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Reeher speaks to the Independent about 2020 US political conventions
"The conventions this year might actually be more important than in relatively recent years past since the campaigns are very constrained in what they can do in person," says Professor Grant Reeher. "Those in-person events would normally drive a lot of the media coverage in the last few months of the campaign. But that is only if people watch the conventions." Reeher was interviewed for The Independent article "Could conventions matter more than ever this year?"
8/19/2020

Latest Maxwell Perspective previews public affairs issues for voters
The new edition of Maxwell Perspective — the School's magazine for alumni, students, parents, and other members of the Maxwell community — features faculty experts who provide background and context for many of the issues that will be influenced by this fall’s national elections. In the eight essays, scholars draw in historical background and larger trends to help explain the likely legacy of choices that citizens will make in the voting booth this November.
8/18/2020

Gadarian featured in Deseret News article on unmasked politicians
Even Republicans who are personally disposed toward best public health practices might weigh the political cost of wearing a mask. "That is a potential tightrope that Republican leaders are on right now," says Shana Gadarian. "The biggest risk is that the president will pick you out for ridicule, or if you had someone running against you, the president would endorse that person." Gadarian was featured in the Deseret News article "What’s in it for a politician not to wear a mask?"
8/18/2020

Reeher weighs in on Biden's gaffes in The Hill
Professor Grant Reeher says that while Trump had said much worse than Biden in terms of "levels of offensiveness or levels of insensitivity or thoughtlessness," the peril for the Democrat lay in a somewhat different area. "It is less clear that Biden is saying those things on purpose. In other words, there is this sense that he is not fully in command of what he is intending to say. ... That’s where the potential problem begins to open up for him." Reeher was interviewed for The Hill article "The Memo: Trump team pounces on Biden gaffes."
8/18/2020

McDowell research cited in Bloomberg article on financial cold war
A recent research study co-authored by Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science, was cited in the Bloomberg article "Can China Win the Financial Cold War?" McDowell argues that that the more the U.S. wields its unmatched financial power, the less it may have left.
8/18/2020

Lovely weighs in on postponed review of US-China trade deal in Reuters
"I think Trump is a little afraid that this triumph of his will be hung around his neck, but more purchases and a bit of a delay would clearly help," says Professor Mary Lovely. "But he does own it, so they’re going to have to put the best face on it," she says of the Phase 1 deal. Lovely was quoted in the Reuters article "Exclusive: U.S.-China trade deal review postponed as China ramps up farm, energy purchases."
8/17/2020

Jackson discusses Kamala Harris as VP pick in Teen Vogue, Truthout
"Despite the historic nature of her career and vice presidential nomination, we can’t lose our capacity to remain critical of her record and uncertain about how her potential vice presidency might affect marginalized communities," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science, in Teen Vogue. In this piece, and in "'Kinship' Isn’t Enough — Harris Must Be Accountable to Black People," published in Truthout, Jackson explains why candidates' descriptive identities aren't necessarily indicators of their political ideologies.
8/17/2020

Khalil weighs in on Trump's Israel-UAE deal in USA Today
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel had agreed to formalize diplomatic relations, a potentially historic agreement and a rare foreign policy win for the president during an election year. Osamah Khalil says he views the announcement as an attempt to boost Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu, who both face intense political headwinds over their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other matters. Khalil was interviewed for the USA Today article "Trump announces Israel and United Arab Emirates will formalize diplomatic ties in potentially historic deal."
8/14/2020

Cohen comments on the political value of time in Washington Post
"If time is a political resource of value," says Elizabeth Cohen, professor political science, "then anything you can do to force people to spend their time on what you want them to do, not the work they would want to do, is effective." Cohen was quoted in the Washington Post article "Busy work."
8/14/2020

Kurien quoted in Washington Post article on Harris's VP nomination
"Trump knows this is an important, wealthy group, and I’m sure that’s why he’s seeking their support," says Prema Kurien, professor of sociology, of Trump's courting of the Indian American vote. She also notes that as a voting bloc, Indian Americans are more fluid than other immigrant groups. Their concerns can be generational, with older immigrant parents focused on visas and other issues while second-generation Indian Americans may be compelled by the current moment of racial reckoning. Read more in the Washington Post article "'A trailblazer': Indian Americans react with joy, pride to Harris’s VP nod."
8/13/2020

Faulkner speaks to Syracuse.com about women’s rights movement in CNY
"It wasn’t the first time that women had argued for the right to vote. It wasn’t the first time that there was a convention of women that talked about a women’s right to participate in public affairs. Abolitionists had been talking about it for decades, but one of the things that happened in Seneca Falls is that [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton really made the vote central to women’s rights," says Carol Faulkner, professor of history. She was interviewed for the Syracuse.com article "Crusade for the Vote: How Central NY launched the women’s suffrage movement."
8/12/2020

Carriere discusses denuclearization in USA Today article
Fred Carriere, research professor of political science, says that one of the major impediments to getting countries to denuclearize, whether the U.S., North Korea, or Iran, is that "everybody always wants everything up front, with the promise that good things will follow later on, but few will ever be able to accept this strategy." He was quoted in the USA Today article "As Hiroshima bombing turns 75, a look at 6 changes to nuclear arms under Trump."
8/12/2020

Jackson cited in Slate article on capitalizing white
"We don’t need any more mechanisms to make whiteness more visible," said Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science, in a nuanced Twitter thread that was cited in the Slate article "Capitalizing White Won’t Fix the Media’s Racism Problem." Jackson argues that leaving white in the lowercase strips its power.
8/12/2020

Bhan comments on Ayodhya, Kashmir in Deccan Herald article
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation for a temple at a flashpoint holy site, Ayodhya, exactly a year after imposing direct rule on Muslim-majority Kashmir, stoking fears that Modi wants to change Muslim-majority Kashmir's demographic and religious makeup along the lines of Israel's actions in the West Bank. "What I see unfolding is a Hindu settler colonial project in the making," says Mona Bhan, Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies. Read more in the Deccan Herald article "Ayodhya, Kashmir: Twin triumphs for Modi and Hindu nationalists?"
8/11/2020

Ma quoted in BBC article on Chinese students in the US
Chinese students in the US are now "politicised and marginalised at an unprecedented level," as Washington is sending "very unfriendly signals," says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology and author of Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese Undergraduates Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education. She was quoted in the BBC article "Being a Chinese student in the US: ‘Neither the US nor China wants us’."
8/10/2020

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