Research
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is Cornell's hub for global thinking and action. From Bangkok to Bogota, from Kolkata to Kyiv, Einaudi’s global research helps us all make sense of the world.
Global Research Priorities
The Einaudi Center's faculty, postdocs, visiting scholars, and students cross disciplinary lines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems. Global research priorities are centerwide focal points for our research funding, events, and experts' media and policy commentary. We focus each year on issues where the stakes for ordinary citizens are high and informed public voices about the conditions that shape our lives are critically needed.
Top Priority: Democratic Threats and Resilience
Einaudi Center researchers are working together to identify the factors that make democratic institutions worldwide vulnerable to internal subversion and, more importantly, the conditions under which they are resilient.
Recent Results
- Democratic backsliding is occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries once thought immune to such forces—the United States among them.
- Einaudi's democratic threats researchers identified episodes of decline in nearly 40 countries since 1990. Half exceeded the wealth threshold above which social scientists have previously believed advanced industrial democracies could not break down.
- Learn more about the team's findings.
World in Focus Briefs
Our faculty put the world in focus. Explore research and policy insights from Einaudi experts.
