In The News: May 29, 2024

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FACULTY U.S. & INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

• What Raisi’s Death Means for the Future of Iran. Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs Vali Nasr quoted in The New Yorker, 5/21  

• Vuković: Amandmani Su Pomirili Pes Sa Rezolucijom, Nijesu Pomirili Cg Sa Rezolucijom. (Montenegrin) Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Arts in Global Policy Sinisa Vukovic interviewed in Antena M, 5/20   

• What Exactly Are We Doing? Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs Francis Gavin wrote in War on The Rocks, 5/20  

• No Signal From Helicopter That Crashed Killing Iran’s President,Turkish Minister Says. Vali Nasr quoted in The Guardian, 5/20 

• Chatham House's Sanam Vakil Discusses Iran President Death. James Anderson Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies at SAIS Europe Sanam Vakil interviewed on Bloomberg Radio, 5/20  

• Death of Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi to Intensify Supreme Leader Succession Battle Among Hardline Factions. Vali Nasr quoted in The South China Morning Post, 5/20  

• Iran's President Raisi Killed in Helicopter Crash. Sanam Vakil quoted on CNN, 5/20  

• No Signal From Helicopter That Crashed Killing Iran’s President, Turkish Minister Says. Vali Nasr quoted in The Guardian, 5/20

• Putting the Cold War on the Couch. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe Sergey Radchenko quoted in Foreign Policy, 5/19   

• Biden Can’t Pay His Way Out of Fighting Cold War II. Sergey Radchenko quoted in Bloomberg, 5/19  

• Guido Sandleris: “Veo Una Recuperación Más Lenta, No Una Fuerte Reactivación." (Spanish) Professor of Practice at SAIS Europe Guido Sandleris quoted in La Nacion, 5/19   

• To Run the World — Moscow’s Quest for Power and Parity With the U.S. Sanam Vakil quoted in Financial Times, 5/18  

• Zelensky’s Controversial Measure to Get More Troops That Could Put His Popularity in Check. Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs at SAIS Europe Eugene Finkel quoted in Euro.ESEuro, 5/18  

• Xi and Putin Mark ‘New Era’ Amid Efforts to Counter U.S. ‘Containment.' Sergey Radchenko quoted in The Japan Times, 5/17 

• The Space Race. Adjunct Assistant Professor Svelta Ben-Itzhak interviewed on DW's The Day with Brent Groff, 5/17

• Blinken Ends Ukraine Trip With Promise of U.S. Help as Russia Goes Back on Offensive. Sergey Radchenko interviewed on NPR, 5/15

• US Warned Against ‘Full Support’ for India If It Attacks Pakistan. Professor of Practice Joshua White quoted in Dawn, 5/15

• U.S. Lawmakers to Introduce Legislation to Formalise Indian Ocean Strategy. Joshua White quoted in The Hindu, 5/15

• Why Iran and Israel Stepped Back From the Brink. Vali Nasr wrote in Foreign Affairs, 5/14

• Challenges to Georgia’s EU Integration: Is the Georgian ‘Russian Law 2.0’ Contrary to the Georgian Constitution? Robert Abernethy Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Justin Frosini wrote in Verfassungsblog, 5/13  

• Can Israel Stand Alone Without Weapons Deliveries From the U.S? Senior Fellow of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on DW News, 5/13  

• US-Israel Dysfunction: Borderline Diplomacy Disorder. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on the BBC, 5/13  

• Israel Sending Delegation to Indirect Talks. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on the BBC, 5/13  

• Foxhole Fight: Biden vs Bibi. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on Sky News, 5/13

• The Awfulness of War Can’t Be Avoided. Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies Eliot Cohen wrote in The Atlantic, 5/12 

• Ukraine Is Now a World War. And Putin Is Gaining Friends. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 5/12 

• Vuković: Diplomatija Je Zarobljena U Sopstvenim Obmanama Samo Da Se Dodvori Beogradu. (Montenegrin) Sinisa Vukovic interviewed in Pobjeda, 5/12  

• Bised Me Sinisha Vukoviç, Profesor Në Universitetin Johns Hopknis 10.05.2024. (Albanian) Sinisa Vukovic interviewed on RTK, 5/10 

• Brasile: Lula Propone, La Cine Dispone. (Spanish) Adjunct Professor and Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe Alessandro Merli wrote in ISPI Online, 5/9  

• 'Israel Sticks to Hard Line, Despite U.S. Objections.' Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on DW, 5/9

• Why Counterterrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan Still Matters. Joshua White wrote in the US Institute for Peace blog, 5/9 

• The New ‘Space Race’: What Are China’s Ambitions And Why Is the US So Concerned? Svelta Ben-Itzhak quoted in The Guardian, 5/4

• Nueva Propuesta Israeli de Cese El Fuego Acerca Posibilidad de Tregua En La Guerra de Gaza. (Spanish) Laura Blumenfeld quoted in El Mercurio, 4/30  

• The Crisis in World Trade Law: How the Dust Is Settling. Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Richard Pomfret wrote in The SAIS Review of International Affairs, Winter-Spring 2024  

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• U.S. Government Gave Over $1.5 Million to Nonprofit With Ties To Palestinian Pro-Terror Universities. SAIS alumna ’23 Naomi Grant wrote in The Federalist, 5/21 

• Europe’s Missed Opportunity in Tunisia. FPI Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the North Africa Initiative Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 5/18

• Can We Finally Agree That UN’s Libya Mission Is Not Working? Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 5/12

• Wanted in the South China Sea: More Marine Peace Parks. FPI Senior Fellow James Borton wrote in the South China Morning Post, 5/11

• Infrastructure Is Remaking Geopolitics. Postdoctoral Fellow Mary Bridges wrote in Foreign Affairs, 5/10

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