Studying Challenges to Citizenship Across the Globe
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Featured Research

Transnational Crime and Black Spots: Rethinking Sovereignty and the Global Economy
In their book, Maxwell School faculty members Stuart Brown and Margaret Hermann examine 80 safe havens across the globe from which transnational criminal, insurgent and terrorist organizations operate—areas they term “black spots” because, like the black holes in astronomy that defy the laws of Newtonian physics, these spots defy our notions of sovereignty and the Westphalian state system.
Featured Events
Through its seven regional centers, the Moynihan Insitute hosts events year-round to discuss topics and issues in regions around the globe.
Environmental Challenge to Citizenship in the Caspian Sea Basin
Part of the Moynihan Institute’s Challenges to Citizenship Series, this roundtable considers contemporary challenges to citizenship stemming from oil extraction and the environment in the Caspian Sea basin.
Caste in the United States
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, director of Equality Labs, explores the history of caste civil rights, urgent cases and campaigns that Equality Labs is leading around the United States.
This talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the South Asia Center.
Between Flood and Drought
Joel E. Correia, assistant professor at the University of Florida, discusses his research on environmental racism, the production of settler waterscapes, and indigenous water justice in South America’s Chaco.
This talk was part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series and hosted by the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Call for Applications to the Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship
Apply to the South Asia Center's Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) summer 2022 fellowships by February 28. The FLAS summer 2022 program provides for tuition up to $5,000 and a stipend of $2,500 for intensive study in any South Asian language at approved language programs. Qualified undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply.
Application deadline: February 28
Degrees, Certificates, Courses and Study Abroad

Undergraduate and Graduate Study
The Moynihan Insitute and Syracuse University support, coordinate and host a rich selection of academic programs where students learn about different regions of the world.
Programs include majors, minors, master's degrees, certificates of advanced study and study abroad.
I am Maxwell.
As a proficient speaker of German, Jen Proch was thrilled to discover the Maxwell School’s Atlantis Program, in which students can earn master’s degrees from both Maxwell and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. “My internship at the Council of Europe confirmed how much I enjoy research and writing. And it provided insight into how I can use those skills in a job setting,” says Proch.
Jennifer Proch ’21
M.A. in international relations (Maxwell) / master of international affairs (Hertie)

Regional Centers and Research Projects
Regional Centers
Research Projects
- Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
- Mapping Global Insecurity
- Sovereignty, Order and Conflict
- Transnational NGO Initiative
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs in Action
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