In The News: February 13, 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
Nuclear Power and the Future of American Digital Dominance. Lecturer Anna Broughel wrote in The National Interest, 2/10
Kosovo Leader Faces Hunt for Coalition Partners After Election. FPI Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer Edward P. Joseph quoted in The Financial Times, 2/10
Trump Restates Commitment to US Owning Gaza. Senior Fellow of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by DW News, 2/9
Netanyahu Announces Support for Trump's Plan to Displace Palestinians from Gaza. (Arabic) Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by BBC Arabic, 2/6
Israel Welcomes Trump's Plan for U.S. To "Take Over" Gaza, as Allies and Adversaries Reject It. James Anderson Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Sanam Vakil quoted in CBS News, 2/6
Lessons from Soviet Foreign Policy with Sergey Radchenko. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe Sergey Radchenko interviewed by CSIS Podcast, 2/6
Henry Farrell On Trump II. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs Henry Farrell interviewed by The Second Captains World Service Podcast, 2/6
Make Moon Great Again — or Lose It to China? The New Space Race Heats Up. Adjunct Assistant Professor Svetla Ben-Itzhak quoted in Sky News, 2/6
China’s Long Economic Slowdown. Henry M. and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy Ho-Fung Hung wrote in Dissent, 2/6
Iran’s Regional Strategy, Shifting Dynamics, and U.S. Relations. Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs Vali Nasr interviewed by The Hub, 2/6
Trump's Plans for a 'Riviera of the Middle East' in Gaza Condemned. Sanam Vakil quoted in NBC News, 2/5
Trump’s Gaza Fantasy is a Recipe for A Forever War. Sanam Vakil quoted in Politico, 2/5
Why Trump's Gaza Plan is Being Slammed as Absurd. Laura Blumenfeld quoted in CBC News, 2/5
Trump's Gaza Plan. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by News Talk Radio CJAD 800, 2/5.
Trump Says US to 'Take Over' Gaza Strip. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by DW News, 2/5
American History is Key to Understanding Trump. Professor Emeritus Eliot Cohen wrote in The Atlantic, 2/4
Trump: 'The US Will Take Over the Gaza Strip'. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by BBC News, 2/4
Insistiranje na odgovornosti je početak borbe protiv populističkih politika. (Montenegrin) Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Arts in Global Policy Sinisa Vukovic quoted in Pobjeda, 2/3
Netanyahu's Visit to the White House. (Arabic) Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by BBC Arabic, 2/3
Will Trump's Gaza Proposal Sink or Save the Two-State Solution? Sanam Vakil quoted in Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, 2/3
The Path to a Transformed Middle East. Adjunct Lecturer David Makovsky wrote in Foreign Affairs, 2/3
Every President Has a Foreign Policy. Trump Has Five. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 2/3
Are America’s Four Main Adversaries Really in Cahoots? Vali Nasr quoted in Vox, 2/3
How a Train Station Tragedy Is Threatening to Bring Down A Hardline European President. Edward P. Joseph quoted in CNN World, 2/3
Trump's Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. Adjunct Lecturer and FPI Senior Fellow Jeffrey Pryce interviewed by LBC Radio, 2/2
Tariff Pe Tariff! After Targeting Foes, Trump to Turn Towards US' 'Really Out of Line' Ally European Union. Associate Professor Jonas Nahm quoted in The Economic Times, 2/2
Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order. Jonas Nahm quoted in The New York Times, 2/2
Palestinian Patients Cross into Egypt Via Rafah. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by DW News, 2/1
Trump and Netanyahu to Meet. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by BBC News, 1/31
Serbia Rocked by Anti-Corruption Protests After Construction Tragedy. Sinisa Vukovic quoted in Fox News, 1/31
Redefinicija spoljnopoliitčkih prioriteta: Kako će se kockice posložiti posle najnovijih odluka Trampove administracije? (Serbian) Sinisa Vukovic quoted in Euronews Serbia, 1/31
The US-China Rivalry Doesn’t Have to Be a Zero-Sum Game. David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies Jessica Chen Weiss interviewed in South China Morning Post, 1/30
Trump’s Transactional Foreign Policy Leads to Flurry of Pledges. Hal Brands quoted in Business Mirror, 1/30
Why Taiwan is Watching Greenland. Jessica Chen Weiss quoted in Politico, 1/30
U.S. Plane Collides with Military Helicopter. Edward P. Joseph interviewed by World Is One News, 1/30
Crypto Enters the Debanking Debate with a Weak Case. Henry Farrell quoted in Bloomberg, 1/29
Consequences for Trump's Executive Orders on the Western Balkans. (Bosnian) Sinisa Vukovic interviewed by Radiotelevision of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1/28
MSP Is Not Enough. Government Should Become Key Player in Markets to Relieve Farmer Distress. Assistant Professor International Economics Shoumitrou Chaterjee wrote in The Indian Express, 1/28
Iran Rethinks Confrontation with Donald Trump. Vali Nasr quoted in The Financial Times, 1/28
What Does the Resignation of Its Populist Prime Minister Mean for Serbia? Edward P. Joseph quoted in The Guardian, 1/28
Displaced Palestinians Return to Northern Gaza. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by BBC News, 1/27
Hamas Names Next Hostages to be Released. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed by BBC News, 1/24
STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE
Kosovo is Democratic But Complicated. FPI Senior Fellow Daniel Serwer wrote in dtt-net, 2/10
Lebanon’s New Government Leads to New, More Promising Phase. FPI Senior Fellow Randa Slim quoted in Al Arabiya, 2/9
Deepseek Disruption: How Far Will US Go to Keep Its Advanced AI Lead Over China? SAIS alumna '21 Bochen Han, 2/4
A Calamitous War Without End in Sudan. FPI Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the North Africa Initiative Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 2/1
Positivity Peaks at The Japan–China Summit. Policy Research Fellow of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies Haruka Satake wrote in East Asia Forum, 1/29
The Executive Order Halting Foreign Assistance—Making America and the World Less Safe, Weaker, and Poorer. SAIS alumna '11 Emilie Greenhalgh wrote in Newsweek, 1/29
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