In The News: August 28, 2025

‘In the News’ is a roundup of recent media coverage featuring the Johns Hopkins SAIS community and is produced and distributed by the Office of Marketing and Communications.

FACULTY U.S. & INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

A Defining Test Looms for India. C. V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Practice Joshua White quoted in The Economist, 8/28

Mobile Communication as Mental Health Policy: Lessons from Ghana During COVID-19. Associate Professor Belinda Archibong wrote in VoxDev, 8/27
 
Chobani Founder’s Football Foray Sparks Nationalist Ire in Turkey. Assistant Professor Lisel Hintz quoted in Al-Monitor, 8/25

President Trump Renews His Threats to Impose Sanctions. Adjunct Lecturer and FPI Senior Fellow Jeffrey Pryce interviewed by LBC, 8/23

Deadly Attacks in Colombia Cast a Shadow on the President’s Peace-With-Guerrillas Policy. Adjunct Lecturer Cynthia Arnson quoted in AP News, 8/22

Doubts Grow on Ukraine Security Plan as Russia Demands Role. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe Sergey Radchenko quoted in The Japan Times, 8/22

Worlds Apart: New Comments by Russia’s Foreign Minister Confirm That Moscow Has Not Made the Concessions in Ukraine Talks Claimed by the Trump Administration. Sergey Radchenko quoted in Meduza, 8/20

Power and Peril in Reagan’s Last Cold War Chapter. Sergey Radchenko quoted in War On The Rocks, 8/20

The Culture War Roiling One of Turkey's Top Universities. Lisel Hintz quoted in Financial Times, 8/19

Iran’s Roads Not Taken. Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs Vali Nasr wrote in Foreign Affairs, 8/19

The Weaponized World Economy. SNF Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs Henry Farrell wrote in Foreign Affairs, 8/19

Iran's Military Elites Emerges from War Bruised and Emboldened. Associate Professor and Co-Director of Rethinking Iran Narges Bajoghli quoted in Bloomberg, 8/19

Exit Costs Are Entry Costs: Why India Needs to Ease Exit Barriers for Manufacturing Firms. Assistant Professor of International Economics Shoumitro Chatterjee wrote in VoxEU, 8/19

Grading Trump’s Ukraine Diplomacy. Sergey Radchenko quoted in DNYUZ, 8/18

President Trumps Fails to Secure a Deal Ending the War in Ukraine. Jeffrey Pryce interviewed by LBC, 8/17

What to Expect from the Alaska Summit. Adjunct Lecturer and FPI Senior Fellow Jeffrey Pryce interviewed by LBC, 8/15

WTO Accession in Uzbekistan. (Uzbek) Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Arthur Appleton interviewed by O’Zbekiston 24, 8/14

What To Watch for In Pivotal Trump-Putin Alaska Meeting. Sergey Radchenko interviewed by WBUR, 8/14

Not Unprecedented but Unprincipled. Sergey Radchenko wrote in Foreign Policy, 8/13

Europe Is Squandering an Opportunity on Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran. James Anderson Professor of Practice at SAIS Europe Nathalie Tocci wrote in World Politics Review, 8/6

How Syria’s New Government Risks Undermining Itself. Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Rob Geist Pinfold wrote in Middle East Council on Global Affairs, 8/3
 
Creating Chaos in Gaza ‘Part of Israel’s Day-After Plan’. Rob Geist Pinfold interviewed by Al Jazeera, 8/2

Populist Leaders in the Balkans Must Be Held Accountable for Saying One Thing in Brussels and Another at Home. Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Arts in Global Policy Sinisa Vukovic interviewed by WestBalkanNet, 7/31
 
U Crnoj Gori se gradi sistem koji nije liberalan u suštini, represivan u formi, autoritaran u namjeri. (Bosnian) Sinisa Vukovic quoted in Portal ETV, 7/31

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

What to Expect from the US-South Korea Summit. Phd alumnus ‘03 Jae H. Ku wrote in The National Interest, 8/22

Russia’s Imperial Black Sea Strategy. FPI Senior Fellow Daniel Hamilton wrote in Foreign Affairs, 8/19

'We'll Give Them Very Good Protection, Very Good Security' — Trump Says in White House Meeting with Zelensky. MAIR student ’26 Anna Fratsyvir wrote in The Kyiv Independent, 8/18

The Inflation Panic Is All Wrong. HowTariffs Could Lead to Interest Rate Cuts. DIA student '27 Julia Graf wrote in Barron’s, 8/14

Protecting Undersea Cables and South Korea's Role. DIA alumna '22 and Reischauer Center Fellow Amy Paik wrote in The Washington Quarterly, 7/7

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