Taylor Discusses the Talks Between Top US Officials and Ukrainian Delegation on LiveNOW from FOX
“I think the fundamental problem remains, that Vladimir Putin wants to subjugate and control Ukraine and Ukraine wants to stay independent and sovereign and make its own political choices. So it's really hard to see a meaningful deal coming out of this,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Insititute of Global Affairs.
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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.
Griffiths Piece on Worsening Political Polarization, National Divorce Published in The Conversation
“There is no way to disentangle red and blue America without tremendous violence. Additionally, a large and increasingly ignored percentage of Americans hold moderate views,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science. “There is no doubt that polarization in America is a problem that is getting worse, but a national divorce is simply not the solution.”
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Thompson Article on Pope Leo XIV Published in American Catholic Studies
“As a person who has lived on three continents and traveled extensively through three more, and as someone who has thought deeply about the implications of gospel values for both church and world, Leo is well aware that all that he says and does will be examined and parsed for their repercussions,” says Margaret Susan Thompson, professor of history and political science.
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Taylor Weighs In on the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Russian Demographics
“Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is greatly damaging Russia’s future, with the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the front and the emigration of some of Russia’s best and brightest young people,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
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Analyzing the Stability of Gun Violence Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Syracuse, New York
The article, co-written by Maxwell professors Peng Gao, David Larsen, Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane, was published in the International Journal of Health Geographics.
See related: COVID-19, Crime & Violence, New York State, Urban Issues
Griffiths Article on a National Divorce in America Published in The Hill
“The truth is that a national divorce would require a dangerous unmixing and re-sorting of Americans. Imagine trying to draw a new map that is coherent yet still satisfies the greatest number of people,” writes Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.
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Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel” Reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books
“This is a transcendent, boundary-breaking work about ‘the need to recognize, decode, and resist demonological messages,’” says Peter B. Kaufman, associate director of development at MIT Open Learning.
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Griffiths Speaks With HuffPost About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Call for a National Divorce
The “idea that irreconcilable differences justify secession ignores the violent history of such efforts, including the Civil War, and overlooks the reality that Americans are deeply intermixed—politically, geographically and ideologically,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.
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Saving the “Lungs of the City”: Emerging Civic Action in Urban Environmental Policy
Co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, the article was published in Local Environment.
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Failure. Russia Under Putin
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, contributed a chapter to the recently published book Failure. Russia Under Putin (Bloomsbury, 2025). He is one of multiple authors who share their views on Russia’s failures under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.
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Taylor Speaks With CBS News About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones in Its Airspace
“Poland is a NATO member state. The United States is a member of this alliance and Poland is asking for consultations among the alliance. Several other countries sent aircraft to help down some of the drones. So this is at least a potential escalation here in the war beyond the Russia-Ukraine war,” says Brian Taylor, professor of politcal science.
See related: Conflict, Europe, Government, International Affairs, NATO, Russia, Ukraine
Climate-Induced Redistribution of People Is Not Inevitable
The article, co-authored by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in Environmental Research Letters.
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Sultana Shares Book Review in Nature's Reading List for Scientists
“That a Muslim woman in a colonized country conceived of green innovation, universal education and social equity as forms of justice more than a century ago is deeply inspiring, ” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment, about Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Sultana's Dream (1905).
See related: Climate Change, Gender and Sex, India
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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Bosnian Fluxes, Belonging, Caring, and Reckoning in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery
Azra Hromadžić, professor and undergraduate director for anthropology, has contributed to a recently published book, Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring, and Reckoning in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery (Routledge, 2025).
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Patel Quoted in ClearanceJobs Article on Office of the Director of National Intelligence Staff Cuts
“There have also been arguments that DNI (Director of National Intelligence) has grown beyond its original intent. There is always a process of streamlining and covering the priorities effectively, but this doesn’t seem to be an effective way to do it,” says Kristen Patel, Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Practice in Korean and East Asian Affairs.
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Taylor Speaks With CBS News, LiveNOW from FOX About Putin, Russia’s Attacks on Ukraine
“He [Putin] continues to launch missle and drone attacks, and military attacks continue along the front line. So Putin is really betting on a military solution, not a political one, despite all of the talks that took place over the last week,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
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Maxwell School Announces Faculty Promotions for 2025-26
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New $1M Gift to Build Bridges and Create Global Map to Enhance Democracies
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