All is not well for Ukraine
Stephen Bryen
The delivery of tanks, advanced air defense systems and potentially long-range ground-launched bombs may be a response to Ukraine’s dire requests, but it also brings with it a new load of problems.
Ukrainian military casualties are big trouble for Biden
Stephen Bryen
"Ukraine has likely lost 100,000 soldiers who won’t readily be replaced while US arms deliveries are depleting stocks and exposing security holes in Asia."
Russia, Ukraine and Preventing Nuclear Holocaust
Jeffrey Sachs
CSES External Board Member and University Professor at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs recently joined The Tulsi Gabbard Show to discuss the threat of nuclear war and U.S. foreign policy under the Biden administration.
Busting a Myth about NATO and Ukraine
Richard W. Miller
A widespread misconception of NATO’s relation to Ukraine has been sustained by silence in news sources and falsehoods by pundits. According to this myth, the NATO-Ukraine connection, prior to Russia’s current horrific invasion, was a matter of Ukraine’s asking to join and NATO’s not saying “No.” In fact, over the last fourteen years, NATO’s conduct has gone far beyond openness to eventual admission, in engagements that have included extensive and expanding joint military operations in Ukraine. This involvement, which was accompanied by US effor
Chomsky: Peace Talks in Ukraine “Will Get Nowhere” If US Keeps Refusing to Join
C.J. Polychroniou
In a recent interview conducted by C.J. Polychroniou for Teachout, Noam Chomsky argues that peace talks in Ukraine will "get nowhere" if the United States refuses to join.
U.S. Can’t Absolve Itself of Responsibility for Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
Andrew Bacevich
For the media and for members of the public more generally, the eruption of war creates an urgent need to affix blame and identify villains. Rendering such judgments helps make sense of an otherwise inexplicable event. It offers assurance that the moral universe remains intact, with a bright line separating good and evil.
I was there: NATO and the origins of the Ukraine crisis
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Today we face an avoidable crisis between the United States and Russia that was predictable, willfully precipitated, but can easily be resolved by the application of common sense.
‘We Are Coming Apart at the Seams’: Columbia Prof. Jeffrey Sachs Discusses Global Cooperation
Vidya Balaji
A recent article in the The Cornell Daily Sun on Jeffrey D. Sachs' November 15th lecture at CSES.
The China Sleepwalking Syndrome
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
If the Sino-American relationship were a hand of poker, Americans would recognize that they have been dealt a good hand and avoid succumbing to fear or belief in the decline of the US. But even a good hand can lose if it is played badly.
Francis Fukuyama Lecture Photo Gallery
October 18, 2021
Francis Fukuyama was the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.” His lecture, introduced by Cornell President Martha E. Pollack, highlighted the key challenges facing global democracy: pandemic, climate change, and political polarization.
Photography: Dave Burbank
Francis Fukuyama Talk Launches Series on Global Crises
Wesley Stubenbord
“Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 will be the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s new fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.” The series will examine the issues and choices facing the U.S. in a multipolar global economy and shifting world system.”
Center Links Economy and Society to Study Changing World
James Dean, Cornell Chronicle
“As its founding director 20 years ago, Victor Nee didn’t imagine the Center for the Study of Economy and Society (CSES) taking an interest in New York City’s tech economy. The city hardly had one to speak of – on par with Philadelphia’s, and a bit player compared to financial services, real estate or tourism.
Now, New York claims the nation’s second-largest tech economy after Silicon Valley, and the development of regional knowledge economies is one of several primary areas of research focus for the center’s Economic Sociology Lab, supported by graduate researchers and undergraduate assistants.”
