While many of the speakers during the event lamented a broken system, Chris Barrett, professor and co-editor-in-chief of Food Policy at Cornell University, said it is not all gloom and doom. He said the system has been phenomenally successful in 2020 such that the world is seeing a record high cereal harvesting despite the pandemic and climate change. He also said about 5 billion people will have access to affordable healthy diets this year.“How do we combat the challenges while acknowledging the successes?” he asked.

Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, writes this opinion piece about the language used in policies for coronavirus safety.

“It has never been more important to understand the domestic tensions and debates that seethe inside China, even as the worsening domestic and international climate have made traditional modes of face-to-face research more difficult,” says, Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government.

In this op-ed, professor of government Allen Carlson writes that the Tibetan leader's recent visit to the White House may have made Tibet more vulnerable as a pawn in a game of power politics.

“There is a danger that (Chinese President) Xi Jinping will see this period as one of especially pronounced American weakness and look to take advantage of it to forcefully move to challenge the status quo in China's peripheral regions,” says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government. 

Ian Kysel, Global Public Voices fellow and Migrations researcher, says mass immigration detention puts the entire community at risk.

Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security? 

From Anindita Banerjee (SAP) and Debra Castillo (LASP/PACS): South of the Future: Marketing Care ... in South Asia and the Americas.

Einaudi students reflect on personal experiences of racism and border crossings. Don't miss this powerful conversation at Global Cornell.