Urban Sprawl and Residential Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Indonesia and the Philippines
Allport’s ‘Advance Britannia’ Reviewed by the New York Times
“Allport is a fluid writer, a conjurer with the rare ability to sustain a gripping narrative without resorting to Vaseline-lensed sentimentality. He overturns one piece of conventional wisdom after another—quarrelsome, occasionally, to a fault,” says New York Times reviewer Kevin Peraino.
Maxwell School Commemorates US’ 250th Anniversary With Course Offered Free to the Public
Faculty experts will delve into a variety of topics from democracy and women’s voices to immigration in a series of weekly lectures offered in the Spring 2026 semester.
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Mitra Article on Trump’s 2025 Trade Policy Published on Moneycontrol.com
“Completely ignored was the basic economics of trade deficits and surpluses, which says that trade balances are governed not really by trade policies but by macroeconomic conditions and policies,” says Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.
See related: Federal, International Affairs, Tariffs, Trade, United States
NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War
Co-authored by Professor of Political Science Brian Taylor, the article was published in The Washington Quarterly.
See related: Conflict, Government, International Affairs, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, United States
Meghan Kelly Honored as Keynote Lecturer for AAG
A specialty group of the American Association of Geographers has selected the assistant professor to give remarks at its annual meeting.
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Latin American Refugees to the U.S. Experience More Discrimination than Refugees from other Regions
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Strengthening Snap’s Ability to Address Old Age Food Insecurity
The article, published in Contexts, was co-authored by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, and University Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer.
See related: Aging, Food Security, U.S. Health Policy, United States
Khalil Discusses Phase Two of the Gaza Peace Plan With CBS News
“We're still not very close to phase two coming into place. Hamas is unlikely to disarm willingly and Israel is not going to be able to disarm them,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program.
Himmelreich Talks to Central Current About Flock Safety Keeping Syracuse Drivers’ ‘Anonymized’ Data
“The images that these cameras capture have a lot of information. Even when you anonymize them by throwing away metadata, you can figure out where the image was taken,” says Johannes Himmelreich, associate professor of public administration and international affairs. “After all, you still see the street and everything around the car. So, I doubt that the anonymization is robust.”
See related: Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, New York State, State & Local
Brockway Speaks With HuffPost About the Plaques in Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’
Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science, notes that the plaques may seem ridiculous and are certainly a ham-fisted approach to pushing a message. “But they really are a way to reaffirm the narrative that everything that’s wrong in the world is because of somebody else,” he says.
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Allport Article on Persistent Myths about France’s Maginot Line Published in Foreign Policy
“Contrary to a lot of modern assumptions, it [the Maginot Line] was never expected to defeat a German attack by itself. The point of the Maginot Line was not to stop the boche in their tracks, but to channel any future westward offensive away from the French industrial heartland and toward the Low Countries, particularly Belgium,” writes Alan Allport, professor of history.
Pralle Quoted in Seattle Times Article on Outdated Skagit County Flood Maps
The maps are a tool to communicate more realistic flood risks to vulnerable groups, says Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science. You can plug your address into a FEMA webpage and it will tell you your property’s flood risk. “But,” Pralle says, “if you don’t know where the risky areas are, none of that works.”
See related: Flood Insurance, Natural Disasters, State & Local, United States
Murrett Discusses Trump's Order to Blockade Sanctioned Venezuela Oil Tankers With AP News, CBS News
While the strikes on alleged drug boats have raised questions about the use of military force, Trump’s seizure of the tanker and other actions against sanctioned entities are consistent with past American policy, says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.
Harrington Meyer Discusses What’s Driving the Rise in Grandparent Childcare on WBUR's ‘On Point’
If parents had more guaranteed welfare state program available to them, “it would be easier for them to juggle jobs and children and they might not need to rely on grandparents quite as extensively,” says University Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer.
See related: Aging, Child & Elder Care, Labor, United States
Contesting the Munich Beer Halls: Violence and Spatial Practices in the Early Nazi Movement, 1919-1923
The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of History Robert Terrell and William Henry Johnson ’25 B.A. (Hist), was published in Central European History.
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Maxwell Honors Dean Emeritus John Palmer with Cramer Horizon Award
The school’s highest award was presented to the former dean, University Professor and senior statesman who “embodies Maxwell’s mission.”
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
Alan Allport, professor of history, has written Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026). The book is a sequel to Allport’s 2020 work Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020).
Brockway Speaks With Agence France Presse About Trump’s Hard-Line Rhetoric Against Immigrants
For Trump, it doesn't matter whether an immigrant obeys the law, or owns a business, or has been here for decades, says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science. “They are caught in the middle of Trump's fight against an invented evil enemy,” Brockway says.
See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States
Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate Coloniality
The study, written by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in GEO: Geography and Environment.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Climate Change, Colonialism, Latin America & the Caribbean