In The News: January 5, 2024

‘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

• Blasts Near Soleimani's Grave Kill Scores in Iran. Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs Vali Nasr interviewed on CNN, 1/4

• The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust. Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies Thomas Rid quoted in The New York Times, 12/31

• The Most Anticipated Books of 2024. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe Sergey Radchenko quoted in Foreign Policy, 12/31 

• The Medicis of the Middle East? How the United Arab Emirates is Plotting Its Rise. James Anderson Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies at SAIS Europe Sanam Vakil wrote in Foreign Affairs, 12/29  

• What to Read in 2024. Sergey Radchenko quoted in The Financial Times, 12/28 

• Central Asia’s Gradual Economic Repositioning. Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Richard Pomfret wrote in The East Asia Forum, 12/27 

• The Best Books of 2023. Vali Nasr quoted in Foreign Affairs, 12/24 

• Harvard Has a Veritas Problem. Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies Eliot Cohen wrote in The Atlantic, 12/22

• Biden’s Foreign Policy Had a Rough 2023, and 2024 Looks Rougher. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 12/21 

• Gaza: Today and the Day After. Professor Emeritus William Zartman was interviewed on KALW Public Media, 12/21

• A Cold War Killing That Still Haunts Congo. Adjunct Lecturer Mvemba Phezo Dizolele wrote in Foreign Policy, 12/20 

• Opinion: U.S.-China Relations: Filoli Summit and Beyond. Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies Kent Calder wrote in Kyodo News, 12/20

• Strategic Outpost Brings You Santa’s 2023 National Security Gift List. Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow of the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies David Barno and Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow of the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Nora Bensahel wrote in War on the Rocks, 12/19 

• Give Russia’s Frozen Assets to Ukraine Now. Senior Fellow at SAIS and the SNF Agora Institute Anne Applebaum wrote in The Atlantic, 12/18 

• Counting Casualties in Israel's War on Gaza. Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies Sarah Parkinson interviewed on Abu Aardvark's Mena Academy, 12/16

• PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2023. Hal Brands quoted in Project Syndicate, 12/15 

• A Closer Look at the Gaza Casualty Data. Sarah Parkinson wrote in Good Authority, 12/14 

• The Best Books of 2023, as Chosen by the Economist. Professor of Practice Yascha Mounk quoted in The Economist, 12/1 

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• Nordkoreansk "comeback" förbryllar fotbollen. (Swedish) FPI Fellow Niklas Swanström quoted in Omni, 12/29

• Climate Change: Time for Middle East to Seize the Day. FPI Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the North Africa Initiative Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in The Arab News, 12/26

• Houthi Shipping Attacks Threaten Global Economy. FPI Senior Fellow Afshin Molavi wrote in The Asia Times, 12/21

• Errors Found in Key Database Tacking Foreign Influence in U.S. Politics. SAIS alumnus '04 Michael Walsh quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle, 12/20 

• The Coming Debt Crisis. FPI Senior Fellow Anne Krueger wrote in Jordan Vista, 12/20 

• What Are Taiwan’s Presidential Candidates Saying About Defense? SAIS MA student '25 Brian Gray wrote for the German Marshall Fund, 12/18 

• FBI Chief in India Following Explosive US Assassination Plot indictment. FPI Senior Fellow Daniel Markey quoted in CNN, 12/12 

• India’s Aim to Surpass China as Global South Leader Unaffected by its Support for Israel. Daniel Markey quoted in the South China Morning Post, 12/7 

• Science Diplomacy and the Ecological Implications of the South China Sea. FPI Senior Fellow James Borton interviewed on Asia Unscripted podcast, 12/5 

• 'US-India initiatives will face new scrutiny.'  Daniel Markey quoted in Rediff News, 12/5 

• Texte des Jahres 2023. (German) FPI Senior Fellow Daniel S. Hamilton quoted in Internationale Politik, 12/5 

• Has US Revealed a Smoking Gun That's Pointing at Modi Govt? Daniel Markey interviewed on The Wire, 12/1  

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