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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.
See related: Defense & Security, Federal, International Affairs, Russia, Ukraine, United States
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.
See related: Europe, Federal, International Affairs, Russia, United States
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.
See related: Conflict, Government, NATO, Russia, Ukraine
‘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.”
See related: Awards & Honors, Europe
Religious Change and Continuity Across Generations
See related: Aging, Canada, Europe, Parenting & Family, Religion, United States
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.
See related: Europe, Government, International Affairs
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.