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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Cornell University

Lund Critical Debate

Noted experts in international affairs meet on Cornell’s campus for the Einaudi Center’s annual Lund Critical Debate. These debates on pressing issues in world news and policy are moderated by Einaudi Center faculty.

Tom Garrett at Romanian embassy.

Fall 2024 Highlight: Tom Garrett

Einaudi's Lund Practitioner in Residence

Tom Garrett mentored this year’s Undergraduate Global Scholars, informed by decades of experience promoting democracy. He led workshops on topics including democratic advocacy and U.S. elections in a global context and advised students on their democracy-building capstone projects. 

Read about Garrett's semester on campus(link is external) at the Einaudi Center and Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.

April 11, 2024: Getting to Climate Justice

This hybrid event explored how citizens and policymakers worldwide can act to increase justice in our shared climate crisis.

Lund debate 2024 climate justice, Emma Ractliffe holding mic
Lund debate 2024 hybrid, two speakers with third speaker on screen
Lund debate 2024 climate justice, Kate Aronoff speaking
  • Kate Aronoff: climate journalist, The New Republic
  • Joshua Busby: security expert, University of Texas at Austin

Cornell Chronicle: Lund Panelists Chart Different Paths to Climate Justice(link is external); YouTube: Watch the Video(link is external)

Past Lund Debates

2023: Democracy and Its Opposites

  • Thomas E. Garrett, Community of Democracies
  • Damon Wilson, National Endowment for Democracy

Cornell Chronicle: Lund Debate to Bring Democracy Experts into Conversation(link is external); YouTube: Watch the Video(link is external)

Wilson and Garrett, Lund Debate April 2023
Damon Wilson (left) and Thomas E. Garrett (middle), with Einaudi Center director Rachel Beatty Riedl on April 24, 2023.

2022: Migration in the Age of Pandemics

  • Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab, World Health Organization Deputy Director-General
  • Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair

Cornell Chronicle: Lund Debate Examines Migrations, Global Public Health(link is external), YouTube: Watch the Video(link is external)

2020: The Police and the Public

  • Luís Carrilho, United Nations Police Adviser 
  • Christian Davenport, University of Michigan 

Cornell Chronicle: Lund Critical Debate to Address Global Policing, Social Justice(link is external), YouTube: Watch the Video(link is external)

2019: U.S.-Mexico Relations Under Trump

  • Sandra Fuentes-Berain, Mexican Ambassador Emeritus
  • Roberta Jacobson, Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Cornell Chronicle: Ambassadors to Address Border Policy(link is external), Cornell Daily Sun: Status Quo or Radical Change?(link is external)