Afghan political scientist and Global Public Voices fellow Sharif Hozoori joined Cornell in August 2021 as a visiting scholar at Einaudi’s South Asia Program. He describes his situation as a scholar under threat and his vision for an egalitarian Afghanistan.

Mabel Berezin, sociology professor and director of the Institute for European Studies, discusses the violent protests in France on the podcast Press Play with Madeleine Brand. 

Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government, discusses America's relationship with China on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival. 

“Some degree of economic integration is beneficial to the companies on both sides and overall prosperity of both peoples,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government. 

Estelle McKee and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, both professors of law, discuss recent migrant bans in this opinion essay.

“These orders are going to be discriminatory in impact and on their face, meaning in their text, because in the order they explicitly singled out migrants and asylum seekers,” says Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of law.

Estelle McKee, professor of immigration law, recounts her experience representing an El Salvadorian man with schizophrenia who was deported after being denied Convention Against Torture relief.

“It’s not that one piece of content is going to be devastating; it’s the collective, scaled approach to inauthenticity that’s the problem. People can do this at scale now. It can look like massive numbers of citizens are supporting a particular issue when they’re not,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government.

“It is perceived as an extraordinarily high level of dysfunction in an economy that provides the largest number of safe assets to the world," says Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy, "and is in principle seen as the most important cog in the global financial system.”

Robert Hockett, professor of law and finance, discusses the national debt in this opinion essay.