Filtered by: South Asia Center
The Heavy Cloud: Hydrosocial Dispossession and the Water Coloniality of AI Infrastructure
The article, authored by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in Geo: Geography and Environment.
See related: Artificial Intelligence, Colonialism, Environment, Water
Three Maxwell Professors Honored for Cross-University Collaboration
The Central New York Humanities Corridor has recognized Timur Hammond, Mona Bhan and Azra Hromadžić for leading research groups on cities, conflict and the natural world.
See related: Awards & Honors, Environment, Urban Issues, Water
Mitra Talks With LA Times, PBS About the Trump Administration’s Crackdown on International Students
International students and workers also support the economy beyond their universities or workplaces. By living in the U.S., foreign students and workers create jobs as they buy goods and services, says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
See related: Federal Government, International Affairs, U.S. Education, United States
Sultana Discusses the Environmental Costs of AI on RGS Climate Change Research Group Podcast
“One thing that people don't often think about is the land and the air that also belongs to this equation because increasingly, gas turbines are being built near data center sites to support the energy supply needs and they're driven by the ever-expanding agentic AI use globally,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Government, International Affairs
Sultana Article on the Nepal Disaster Published in Counterpoint
“Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin and should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Colonialism, Government, International Affairs, Natural Disasters, South Asia, Water
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
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
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
Sultana Featured in Financial Times Documentary on Oil Frontiers and Energy Security
“We have a distorted global economic system that rewards fossil fuel extraction, that rewards fossil fuel dependency. And as a result, it is harder for smaller countries that are worried about their own energy security, their own economic security, their own social social development to forgo an oil discovery,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
Exports and Intergenerational Mobility
Co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, the study was published in the Journal of International Economics.
See related: Children, Adolescents, International Agreements, Labor, Southeast Asia, Trade
Redistributive Land Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and Structural Change
The article, co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra and Associate Professor of Economics Abdulaziz Shifa, was published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
See related: Agriculture, Economic Policy, Labor
Mitra Weighs In on the US Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling in Hindustan Times Article
“A prudent approach for India is to let uncertainties arising out of the SCOTUS ruling resolve themselves to the extent possible before finalizing the trade deal,” says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
See related: Federal Government, India, International Affairs, International Agreements, SCOTUS, Tariffs, Trade, United States
Sultana Speaks With Al Jazeera About the National Election in Bangladesh
Today’s election is “the first genuinely competitive national vote in nearly two decades,” making it a “historic” moment for Bangladesh, and today's polls “mark a real break from the era of contested, non-credible polls and authoritarian entrenchment,” under Sheikh Hasina’s rule, says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Elections, Government, South Asia
Sultana Discusses Hydro-Coercion and Water Justice in Counterpoint and Daily Star Articles
“For Bangladesh, water is far more than a resource; it is the vital pulse of our ecological resilience and the primary determinant of our human vulnerability. Yet, in the high-stakes geopolitical landscape of South Asia, our rivers are increasingly being reconfigured from lifelines into instruments of hydro-coercion,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Government, India, South Asia, Water
From Hydro-Hegemony to Hydro-Coercion
The study, authored by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in Human Geography.
See related: Government, India, South Asia, Water
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 Government, International Affairs, Tariffs, Trade, 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
Mitra Quoted in LA Times Article on Costco Suing the Trump Administration to Reclaim Tariff Payments
“Whether Costco is successful through its lawsuit in getting compensated for the tariffs that it has already paid on its imports really depends on the Supreme Court’s decision on whether the president has the legal authority to impose tariffs,” says Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.
See related: Federal Government, International Affairs, SCOTUS, Tariffs, Trade, United States
Mitra Quoted in Wall Street Journal Article on Trump’s Trade War, Consumer Spending Habits
“Whether or not people will keep buying as much stuff is very hard to predict,” says Devashish Mitra, professor of economics. “Chinese goods might still be relatively cheaper than the alternatives.”
See related: Federal Government, Tariffs, Trade, United States
On Terms of Trade, Offshoring Ties, and the Enforcement of Trade Agreements
Co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, the study was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.