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Griffiths Comments on the US’s Ability to Acquire Greenland in La Presse Article

“The executive power is less hampered than we normally see, but that doesn't mean that there are no constraints,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.

January 21, 2026

Taylor Quoted in La Presse Article on Reaction of China and Russia on US Operation in Venezuela

“This is the fourth time in a few years that Russia has seen an ally undermined and has to swallow the snake,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

January 15, 2026

Brockway Weighs In on Response to Renee Good’s Death in HuffPost Article

“This is not ideological conservatives versus ideological liberals. This is not even Democrats versus Republicans,” says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science. “What it is is something much, much more unwieldy and difficult to understand.”

January 12, 2026

NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War

James Goldgeier, Brian D. Taylor

Co-authored by Professor of Political Science Brian Taylor, the article was published in The Washington Quarterly.

January 6, 2026

Brockway Speaks With HuffPost About the Plaques in Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’

Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science, notes that the plaques may seem ridiculous and are certainly a ham-fisted approach to pushing a message. “But they really are a way to reaffirm the narrative that everything that’s wrong in the world is because of somebody else,” he says.

December 29, 2025

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Brockway Speaks With Agence France Presse About Trump’s Hard-Line Rhetoric Against Immigrants

For Trump, it doesn't matter whether an immigrant obeys the law, or owns a business, or has been here for decades, says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science. “They are caught in the middle of Trump's fight against an invented evil enemy,” Brockway says.

December 18, 2025

Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate Coloniality

Farhana Sultana

The study, written by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in GEO: Geography and Environment.

December 17, 2025

O’Keefe and Lambright Weigh In on Trump’s Pick to Lead NASA in The Observer and Scientific American

“The job is a leadership role, where your task is to motivate people from wide-ranging, different disciplines to come together to define the problem as the same and then go about trying to solve it through multiple avenues. Everything I’ve heard about him certainly suggests that he’s got a lot of talent and capability to make him the ideal person,” says University Professor Emeritus Sean O'Keefe.

December 16, 2025

Taylor Quoted in LA Times Article on Europe’s Alarm Over Trump’s Approach to Ukraine

“If the U.S. stops even doing that—and it would be quite a radical policy change if the U.S. is unwilling even to sell weapons to European countries—then Europe will have to continue on the path it is already on, which is to bolster its own defense production capacity,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

December 15, 2025

McCormick Weighs In on Who Could Replace Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in The Telegraph

“She [Vice President Delcy Rodriguez] strikes me as somebody who has known how to accommodate to Maduro, which is part of the reason why she’s there, but she doesn’t sort of strike me as somebody who would sort of step into that political vacuum and take control,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.

December 9, 2025

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. 

December 1, 2025

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.

November 7, 2025

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.”

October 31, 2025

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.

October 30, 2025

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. 

October 10, 2025

Analyzing the Stability of Gun Violence Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Syracuse, New York

Peng Gao, Sarah E. Van Horne, David A. Larsen, Robert A. Rubinstein, Sandra D. Lane

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.

September 29, 2025

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.

September 26, 2025

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.

September 21, 2025

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. 

September 18, 2025

Saving the “Lungs of the City”: Emerging Civic Action in Urban Environmental Policy

Markus Lainea, Selina Gallo-Cruz, Helena Leino

Co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, the article was published in Local Environment.

September 16, 2025

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CANCELED: Troubled Waters: Transboundary Watershed Protection in a Contested Metropolis

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David Sonnenfeld, Professor of Environmental Studies, SUNY ESF will speak about "Troubled Waters: Transboundary Watershed Protection in a Contested Metropolis", part of the PARCC Conversations in Conflict Studies Speaker Series, sponsored by PARCC. For more information contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367. 


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