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.
WaPo reviews an “elegant and informative” new book by Sophie Pinkham (IES) that examines Russian history through the perspective of forests.
Tata-Cornell Institute director Prabhu Pingali (SAP) talks with Jocelyn Boiteau about food loss and waste on the Farm to Table Talk podcast.
According to a new book by Rachel Sandwell (IAD), South African women played a major role in the fight against apartheid with their diplomatic work and advocacy for sex education, birth control, and childcare.
In this op-ed, CRADLE cofounder Kaushik Basu (SAP/IES) argues the shift toward authoritarianism unfolds across a series of small, insidious steps—and universities may lead or reinforce political conformity.
Judith Byfield talks with This American Life about Nigerian teacher and women's protest movement leader Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.
A new book from Cristina Florea (IES/PACS) recounts the complex history of Bukovina, a vanished borderland and buffer between Christendom and Islam. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine.
Andrew Willford (SAP/SEAP) explores how culture shapes psychological symptoms in his new book, “Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic: Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India.”
“Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media,” by Andrew Campana (EAP), “opens a strikingly original conversation at the crossroads of media, language, technology, and the body.”
Mayor-elect Mamdani promised to raise NYC's income tax on the rich. Sociologist Cristobal Young (IES) explains his data showing millionaires rarely migrate over taxes.
