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Abstract：

How has the last decade amplified and challenged the themes of Kennedy’s 2015 book, Globalizing Knowledge? First discussed publicly at Singapore Management University in that year, we can see that concerns over intellectual responsibility and university accountability abide. However, changes in American and global power relations, anticipated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but finding new fulfillment in the proliferation of strongmen politics elsewhere, challenge how academic freedom is to be conceived and the politics of diversity and inclusion articulated. Kennedy draws on his own Brown University’s experience to characterize the recent past & anticipate alternative futures.