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Taylor Speaks with LiveNOW from FOX and UNITED24 About the Latest With Ukraine
“The way the U.S. is going about it is not inclined to make a ceasefire take place and last. All the pressure at the moment seems to be on the Ukrainians to show that they're willing to settle and that they want peace. But the country that started the war is Russia and its Russia that's on the attack,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science.
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Gender and Social Class Dynamics in Intergenerational Financial Transfers Among Older Adults
“Gender and Social Class Dynamics in Intergenerational Financial Transfers Among Older Adults: National Trends Over Two Decades in Sweden,” co-authored by Professor and Chair of Sociology Merril Silverstein, was published in Ageing & Society.
See related: Europe, Gender and Sex, Parenting & Family
Murrett Talks to LiveNOW from FOX, Newsweek About Zelensky's Meetings With Trump, European Allies
“The talks in United Kingdom…represent a pivotal inflection point for the alliance of nations that support Ukraine, and for the prospects for a ceasefire in the months ahead,” says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.
Moynihan Institute’s Event on Russia-Ukraine War Featured in CNY Central, Syracuse.com Articles
Three Ukrainian experts, Maria Avdeeva, Eurasia fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute; and Mariana Semenyshyn, visiting Fulbright scholar in the Moynihan Institute, shared their views on the course of the war.
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Taylor Speaks With NPR LA’s ‘AirTalk’ About the Rising Tensions Between Ukraine and Trump
“One thing I would call attention to is that President Trump and Russian President Putin had an hour and a half long conversation last week. And since that conversation Trump has repeated multiple Putin talking points about the war,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science.
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Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland
“Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland,” authored by Associate Professor of Anthropology Azra Hromadžić, was published in Society.
See related: Europe, Infrastructure, Migration
Bankrolling the Belgrade Bandits? Civil Society, NGOs, and Foreign Aid Localization in Serbia
“Bankrolling the Belgrade Bandits? Civil Society, NGOs, and Foreign Aid Localization in Serbia,” authored by Catherine Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in Public Administration and Development.
See related: Europe, International Affairs, Non-governmental Organizations, Social Justice
De Nevers Comments on Trump's Call for the US to Acquire Greenland in Newsweek Article
“Trump's threats to use military force to acquire Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, undercut efforts to preserve this core principle, and implicitly legitimate President Putin's own efforts to gain territory by force,” says Renée de Nevers, associate professor of public administration and international affairs.
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Hranchak Says Political Rather Than Military Action May Deter Putin in WAER Interview
“Ukraine joining NATO will mean the readiness of the western countries to defend their own sovereignty and remain subjects of international relations, and such determination in itself is a deterrent," says Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
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‘Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City’ Among The Economist’s Best Books of 2024
The publication called the book by Maxwell School Professor Emeritus Dennis Romano a “sparkling account of Venice’s past and future.”
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Religious Change and Continuity Across Generations
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What Is the Legacy of the ‘Fall’ of the Berlin Wall 35 Years On? Woodard Shares Insights
Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, says the event was just one of several across communist Eastern Europe that showed how solidarity among people could foster resistance and bring change.
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Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Supports Catherine Herrold’s Study of Locally Led Development
The associate professor will spend three months in Serbia as she continues her research on civil society and grassroots development initiatives.
Diem Monograph, ‘The Pursuit of Salvation,’ Featured on Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
The translation, “Someone’s Rule for Virgins,” in Professor Albrecht Diem's “The Pursuit of Salvation: Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism” (Brepols, 2021), is currently featured as the Translation of the Month on Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index.
Taylor Talks to Newsweek About the US Sending Nuclear Weapons to Ukraine
“In theory, the U.S. could station U.S. nuclear weapons in Ukraine and maintain command authority of them, like it does in several NATO member states,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science. “But it's extremely difficult to imagine that happening.”
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De Nevers Piece on Trump’s Second Term and America’s Future Role in NATO Published in The Hill
“Trump’s return to power in the U.S. raises serious questions about America’s future role in NATO. He has been open in his disdain for NATO for decades,” says Renée de Nevers, associate professor of public administration and international affairs. “This leaves European NATO with a serious security problem at a time when the threat to Europe from Russia is clear and present.”
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McFate Discusses the Russia-Ukraine War in Daily Express, Defense One and The National Articles
“Putin has lowered the bar for Russian nuclear engagement, a clear signal to NATO to back off. It’s a response to Biden's allowing Ukraine to use long-range American missiles against Russian targets,” says Sean McFate, adjunct professor in Maxwell's Washington programs.
Emerging Regulation of GHG Emissions in the Transportation-for-Hire Industry
Assistant Teaching Professor of Policy Studies Austin Zwick and alumna Karina Freeland '23 B.A. (PSt). investigate what conditions are needed for local government to take on leadership and policy innovation in environmental regulation. Published in Sustainability.
Murrett Talks to Fox News About Russia Firing a New Ballistic Missile at Ukraine
“I do think it is a response to the unconstrained use that we have now for ATACMS missiles and also Storm Shadow missiles in the Kursk region of Russia and allowing the Ukrainians to use them,” says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs. “I think what the Russian leadership did with the Oreshnik missile—MRBM—is probably a response to that.”
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Williams Weighs In on Zelensky’s Victory Plan for Ukraine in New York Times Article
“He has to go cap in hand to push the plan, sort of carve out a position and then say at home, having asked, that this is now what we have to do,” says Michael John Williams, a associate professor of public administration and international affairs, adding, “At least he can say he’s tried. He’s exhausted the possibilities.”
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