This webinar, hosted by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, features experts in finance, international policy, and labor economics discussing the unprecedented sanctions being levied at Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

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Dr. Henry Maar argues for the significance of the often-overlooked Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign to the arms control talks at the end of the Cold War. Launched in 1979 based on the ideas of Randall Forsberg, the Freeze campaign rallied the public for a simple, yet radical proposal: bilaterally halt (or "freeze") the testing, deployment, and production of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Freeze campaign soon catapulted into the mainstream of political discussion, garnering bipartisan endorsements from the US Congress. The highest levels of the Reagan White House privately conceded the antinuclear backlash was potentially the most important national security challenge facing the administration. As the Freeze grew in popularity, the administration was left with a choice: reverse its nuclear saber-rattling or continue to face the ire of the public at the ballot box.

About the speaker

Henry Maar is a modern US Historian specializing in the relationship between domestic politics, peace activism, and US foreign relations. He is the author of FREEZE! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War, published by Cornell University Press. He received his Ph.D. in History from UC Santa Barbara in 2015 and was subsequently the Agnese N. Huary post-doctoral fellow at New York University's Center for the Study of the Cold War and the United States. He has previously taught at UC Santa Barbara and Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is currently a lecturer at California State University, Northridge.

Read his recently published article in the Washington Post.

This seminar is part of the spring seminar series with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS).

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes the first major land war in Europe in decades. It threatens lives across the region, the post–Cold War international order—and the stability of the global economy, as the United States, European allies, and countries around the world have imposed severe sanctions on Russia and supplied varying levels of aid to Ukraine.

In cooperation with the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and College of Arts and Sciences, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has convened this expert panel to respond to the injustice and massive violation of sovereignty, human rights, and peace.

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of Russian domestic and foreign policy, Ukrainian nationhood and security response, human rights and migration, economic sanctions’ impact, and international and European consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The panel includes Dmitry Bykov, a Russian dissident and Open Society University Network threatened scholar sponsored by Global Cornell and hosted by the Einaudi Center's Institute for European Studies (IES), in partnership with Ithaca City of Asylum.

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Panelists:

Mabel Berezin (IES Director; Professor, Department of Sociology/A&S)Dmitry Bykov (Russian writer and dissident; scholar at risk hosted by IES)Cristina Florea (Assistant Professor, Department of History/A&S)Nicholas Mulder (Assistant Professor, Department of History/A&S)Bryn Rosenfeld (Assistant Professor, Department of Government/A&S)Stephen Yale-Loehr (Migrations faculty fellow; Professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School)Moderator:

Rachel Beatty Riedl (Einaudi Center Director; Professor, Department of Government/A&S and Cornell Brooks School)

Introduction:

Wendy Wolford (Vice Provost of International Affairs; Professor, Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

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Live Screening: Statler 196

Students: Join the campus community in Statler 196 at 4:30 to watch the panel live. Sponsored by the Einaudi Center, A&S, and Cornell Brooks School.

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About the Series

The new Einaudi Center Critical Conversations Series brings together world-class regional, historical, and comparative experts to promote deeper understanding of global current events and emerging crises on the world stage. The stakes for our shared future have never been higher—so please join us for these critical conversations.

This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.

This panel discussion, based on the book Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society (Routledge, 2022), will explore the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of the global order. Since 2002, when the first use of an armed drone for the targeted killing of a terrorist was authorized in Yemen, the literature for drone warfare has evolved from studying the proliferation of drones, measuring their effectiveness, and exploring their legal, moral, and ethical impacts. However, these "three waves" of scholarship do not address its implications for the global order. The panelists argue that drone warfare imposes contradictions on the structural and normative pillars of global order. The panel discussion will point to the emergence of a "fourth wave" of scholarship to better contend with the social and political implications of drones.

About the speakers

Paul Lushenko is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and General Andrew Jackson Goodpaster Scholar at Cornell University, where he is pursuing a PhD in International Relations.

Keith Carter is U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Director of the Defense and Strategic Studies Program at the United States Military Academy.

William Maley is an Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University, where he was Professor of Diplomacy from 2003-2021.

This seminar is part of the spring seminar series with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS).

Cosponsored by the Department of Government, and the Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University.

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In accordance with university event guidance, all campus visitors who are 12 years old or older must also present a photo ID, as well as proof of vaccination for COVID-19 or results of a recent negative COVID-19 test. If you are not currently participating in the Cornell campus vaccination/testing program, please bring proof of vaccination or the results of a recent negative test.