“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.

Selina Gallo-Cruz, associate professor of sociology, edited a special issue for the Journal of Political Power, Vol. 19, Issue 3, “Allusions, Illusions and Delusions of Power” and authored the introductory editorial.

Secessionist movements regularly have “economic motivations,” but typically those are married to a linguistic or nationalist component, says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science. “There's no magic line” dictating what defines a nation, he says, but notes Alberta's case for nationhood appears harder to make than that of other groups, like Catalans, Scots and French-speaking Canadians in Quebec.

Co-authored by Professor of Anthropology Azra Hromadžić, the article was published in the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

“The contest for Senate control is becoming increasingly competitive, largely due to what continues to come out of the White House—evidenced by the president’s extremely low approval ratings. This latest appearance of essentially a bribe by the president for a good outcome in the midterms will not help,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

“When Patel mimics Trump‘s speech patterns or media strategies, he draws more attention to himself and not in a good way, especially for his relationship with Trump,” says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science.

“The long-term conservative or Republican or MAGA criticism of the federal government was actually not about the federal government,” says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science. “Instead, it was a criticism or a fight against what we call a vague liberal enemy, which was sometimes mapped onto the government when it was convenient.”

“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.

“I think Putin's strategy is unlikely to work and unlikely to change the basic trajectory of the war, which is still that his strategic objectives that he set out at the very beginning of the invasion, which is basically to control Ukraine will not be achieved. And he's only made the Ukrainian population more resistant to any kind of submission to Russian political domination,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

Five Syracuse faculty, including Maxwell professors Ryan Griffiths and Colleen Heflin, share findings on food policy, AI, architecture, political science and marine biology on the nationally broadcast program “The Academic Minute.”

“Russians generally are tired of the war and want it to end,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. “They are well aware that the full-scale war against Ukraine started in 2022 has already lasted longer than the ‘Great Patriotic War’ against Nazi Germany.”

“If leaders come in and they seem to be particularly partisan...if they really lean into that partisanship and they begin to forget their larger purpose is that ‘I represent all Americans and not just my party’ then that creates that pendulum effect and it keeps energizing both sides and that's very dangerous,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.

“When similar decisions [to contact mothers first] are repeated thousands of times across schools and other organizations, they can reinforce the unequal division of caregiving responsibilities that already exists within many families,” says Kristy Buzard, associate professor of economics.

The article, authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, was published in Globalizations.

Anthropologist Kyrstin Mallon Andrews will examine how illegal fishing affects the country's culture, economy, ecology and national security.

“South Sudan at the moment is a failed promise,” says Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology. “South Sudanese who had lived under brutal regimes in Sudan and had been excluded from money and development programmes, and were victims of security operations in the southern part, had hung their hopes on independence.”

The article, authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, was published in the Journal of Political Power.

“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.

“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.

Separatism is “in the zeitgeist,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science and author of The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work (Oxford University Press, 2025).