Iran Escalation: Experts Available This Week

If you’re covering the latest developments with Iran and their impact on Israel, the U.S., China, Russia, global supply chains, and more, Syracuse University faculty experts are available for interviews this week. Below, you’ll find a list of experts along with their titles and areas of expertise. To schedule an interview, please contact our media team at media@syr.edu.

• Retired Vice Admiral Robert Murrett is a professor of practice at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and serves as the deputy director of Syracuse University’s Institute for Security Policy and Law. His areas of expertise include national security, international relations, military and defense strategy, and leadership.
• Sean McFate is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Army veteran. McFate is an expert on 21st century war and changing international relations.
• Osamah Khalil is a history professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His areas of expertise include U.S. foreign relations, modern Middle East, Cold War, and Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Tetiana Hranchak is a Ukraine native and visiting research scholar in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University. Her expertise is in Russia politics and relations, media literacy, countering misinformation and propaganda and the role of libraries in the politics of memory.
• Patrick Penfield is professor of supply chain management in the Whitman School of Management and is keeping an eye on possible shipping slowdown/stoppages in the Strait of Hormuz. Penfield says “20% of global oil and gas pass through this area and China, India and Japan import over 80% of their oil and gas supplies from this region. If we saw any stoppage with oil and gas supplies we would see a similar supply chain shock that we saw with COVID, and tariffs.”