Rachel Beatty Riedl, director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and a scholar of Sub-Saharan Africa political systems, says a return to civilian-lead government in Sudan is imperative.

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Richard T. Clark is a political scientist who studies policymaking at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Given the IMF’s prior hesitance to give to countries at war, he says the question at hand, is why the agreement came now rather than earlier in the crisis.

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Karim Khan, International Crimes Court (ICC) prosecutor had no choice but to announce arrest warrant be issued against two Israel senior officials, Benjamin Netanyau and Yoav Gallant, as well as three Hamas leaders, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh says Cornell University government professor Oumar Ba.

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On Saturday, Nigerians will head to the polls for a fiercely-competitive presidential election in Africa’s largest democracy. 

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David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University where he specializes in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis. He says that Zaluzhny appears to be taking the fall for recent failures and circumstances outside of Zelensky’s control.

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Gustavo Flores-Macías is an expert in Latin American politics at Cornell University. He is able to dissect what a reelection of President Nayib Bukele would mean.

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Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. He focuses on gender inequality alongside other dimensions of social inequality, including sexual orientation and race. He argues that the success of the French abortion rights vote underscores the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms.

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Venice has begun charging an entry fee for day trippers in an effort to keep tourism down. Residents protested the action and argued it will do nothing to curtail overtourism. Megan Epler Wood is managing director at the Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP) at Cornell University. She says STAMP research indicates tourism fees generally do not limit arrivals and do not cover costs for managing necessities like water and waste.

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David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University where he specializes in military history and defense policy. Despite vows of retaliation, Silbey says it’s unlikely that Tehran abandons its current strategy of supporting proxy attacks against US forces.

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Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology who studies social inequality with a focus on religion. He says that legalizing same-sex marriage in Greece would show other Eastern Orthodox Christians that providing rights does not undermine culture and values.

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