Maxwell School Announces Leadership Changes in Dean’s Office and Academic Programs
Bob Bifulco has joined the dean’s office leadership team and faculty have stepped into new roles guiding the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and the Law, Society and Policy program.
See related: Promotions & Appointments
Koch Featured in Al Jazeera Documentary on the Controversy Surrounding FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
“In fact, that statistic was completely wrong. It was not like those deaths were not excess deaths. They were just South Asians who happened to die in Qatar from this time period,” says Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment, about the report in The Guardian that stated more than 6,500 guest workers died since the cup was awarded to the country.
See related: Government, International Affairs, Middle East & North Africa
Yingyi Ma Talks to South China Morning Post on US Policies and Chinese International Students
Yingyi Ma observes impact of policy shifts under President Trump on Chinese international students, “We have seen some signals, such as a stronger willingness among some Chinese students to return to China, and an overall decline in the number of Chinese students going to the U.S.”
See related: China, Federal Government, International Affairs, U.S. Education, United States
Where the World’s Researchers Come to Learn Their Craft
The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research draws graduate students and scholars from around the globe to Maxwell.
See related: Research Methods, Student Experience
Khalil Talks With News4JAX About the Escalating Tensions in US-Iran War
“There's real danger here of an escalating conflict that could spill over into the broader Persian Gulf region with profound consequences, not just for the regional stability, but for the global economy. So there's no military solution here. What needs to happen is a good faith, negotiated settlement,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program.
Mitra Speaks With Turbulence Podcast About Tariffs, Global Trade and India
Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, argues that tariffs can't do what they promise: trade balances are governed by macroeconomics, not trade policy, and the cost of a tariff falls largely on the country that imposes it.
See related: Government, India, International Affairs, Tariffs, Trade, United States
Review - ‘On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy’
Part-time instructor of anthropology Fethi Keles's review of the book On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, written by Susan Bibler Coutin, was published in the International Journal of Refugee Law.
See related: U.S. Immigration, United States
McDowell Research Cited in Bloomberg Article on US Dollar Dominance
“The role of politics in shaping the global currency hierarchy is seen as secondary to…baseline economic fundamentals,” wrote Daniel McDowell, professor of political science, for the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center. But that’s changing. “In the great global currency debate, market forces have never been more passé and political forces have never been so prominent.”
See related: Economic Policy, Federal Government, International Affairs, United States
Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade
Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, has co-edited a new reference work, Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026), with Priyaranjan Jha, professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. The volume is part of the Elgar Encyclopedias in Economics and Finance series.
See related: Economic Policy, International Affairs, Trade
Taylor Speaks to War & Politics 24, WWL Radio About Putin and the State of the War in Ukraine
“I think his strategy now is the same as it's really been from the very beginning, which is to try and figure out how to subjugate Ukraine. And that's the goal he's been after. And he's using really most of the means at his disposal to try and achieve that. If you look at his recent interviews, he does not want to concede at all that Russia is facing any serious problems,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science.
See related: Conflict, Government, International Affairs, Russia, Ukraine
McCormick Quoted in CS Monitor Article on Venezuela Earthquakes, Implications and Trump
“This disaster throws a wrench in the White House and State Department plan for securing and stabilizing the circum-Caribbean region that includes Venezuela,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
Yingyi Ma Speaks With Rest of World About Chinese Universities Prioritizing New Majors in AI
“In China, the response is more centralized and top-down,” says Yingyi Ma, professor of sociology. “AI is being built into national education planning and new majors. In the U.S., the response is more decentralized. Individual universities, schools, departments and faculty variability is huge.”
See related: Artificial Intelligence, China, Education, Government
Evaluation of a Radio Campaign to Improve Vaccination Coverage Among Children Under-Five in Ethiopia
The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of Public Health Bernard Appiah, was published in BMC Public Health.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Global Health, Health Communication, Parenting & Family, Vaccines
Ambiguous Inclusion: Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border
Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, has written Ambiguous Inclusion: Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border (University of Toronto Press, 2026). The book draws on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Moscow and Vladivostok, Russia, and Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Morgan Explains Changing Relationship Between US and EU
Glyn Morgan, associate professor of political science, writes on CapX how the trade deal the U.S. and EU agreed to during meetings in Turnberry, Scotland, in 2025 exemplifies the changing relationship between the two from one built on mutual benefit to one that is fully transactional.
See related: Europe, Trade, U.S. Foreign Policy, United States
Khalil Explains a Potential Peace Deal Between the US and Iran on News4JAX
“I think this idea that the Iranians are going to turn uranium over is really posturing. They're not going to turn the uranium over. What they may be willing to do is actually downgrade the uranium to a certain level under UN or international auspices and the United States is going to have to agree to that,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program.
The Rise and Fall of American Europe
Glyn Morgan, associate professor of political science, has written The Rise and Fall of American Europe (Polity Press, 2026). The book traces how the post-World War II American-led project of European integration—a political order grounded in U.S. military protection and transatlantic trade—came to be, and why it is now unraveling.
See related: Europe, International Affairs
The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence From Vietnam
The article, co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, was published in the Journal of Development Economics.
See related: Gender and Sex, International Agreements, Labor, Southeast Asia, Tariffs, Trade
Grant Supports Donor Study by Maxwell Colleagues Minjung Kim and Jiahuan Lu
The $27,000 Wilson C. “Bill” Levis Fundraising Research Grant will support survey-based research into what motivates donors to give nonprofits maximum flexibility.
See related: Grant Awards, Non-governmental Organizations
Natural Disasters, Property Reappraisal, and Fiscal Outcomes
Co-authored by Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs, the study was published in the Journal of Housing Economics.
See related: Housing, Natural Disasters, State & Local Government, United States