Selected contributors to the book Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, Open Access via Project Muse) were asked to provide brief updates to their cases studies. Since the book’s publication, the COVID pandemic has receded, although not disappeared, as a force shaping global higher education networks and national policy, but more importantly geopolitical events that now include Putin’s war on Ukraine, increased autocratic control in many parts of the world as well as a rising tide of neo-nationalism parties...