Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Williams Quoted in National Magazine Article on Conscription in Canada
“The U.S. and Canada will do anything possible to avoid a draft,” says Michael Williams, associate professor of public administration and international affairs. If war breaks out, a coalition force of North American professional military personnel would likely do the fighting, alongside existing European troops, he says.
See related: Canada, International Affairs, National Security, NATO
McCormick Talks to NewsNation About Mexico’s New President, Ability to Deal With Drug Cartels
“When she [Claudia Sheinbaum] comes in, she is inheriting this mess, but she doesn’t necessarily have the charisma that (López Obrador) does,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations. “So it’s going to be a tall ask.”
See related: Crime & Violence, Government, Latin America & the Caribbean, National Security
Taylor Discusses the Impact of Ukraine Using Western Weapons Against Russia With Fox News, La Presse
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, says that the authorization given by the U.S. and Germany to Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil with weapons they supply could have an impact on the balance of power on Ukrainian territory.
See related: Conflict, Europe, Government, International Agreements, NATO, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. National Security, United States
Eighty Years After it Happened, Allport Discusses D-Day with CBS News, Forbes, The Hill and SU News
The world is now reaching the point “where it’s kind of the twilight of lived experience, where from this point onwards, D-Day is going to be just a historical event that nobody who participates in commemorations had any personal memory of,” says Alan Allport, Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History.
Kriesberg Discusses Ways Out of the War in Gaza in Foreign Policy in Focus Blog
“Each of the possible changes in the current conflict in Gaza looks improbable, until steps are taken to make it happen,” says Louis Kriesberg, professor emeritus of sociology and Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies.
See related: Conflict, Middle East & North Africa
Murrett Speaks With EWTN, NPR About Getting Humanitarian Aid Into Gaza
“I think this is actually a significant—you know, it moves the needle. I think it sends an important signal to the civilian population in Gaza that we are concerned about them,” Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs, says of the U.S. military's use of a floating pier to get food and other supplies to the people in Gaza.
See related: Conflict, Government, International Affairs, Middle East & North Africa
Hranchak Speaks With The National About the Delay in US Military Aid for Ukraine
“Taking advantage of the delay in aid and the fact that the Ukrainians could not respond adequately, the Russians intensified their shelling of our power plants, and today Ukraine is forced to resort to blackouts to preserve electricity,” says Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
See related: Conflict, Congress, International Affairs, Russia, Ukraine, United States
Khalil Talks to the NY Times, WABC-TV About the Crisis in the Middle East
“There are 1.4 million Palestinians now who have been displaced for the second or third time in seven months. ...They're living in camps, disease is rampant, we have famine spreading throughout Gaza, and the reality is unless the international community, led by the United States, steps in and brings a halt to this, we could be looking at a major disaster,” says Osamah Khalil, professor of history.
See related: Conflict, Government, International Affairs, Middle East & North Africa
Popular Christian Communities and Religious Protest during Pinochet's Dictatorship, 1973–90
“Carrying the Cross: Popular Christian Communities and Religious Protest during Pinochet's Dictatorship, 1973–90,” authored by Assistant Professor of History Denisa Jashari, was published in the Journal of Latin American Studies.
See related: Conflict, Latin America & the Caribbean, Religion, Social Justice