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After three years of war in Ukraine, Cornell experts assess endgame

February 24, 2025

Nicholas Mulder is an assistant professor of history and studies the origin and effects of economic sanctions. 

Foreign Policy
International

Cornell experts on war in Ukraine, global ripple effects

September 21, 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with severe economic sanctions from Europe and the United States that will have ripple effects throughout the global economy. These Cornell University experts are available to discuss the conflict and its implications.

International
Law, Government & Public Policy
Economics and Business

COP 26 ushers ‘new domain of geopolitics’ as Russia demands sanction relief

October 26, 2021

Sanctions historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demands for sanction relief for green energy projects.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Law and Policy
Arts and Sciences

‘Mild’ Russian sanctions signal need for de-escalation

April 15, 2021

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.

International
Arts and Sciences

‘Coronabonds’ and stimulus: EU ministers tackle unprecedented shock

April 7, 2020

On Tuesday, finance ministers from the Eurozone will meet virtually to discuss how to best address the region’s economic crisis. Nicholas Mulder says that while the tools at hand to ease the economic crisis in Europe are not new, the shock the entire continent currently faces is unprecedented.  

International
Arts and Sciences

30 years after fall of Berlin Wall, barriers keep going up

October 31, 2019

November 9th will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 155 km-long concrete barrier that separated the city for almost three decades. While traces of the wall are still scattered around Berlin’s neighborhoods, the cold-war ideological divide between the Eastern and Western areas of the city has all but disappeared.

International
Arts and Sciences
Architecture, Art and Planning

Cornell experts on coronavirus - International impact

May 12, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has become a global crisis that impacts countries around the world in different, yet often similarly devastating ways. Cornell experts can discuss how the infection is having an impact on health systems - as well as on politics - of countries in Asia, Africa and South America.


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