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The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence From Vietnam

Trang Hoang, Devashish Mitra, Hoang Pham

The article, co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, was published in the Journal of Development Economics.

June 10, 2026

Murrett Talks to CBS News about the Latest Negotiations to End U.S. War with Iran

"There's going to be some people that are unhappy with any deal that's struck, no matter what the final arrangements look like, " says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs, on negotiations to end the war with Iran and open the Strait of Hormuz.
May 26, 2026

Khalil Speaks With News4JAX About the War in Iran

“There is room for negotiation on the nuclear program. But one of the things Iran is looking for is the following: they want the United States to agree, or at least to recognize, its right—Iran's right—too enrich uranium under the nuclear non-proliferation agreement that Iran signed and other countries have signed,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program. 

May 20, 2026

Murrett Discusses Strait of Hormuz, Project Freedom Pause With CBS News, Newsweek, RadioFreeEurope

“Iran does have significant leverage due to geography and capability. At the same time, it is very much in Iran’s interest to keep the strait open, given how much of its economy depends on exports moving through it. Our military posture is important in creating leverage for a diplomatic solution that would allow free and open navigation,” says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.

May 7, 2026

Khalil Quoted in Clarín Article on the Middle East Ceasefire

Osamah Khalil, professor of history, predicts that “if an agreement is reached based on the Iranian proposal, especially the lifting of sanctions and guarantees against future attacks, Tehran will emerge from this war battered but victorious, just the opposite of what Trump and Netanyahu claimed would happen.”
April 13, 2026

Exports and Intergenerational Mobility

Devashish Mitra, Hoang Pham, Beyza Ural Marchand

Co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, the study was published in the Journal of International Economics.

March 13, 2026

Mitra Weighs In on the US Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling in Hindustan Times Article

“A prudent approach for India is to let uncertainties arising out of the SCOTUS ruling resolve themselves to the extent possible before finalizing the trade deal,” says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.

March 5, 2026

Khalil Discusses the Tensions in the Middle East, Negotiations Between the US and Iran With CBS News

“The Iranians have indicated...that they are willing to have a deal. What they want are their rights to enrich uranium that are guaranteed under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), that any country who signed on the the NPT has. But the Trump administration is insisting that there be no enrichment at all,” says Osamah Khalil, professor of history.

February 26, 2026

Khalil Discusses Phase Two of the Gaza Peace Plan With CBS News

“We're still not very close to phase two coming into place. Hamas is unlikely to disarm willingly and Israel is not going to be able to disarm them,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program.

January 5, 2026

Taylor Quoted in LA Times Article on Europe’s Alarm Over Trump’s Approach to Ukraine

“If the U.S. stops even doing that—and it would be quite a radical policy change if the U.S. is unwilling even to sell weapons to European countries—then Europe will have to continue on the path it is already on, which is to bolster its own defense production capacity,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

December 15, 2025

Murrett Speaks With CBS News About Russia's Position on the Peace Proposal With Ukraine

“I think the big resistance that will probably come out of the Kremlin will have to do with some of what they always describe as the underlying conditions, which is security guarantees for Ukraine, but some way precluding them from joining the NATO alliance, and also some ambiguous language regarding their joing the European Union,” says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.
December 8, 2025

Taylor Discusses the Talks Between Top US Officials and Ukrainian Delegation on LiveNOW from FOX

“I think the fundamental problem remains, that Vladimir Putin wants to subjugate and control Ukraine and Ukraine wants to stay independent and sovereign and make its own political choices. So it's really hard to see a meaningful deal coming out of this,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Insititute of Global Affairs. 

December 1, 2025

International Bureaucrats Under Transparency: The Case of the WTO TRIPS Council

Sojun Park & Minju Kim

Co-authored by Minju Kim, assistant professor of political science, the article was published in the Review of International Organizations.

November 18, 2025

Monarch Speaks With the National News Desk About US-China 'Framework' Trade Agreement

“We're on an upward tide in relations for right now, but in general in the long term, I would expect this kind of ratcheting up and down to continue,” says Ryan Monarch, associate professor of economics.

October 29, 2025

Khalil Quoted in PolitiFact Article on President Trump’s Speech in Israel

Osamah Khalil, professor of history and expert on the modern Middle East, says it’s untrue that Obama or Biden “held a personal animus toward Israel, especially Biden. Indeed, both administrations oversaw expansions in U.S. military assistance and coordination with Israel.”

October 13, 2025

Gueorguiev Discusses the US-China Deal on TikTok With the Associated Press, NBC News and NY Times

“Chinese officials have let the issue fester for years, holding it in reserve as a problem they could one day solve to defuse pressure from Washington,” says Dimitar Gueorguiev, associate professor of political science. “A deal now costs Beijing less than when negotiations started, while still yielding the maximum optics of compromise.”

September 22, 2025

Khalil Quoted in HuffPost Article on World Leaders Recognizing a Palestinian State

“Unless the decision is followed by a renewed and robust peace negotiations that bring an end to Israel’s war in Gaza as well as the settlement and annexation policies in the occupied West Bank, recognition will be too little and far too late,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program.

September 22, 2025

Haq Discusses the Trump-Putin Meeting in MSNBC Article

“After Trump and Putin met for more than two hours Friday, and then praised each other to the media for about 12 minutes, it was clear that Trump, in his rush to meet with Putin, not only risked whatever was left of his image as a dealmaker-in-chief, but he also may have damaged the United States’ image as a global champion for democracy,” writes Nayyera Haq, assistant dean for Maxwell-in-Washington.

August 21, 2025

Williams Quoted in Los Angeles Times Article on the Challenges Trumps Faces in Gaza and Ukraine

Michael Williams, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, says that Trump has advocated for a ceasefire in Ukraine “at the expense of other strategic priorities such as stability in Europe and punishment of Russia through increased aid to Ukraine.”

August 12, 2025

Khalil Speaks With Clarín About Trump’s Meeting With the President of Syria

The meeting between Trump and al-Sharaa “represents a remarkable shift in U.S. policy toward al-Qaeda and its affiliates. More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks and the declaration of the Global War on Terror, the United States is developing relations with a former leader of the organization who now declares himself a moderate,” says Osamah Khalil, professor of history.

May 21, 2025

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