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McCormick Piece on US-Mexico Relations, Tariffs and Drug Trafficking Published in The Hill
“The presence of U.S. troops in Mexico will severely and irreparably undermine [President of Mexico] Sheinbaum’s counter-narcotics policies, which are netting results. Crippling the Sheinbaum administration will give rise to an even bigger and stronger enemy south of the border,” writes Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
Cleary Weighs In on Trump’s Deployment of Troops Domestically in HuffPost Article
“It is something that is done in other democracies when it really, really has to be done. It’s never ideal, and it should only be done in the U.S. or in any other democracy when it’s a true emergency, when there’s no other solution, and it should always be temporary,” says Matt Cleary, associate professor of political science.
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Maxwell School Announces Faculty Promotions for 2025-26
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The Last Door: A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives
Gladys McCormick, associate dean and professor of history, has written a new book, The Last Door: A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives (University of California Press, 2025). The book explores how the Mexican government increasingly used torture to suppress dissent as guerrilla movements spread across Mexico in the 1970s.
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Denisa Jashari’s Article Honored with Sturgis Leavitt Award
The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies presents the award at its annual meeting.
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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.”
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Guido Pezzarossi Awarded the 2025 Montonna Fund
The fund was created in 1997 with a gift from the honoree’s daughter and Maxwell alumna, the late Mary Lou Williams.
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Denisa Jashari Receives 2025 Latin American Research Review Best Article Award
The history professor was recognized with the annual award for her article on the transnational movement Christians for Socialism in 1960s and 1970s Chile.
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McCormick Discusses the Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico in Business Insider, NBC News Articles
“The consequences of pushing the Mexican economy into a forced and deep recession is that, if anything, it will actually make people have to resort to informal economic activity, which oftentimes is illicit,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
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McCormick Talks to InSight Crime About Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico
“Tariffs will hurt the Mexican economy, which will further weaken the Mexican system and the rule of law, and that’s going to make Mexico much more vulnerable to further incursions from organized crime,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
McCormick Quoted in InSight Crime Article on Trump’s Impact on Anti-Crime Efforts in Latin America
“There’s so much more on the table in terms of the overall portfolios of some of these organizations,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
McCormick Quoted in BNN Bloomberg Article on Crises Confronting Mexico’s New President
“She both inherited a crisis as well as the commitments AMLO made to a range of stakeholders like the National Guard,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations, referring to the former president by his initials.
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Ackerman Talks to Democracy Now About Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Legacy
One element is “the return...of class politics, which takes the form of a series of important legislative measure that includes raising the minimum wage, facilitating the formation of unions, but also more specific things like, for example, recognizing the labor rights of domestic workers for the first time in the country,” says Edwin Ackerman, associate professor of sociology.
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Trudeau Explains How Criminal Governance Undermines Elections on Scope Conditions Podcast
“I've also heard stories from candidates who refused to cooperate with criminal group members and they were met with a lot of resistance,” says Jessie Trudeau, assistant professor of political science.
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Cleary Weighs In on Whether or Not Biden Dropping Out Was a Coup in PolitiFact Article
“Calling Biden’s decision a ‘coup’ does not clarify anything about all of this. It does not accurately reflect any part of what has happened here,” says Matthew Cleary, associate professor of political science.
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Maxwell School 2024-25 Faculty Promotions Include Four Tenure Appointments
Edwin Ackerman, Marc Garcia, Timur Hammond and Alex Rothenberg have been promoted to associate professor.
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McCormick Talks to NewsNation About Mexico’s New President, Ability to Deal With Drug Cartels
“When she [Claudia Sheinbaum] comes in, she is inheriting this mess, but she doesn’t necessarily have the charisma that (López Obrador) does,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations. “So it’s going to be a tall ask.”
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Popular Christian Communities and Religious Protest during Pinochet's Dictatorship, 1973–90
“Carrying the Cross: Popular Christian Communities and Religious Protest during Pinochet's Dictatorship, 1973–90,” authored by Assistant Professor of History Denisa Jashari, was published in the Journal of Latin American Studies.
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The Chilean Christians for Socialism Movement: Liberationist, Third Worldist, and Utopian
“The Chilean Christians for Socialism Movement: Liberationist, Third Worldist, and Utopian,” written by Assistant Professor of History Denisa Jashari, was published in Latin American Research Review.
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The Moynihan Institute Announces its ’23-’24 Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
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