In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, Prof. Minxin Pei explored the costs of deglobalization for China in a world divided by Putin’s war: reduced access to major Western markets, loss of access to the technologies it needs to build a knowledge economy, and the loss of efficiency gains from dynamic competition. “Although the coming deglobalization process will leave everyone worse off, China stands to lose the most,” he said.

In this New York Times opinion piece, Prof. Jon Shields, co-director of CMC’s Open Academy, explains how he gets students to engage in open inquiry with a mix of classroom norms and guidelines. “While robust defenses of free expression and debate, like the ‘Chicago Principles’ ... are important,” he writes, “they do little to soften the climate of fear that has gripped our campuses.” This is because they “neglect the concrete social norms necessary to facilitate and regulate the collective search for truth in college classrooms.”

Prof. Hilary Appel was interviewed on CNBC to assess the ceasefire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, as well as security guarantees sought from NATO by Ukraine President Zelenskyy. “There is no way that the security guarantees that he hopes to get from the existing NATO member states and other countries are the least bit realistic,” she said.

In a Nikkei Asia op-ed, Prof. Minxin Pei suggested a strategy for preventing war in East Asia, looking at what the United States, China, and Taiwan can learn from the war in Ukraine. “While it is unlikely that the three protagonists can reach a new political understanding in an environment of enmity and distrust, they still need to intensify diplomatic efforts to know what each other’s bottom line is and find a new modus vivendi,” he said.