In commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Nicolas Mulder, assistant professor of government, sets in historical context the recent western sanctions against Russia, which, he writes, have been “sweeping and unrelenting since the country began waging war against Ukraine two months ago.”
“In Warsaw last month, President Joe Biden declared that ‘these economic sanctions are a new kind of economic statecraft with the power to inflict damage that rivals military might,’” Mulder writes in the piece. “Initially, many anticipated that such devastating economic pressure would force the Kremlin to break off its invasion…But while Russia’s growth prospects are now extremely dire, the sanctions’ ultimate outcome has proven as difficult to predict as that of the war itself.”
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From left, MFA students Gerardo Iglesias, Sarah Iqbal and Aishvarya Arora listen to observations by two young poets at the Ithaca Children’s Garden.
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Semiconductors are at the core of the economy and national security. Their importance makes them a target. Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, discusses how Cornell is helping to keep the semiconductor supply chain safe.
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The Peace Arch, situated near the westernmost point of the Canada–United States border in the contiguous United States, between Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia.
