Maxwell School Events Calendar
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Becoming a Professor as an Asian-American Woman, Formerly Undocumented Immigrant, and First-Generation College Student
220 Eggers Hall (The Strasser Legacy Room)
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Turkish Culture and Conversation Table
341 Eggers Hall
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Conversations featuring Adam Segal
Virtual event via Zoom
Almost from its first days in office, the Biden administration has been confronted with nation states using cyber operations to pursue strategic interests. The United States has also faced a wave of disruptive ransomware attacks that have highlighted the continued shortcoming of US cyber policy. How has the cyber threat evolved, and what new directions will cyber policy take under the Biden administration? Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Sponsored by PARCC Register for this event at https://tinyurl.com/parccregister. For more information, contact Roxanne Tupper at rmtupper@syr.edu or at 315-443-2367.
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Geopolitics in the Middle East - CFR Webinar
Virtual
The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) Academic Webinar series, formerly the Academic Conference Call series now in Zoom webinar format, provides the opportunity for students across the country and around the world to participate in an interactive conversation with a CFR fellow, Foreign Affairs author, or other expert. Webinars take place every other week during the fall and spring semesters and are dedicated to a wide range of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy topics. Background readings are distributed prior to each call, and the video recording and transcript are posted online after the fact. To register for this event or the webinar series, please email cfracademic@cfr.org, with your name, academic institution, and title. Featuring: Sanam Vakil, Chatham House This event is sponsored by the International Relations Program. For additional information, please email IRAdvisor@syr.edu.
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Hebrew Culture and Conversation Table
204 Maxwell Hall
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Disaster Capitalism and Political Instability in Africa: The Case of the Perennial Conflict in the DRC
Virtual
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Asiya Zahoor: Literary Imaginaries of Kashmir
204 Maxwell Hall
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Maxwell Professional Master’s Programs Admission and Financial Aid
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Amanda Clayton: Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide
220 Eggers Hall
Gender differences in concern about climate change are highly correlated with economic development: when countries are wealthier, a gap emerges whereby women are more likely than men to express concern about our changing climate. These differences stem from cross-national variation in men’s attitudes. Men, more than women, tend to be less concerned about climate change when countries are wealthier. We develop a new theory about the perceived costs and benefits of climate mitigation policy to explain the pattern. At the country level, the perceived benefits of mitigation tend to decrease with economic development, while the perceived costs increase. At the individual level, the perceived costs of mitigation tend to increase with economic development for men more than for women. Evidence from existing surveys in multiple world regions, an original ten-country survey in the Americas and Europe, and focus groups in Peru and the United States support our theory. Our findings bridge scholarship on gender, masculinity, and foreign economic policy preferences to uncover new correlates of public attitudes towards climate change.
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Walter Steingress: The fiscal impact of immigration in the United States: Evidence at the local level
341 Eggers Hall
This paper studies the causal impact of immigration to the United States on local government finances using county-level data from 1990 to 2010. The main contribution is to show that an increase in the population share of immigrants of a U.S. county does not significantly affect, on average, local public revenues and expenditures. This finding masks important heterogeneity in terms of the impact of immigrants with different skill levels: Inflows of high-skilled immigrants improve the fiscal health of local governments -- by increasing county-level revenues and expenditures -- while the arrival of low-skilled immigrants has the opposite impact. These effects are consistent with a framework in which tax rates do not (fully) adjust to changes in the population, hence per capita tax revenues and public benefits change as a consequence of immigration. One of the main channels of impact on county-level receipts is property tax revenues, which we show to be closely associated with changes in property values in response to immigration. The authors also find that transfers to the county from the federal government (only) partially offset the local fiscal impact of immigration.
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CPR Seminar Series: Tim Smeeding
426 Eggers Hall
CPR Seminar Series: Tim Smeeding
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People Make Their Own Map: Citizenship and Belonging in South Asia
204 Maxwell Hall
India is a land of borders, its peripheries nestling against seven countries. Over seven years, across 9,000 miles, Suchitra Vijayan travelled these borderlands. The more she travelled, the clearer it became to her that local history and memory bear no resemblance to the political history of the nation that claims these lands and peoples. From the densely populated border that India shares with Bangladesh to the highly disputed one with Pakistan, the stories in this book engage with how people live, struggle, fight and survive. A man escapes the floodlights that invade his home by blocking out all light, children use a border pillar as a handy cricket stump, and a family live out their lives beside the men who orchestrated their son’s death. These are stories that question our ideas of what freedom means and what it means to be a citizen.
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The DMZ’s Pasts and Futures
Virtual
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CANCELLED:Conversations featuring Tom Zoellner
Virtual event via Zoom
CANCELLED. We will try to reschedule him for another date. Sponsored by PARCC
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Chinese Culture and Conversation Table
341 Eggers Hall
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AI Research Tool – Working Group
TBA
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China Town Hall with Fareed Zakaria: Watch Party and Panel Discussion
032 Eggers Hall
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Germany after the Election: Continuity and Change, Challenges and Perspectives
220 Eggers Hall
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MA in International Relations: Curriculum Overview
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Eli Berman - Mostly Deterred: An Episodic Analysis of the Israel-Gaza Conflict
204 Maxwell
This paper assesses deterrence between a State and a Non-State actor in the context of the Israel - Gaza conflict. We build a comprehensive data set covering 2007- 2014 using original United Nations security reports, which capture over 16,000 Palestinian projectile launches and over 8,600 Israeli airstrikes, recorded with precise timing. We find a conflict characterized by frequent, short episodes of violence separated by quiet interludes. Episodes last less than one day and are followed by 3.5 days of calm, on average. Most episodes consist only of provocations that go unanswered. Moreover, most retaliation and counter-retaliation do not induce subsequent episodes. They appear to de-escalate within episode. These findings are consistent with a dynamic equilibrium exhibiting incomplete deterrence. Our data are inconsistent with the argument that retaliation perpetuates or escalates this conflict, though that conclusion could be drawn by misinterpreting a dynamic game with a vector autoregression approach.
We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.