On Thursday, the Biden administration announced economic sanctions on Russia in retaliation for alleged election interference and cyberattacks.    Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history at Cornell University, studies the origin and effects of economic sanctions. His first book “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War” is forthcoming with Yale University Press.

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The International Court of Justice is hearing a case brought by Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of racial discrimination.

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Uriel Abulof says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will need ‘all the magic he can muster’ to form a governing coalition in the wake of elections.

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Alexandra Blackman, assistant professor of government at Cornell University, comments on the Middle East deal signing Trump will be presiding on Tuesday. 

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Jerel Ezell, professor of Africana studies and an expert in health disparities and social inequality in post-industrial communities, comments on the Senate approval of a bipartisan, $35 billion bill to upgrade the country’s water infrastructure.

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Sarah Kreps, a technology, international politics and national security expert, comments on two new investigations from the European Union's privacy watchdog into EU institutions’ use of cloud computing services offered by Amazon and Microsoft.

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Sarah Kreps is a professor of government and international relations at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the use of drones for counterterrorism, cyber security and cyber escalation. Kreps says that if countries are going to be turning to unmanned tech on the ground, a human should be kept in the loop on decisions about life and death.

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Top officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Anchorage on Thursday and Friday for the first high level summit after President Biden took office. Cornell University experts, Allen Carlson and Robert Hockett, are available to discuss the political and economic implications of the summit.

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Donald Campbell, professor of astronomy and former director of the Arecibo Observatory, is available to speak to Arecibo's impact on scientific discovery.

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The International Court of Justice ordered Azerbaijan on Tuesday to prevent and punish acts of vandalism and desecration affecting Armenian cultural heritage sites during ongoing conflict in the region.

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Foreign Policy

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