Politics

Beatriz Silva da Costa, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

Emily Gregory, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

My research examines how since Russia invaded Ukraine the European Union has budgeted and provided critical financial support from both the supranational EU level and the EU’s twenty-seven member states to aid President Zelensky and the Ukrainians.

Mohammad AlYousef, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders.

My dissertation research seeks to develop a theory of citizen-state engagement in the context of Latin America’s urban informal settlements and how they engage with the state in the context of landslides and other environmental crises.

This preliminary research will focus on exploring and more fully if/how public procurements in Brazil can be used to reward campaign donations from firm donors.

My current research is focused on collective action and informal governance in the COVID-19 pandemic responses seen in the favelas of urban Brazil, particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power in a post-Covid world.

This interdisciplinary and collaborative research program is dedicated to the study of digital technologies and their consequences for local democracy.