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World in Focus Briefs

Research and Policy Insights from Einaudi Experts

Explore recent research publications and op-eds by our faculty. Their global perspectives help put our world in focus.

Migrations Program director Kathryn Fiorella coauthored an article, “Commercially Traded Fish Portfolios Mask Household Utilization of Biodiversity in Wild Food Systems,” in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS.
The Migrations Program's Amanda Rodewald (Lab of Ornithology) explains why people and birds migrate—and what communities and policymakers can do to develop sustainable solutions (podcast).
Ten area studies and government experts weigh in on worldwide elections.
“The current debate about outsourcing is often framed as a battle between workers…. But this overlooks the fact that outsourcing is fundamentally a labor-versus-capital issue,” writes CRADLE's Kaushik Basu.
PACS associate director Sabrina Karim joined the Cornell Chronicle for an interview about her new book on how women's status affects different forms of political violence.
SAP program manager Daniel Bass speaks to the BBC about the election of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (video). 
ILR/Brooks faculty Shannon Gleeson (Migrations) has won the 2024 Best Book Award from the Latin@/x Caucus of the American Political Science Association for her coauthored book Scaling Migrant Worker Rights.
Institute for European Studies director Mabel Berezin joined Dora Mengüç (Dora Reports) before France's high-stakes parliamentary elections to discuss Europe's shift to the right. 
Can an increase in knowledge ever be bad? A Royal Society Open Science paper from Kaushik Basu (CRADLE) theorizes that it can be—when people use it to act in their own self-interest.
Amanda Rodewald (LACS) describes how cocaine trafficking threatens two-thirds of the most important bird habitats in Central America. Her team's research appeared in the journal Nature Sustainability in June.