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Yingyi Ma Weighs In on Trump Admin’s Move to Revoke Chinese Students’ Visas in NPR, WSJ Articles

“The economic costs are apparent,” says Yingyi Ma, professor of sociology. “The talent cost has even graver consequences.”

June 2, 2025

Offen Quoted in Politico Article on Trump’s Obsession With Maps

It’s a political tactic that has lasted as long as maps have, according to Karl Offen, professor of geography and the environment. “Maps and politics have been wedded from day one,” Offen says. “To name is to claim.”

May 30, 2025

Taylor Speaks With CBS News, El País, KTVU and Kyiv Post About Trump, Ukraine and Russia

“Putin isn’t interested in a ceasefire or an agreement, but rather in victory, understood as the subjugation of Ukraine,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science. “The Russian president has faced zero consequences for stalling Trump over the past four months, and from what Trump has said about the conversation, that hasn’t changed one bit.”

May 28, 2025

Sultana Article on Building Democracy in Bangladesh Published in LA Progressive

“In a region where democratic backsliding has often been normalized, Bangladesh is attempting a rare and ambitious path forward. But reforms – no matter how visionary – face real resistance from entrenched interests and are fraught with obstacles, both internal and external, that threaten to derail Bangladesh’s progress,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.

May 27, 2025

Bhan Talks to Morning Wave in Bhusan and the WOZ About Rising Tensions Between India and Pakistan

“I don't think either the Indian or Pakistani governments actually want a war,” says Mona Bhan, Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies. “But neither of them wants to appear weak under any circumstances.”

May 23, 2025

Khalil Speaks With Clarín About Trump’s Meeting With the President of Syria

The meeting between Trump and al-Sharaa “represents a remarkable shift in U.S. policy toward al-Qaeda and its affiliates. More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks and the declaration of the Global War on Terror, the United States is developing relations with a former leader of the organization who now declares himself a moderate,” says Osamah Khalil, professor of history.

May 21, 2025

Sultana Weighs In on the Suspension of the Indus River Waters Treaty in DW News Article

India's move to use the Indus Waters Treaty as geopolitical leverage “undermines the legal integrity of such treaties,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment. ”These treaty violations and suspensions can have ripple-on deleterious (harmful) effects across and beyond the region for the examples they set,” she says.

May 19, 2025

McFate Discusses Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Plan to Modernize the US Army on Fox News Live

“We have a lot of legacy systems that really were designed for the Soviet Union still in our arsenal and I think the Army is finally trying to peel them away,” says Sean McFate, adjunct professor in Maxwell's Washington programs.

May 16, 2025

Taylor Speaks With WWL Radio About US-Russia Relations

“There have been a variety of efforts since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 to try and remake the U.S.-Russia relationship...Obviously a lot has happened since then and it hasn't worked out that way and from my point of view, the thing that has broken the relationship most of all has been the Russian war against Ukraine which began in 2014,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science.

May 14, 2025

Reeher Talks to CBS New York and WCNY About President Trump’s First 100 Days

“Donald Trump has come in and has had just a blizzard of executive orders and other kinds of actions that have had serious impact in the federal government, the relations between the major branches of government and have had effects that have trickled down into Syracuse,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

May 8, 2025

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