Maxwell School News and Faculty Media, Opinion and Analysis

Lovely discusses India's COVID crisis, US textile imports with NBC

June 3, 2021

While India constitutes a smaller fraction of imports as compared to China, it still plays a significant role in certain sectors, including raw gems, which makes it difficult to move supply chains outside the country, says Professor Mary Lovely.

See related: COVID-19, India, Trade, United States

Banks comments on President Bush's handling of 9/11 attacks in South China Morning Post

April 28, 2021

"Bush and many others overreacted to 9/11," says Professor Emeritus William Banks. "I blame him and especially (vice-president) Dick Cheney and then (defense secretary) Donald Rumsfeld for the reckless policies," he says. But Bush was "never nativist," and his recent efforts on immigration are not a "whitewashing" of history but appear to be a genuine effort at problem-solving, Banks adds.

Jacobson discusses the removal of US troops from Afghanistan on MSNBC

April 15, 2021

"I just think that he [Biden] has been given, by his team, a false binary choice: either we stay indefinitely with a massive commitment, or we leave," says Mark Jacobson, assistant dean for Washington Programs who served in Afghanistan with both the Army and Navy reserves. "And there's a lot of areas in between, a lot of work we can do that is beyond that binary choice."

Sultana reviews Global Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka Tribune

March 9, 2021

"Given that climate change impacts the most vulnerable across the world, yet the voices of the vulnerable are always not heard or heeded sufficiently in high-level planning and decision-making, conferences like the Global Gobeshona Conference enhance opportunities to have different voices and positionalities to be present in spaces of global knowledge sharing," writes Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

See related: Climate Change, India

Steinberg discusses China, India, US connection on Horns of a Dilemma

August 26, 2020

University Professor Jim Steinberg analyzes, "the United States—for a long time—has viewed India through highly instrumental lenses...the question is, whether that will now change, and whether India will be more willing to be a partner with the United States in an across the board, new Cold War with China."

See related: China, Foreign Policy, India, United States

Bhan comments on Ayodhya, Kashmir in Deccan Herald article

August 11, 2020

See related: Colonialism, India, Religion

Mitra discusses what India needs to do to attract global supply chains in Economic Times

June 25, 2020

"Attracting GSCs to India is actually very hard work, without having any attractive catchphrase. There is no strategy other than considerable additional investment and effort into infrastructure and skill-building, tackling power bottlenecks, reforms in labour and land regulations and keeping protectionist forces at bay," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.

Bhan discusses the new domicile law for Kashmir with Al Jazeera

June 16, 2020

See related: India, Law

Mitra discusses India's need for an effective rescue plan in Economic Times

June 1, 2020

"As reviving the economy is not possible without restarting production, there needs to be a phased exit from the lockdown through extensive testing that identifies people who can go back to work with the confidence that they won’t contract the disease from others," says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.

See related: Economic Policy, India

Mitra recommends AEZ model for India's economy in Economic Times

May 20, 2020