Paul Mackanos to request accommodations


Political Science Department
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