In The News: November 30, 2023

‘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

• Israel Needs to Choose Between Release of Hostages, Destruction of Hamas as Both Aims ‘Incompatible’: Experts. Senior Fellow of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Laura Blumenfeld quoted in Channel News Asia, 11/28

• Daily Cuts - Two Day Extension Of Israel-Hamas Truce Sparks Hope. Laura Blumenfeld quoted in Channel News Asia, 11/28 

• Small ‘Hot’ Wars Will Define Cold War II. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 11/27

• Israeli Media: 13 Israeli Hostages Have Been Released. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on Sky News, 11/27

• The Rise of Populism and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. Professor of Practice of International Affairs Yascha Mounk interviewed on NPR, 11/24

• Binance and the End of Crypto’s Dream to Escape From Government. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs Henry Farrell wrote in the Wall Street Journal, 11/24

• Global News Canada Interviews Johns Hopkins Middle East Analyst Laura Blumenfeld on Hostage Release. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on Global News Canada, 11/24

• How United Are Arab and Muslim Leaders on Gaza? James Anderson Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies at SAIS Europe Sanam Vakil interviewed on the Financial Times Rachman Review Podcast, 11/23 

• There Shall Be None to Make Him Afraid. Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies Eliot Cohen wrote in The Atlantic, 11/23

• Hamas-Israel: Qatar's Foreign Policy Balancing Act Pays Off. Sanam Vakil quoted in Deutche Well, 11/22

• Hydrogen Storage in Depleted Offshore Gas Fields in Brazil: Potential and Implications For Energy Security. Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Bob van der Zwaan wrote in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 11/22

• The Unlikely Alliance That Could Shape Argentina’s Radical New Leadership. Professor of Practice at SAIS Europe Guido Sandleris quoted in The Financial Times, 11/22 

• How OpenAI Is Testing Tech’s Shibboleths. Henry Farrell quoted in Axios, 11/22 

• The Warfare of Starvation. Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies Sarah Parkinson quoted in Responsible Statecraft, 11/22 

• US Playing Key Role in Israel-Hamas Hostage Talks. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on Global News, 11/21  

• Argentina Elects Outsider Javier Milei on Platform of Radical Reform. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research Filipe Campante quoted in Al Jazeera, 11/20 

• La Guerra En Gaza Enfurece A Los Países Árabes, Pero No Tanto Como Pensábamos. (Spanish) Laura Blumenfeld quoted in El Confidencial, 11/20 

• Happy Thanksgiving, Hermit Billionaires! Yascha Mounk quoted in The New York Times, 11/20 

• The War That Remade the Middle East. Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs Vali Nasr wrote in Foreign Affairs, 11/20 

• Indonesia in Global Economic Map: Reflection from APEC Leaders’ Week in San Francisco. Eni Professor of International Economics at SAIS Europe Michael Plummer quoted in Jakarta Globe, 11/19 

• Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet Shuffle Won’t Fix the UK’s Tories’ Problems. Dean Acheson Associate Professor of International Political Economy Matthew Matthijs quoted in Vox, 11/19 

• What Could Peace Look Like for Israel and Palestine? Sanam Vakil interviewed on Monocle Radio, 11/18

• No Significant Pause In Gaza Before Israeli Hostages Freed, Says US. Adjunct Lecturer and Senior FPI Fellow Edward Joseph interviewed on World Is One News, 11/18 

• Biden-Xi Summit Won’t Save a Declining Relationship. Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 11/16 

• Live Fast, Die Young: Romanian Coalitions in Times of Crisis. Lecturer at SAIS Europe Veronica Anghel wrote in Taylor & Francis, 11/16

• The Hamas Big Fish Who Got Away. Laura Blumenfeld wrote in The Wall Street Journal,  11/16

• Opinion: The Slaughter of Civilians in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza Shows Us a New Age of Mass Violence. The Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs at SAIS Europe Eugene Finkel wrote in The Los Angeles Times, 11/16

• Post-Colonial Practices Continue to Structure European Security Assistance. Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Simone Tholens wrote in the London School of Economics' EUROPP blog, 11/16

• History as It Happens: Russia in the Middle East. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe Sergey Radchenko interviewed in the Washington Times, 11/15

• Nga Ukraina Në Gaza, Si Po Përhapen Luftërat Në Botë. (Albanian) Sergey Radchenko quoted in KOHA, 11/15 

• How the Biden-Xi meeting in San Francisco is Seen in Germany. Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Hanns Maull quoted in Deutsche Welle, 11/14 

• Sem Guerra Fria: China e EUA é disputa capitalista, diz pesquisador chinês. (Portuguese) Henry M. and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy Ho-Fung Hung quoted in Universo Online, 11/14 

• The Ghosts of Lebanon. Sarah Parkinson wrote in Foreign Affairs, 11/14 

• Arab And Muslim Leaders Meet To Condemn Israeli Aggression in Gaza. Sanam Vakil interviewed on NPR, 11/13 

• From Gaza To Ukraine, Wars And Crises Are Piling Up. Sergey Radchenko quoted in The Economist, 11/13 

• What Will Be the Bestsellers In the Coming Year? Eugene Finkel quoted in The Economist, 11/13

• How the USSR Tried to Run the World. Sergey Radchenko interviewed on Meduza, 11/10 

• US Back as Zionists’ Unequivocal Defender After Hamas Attacks. Laura Blumenfeld quoted in Kuwait Times, 11/10

• イスラエル、戦闘4時間休止も課題　ガザ最大病院に攻撃. (Japanese) Sarah Parkinson quoted in Nikkei, 11/10 

• La Gran Pregunta De La Guerra En Gaza: ¿Qué Es Una "Victoria" Para Israel? (Spanish) Laura Blumenfeld quoted in El Confidencial, 11/9 

• Flashpoint Iran: Iran’s Long Game in Coordinating with Hamas, Hezbollah as they Battle Israel. Sanam Vakil quoted in Voice of America, 11/7

• DW News Interviews Middle East Analyst Laura Blumenfeld about Secretary Blinken's Diplomatic Mission. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on DW News, 11/7

• Blinken's Effort to Prevent Escalation of Tensions in Middle East a "Tall Order," But US Still Holds Sway: Experts. Laura Blumenfeld quoted in Channel News China, 11/3

• Lagarde: De ‘Paloma’ A ‘Halcòn’ En Medio Mandato. (Spanish) Adjunct Professor and Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe Alessandro Merli quoted in El Pais, 11/2

• The Role of Trade in Asia and the Pacific’s Net Zero Pathways: Overview and Policy Implications. Michael G. Plummer wrote in the ADB Briefs, 11/1

• "Wars Without Gun Smoke": Global Supply Chains, Power Transitions, and Economic Statecraft. Assistant Professor Ling Chen wrote in International Security Journal, 10/1

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• Vietnam Eyes Lifting of the EU ‘Yellow Card.’ FPI Senior Fellow James Borton wrote in Geopolitical Monitor, 11/27

• EU is Doubling Down on Failed Migration Policies. FPI Senior Fellow and Executive Director of North Africa Initiative Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 11/25

• How Climate Change Endangers Global Trade. Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 11/22

• Now's The Time For Japan to Join AUKUS. SAIS PhD student '28 Rena Sasaki wrote in the Asia Times, 11/22 

• With Job Cuts and Drug Tests, the Pentagon Hopes to Prepare Its Special-Ops Forces for a New Era Oo Warfare. SAIS alumnus ’23 Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in the Business Insider, 11/21 

• AI Helps Uncover Russian State-Sponsored Disinformation in Hungary. SAIS PhD students '24 Benjamin Novak and Martin Wendiggensen quoted in Dark Reading, 11/20

• Crna Gora je s ovim rukovodstvom ,,srpski satelit“ i lak plijen Kremlja. (Montenegrin) Senior Fellow at FPI Michael Haltzel quoted in Pobjeda, 11/20

• The Risks to India’s Rise. Senior Fellow Anne Kreuger wrote in Project Syndicate, 11/20 

• Sudan: Strong African Mediation Needs To End Disastrous Conflict. SAIS PhD alumna '23 Ruth Esther Namatovu interviewed in All Africa, 11/19 

• Op/Ed: EU’s ASM draft: the Good, the Bad and the Unwritten. Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations Daniel Serwer wrote in Tirana Times, 11/15 

• If You Really Cared About the Palestinians. SAIS MA student '23 Naomi Grant wrote in Jewish News Syndicate, 11/15 

• Russia’s Plans for Libya Could Shift Regional Power Balance. Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 11/15 

• For Years, Israel Has Denied That the International Criminal Court Has Jurisdiction Over the Jewish State. After the Hamas Attack, That Changed. SAIS DIA student Yousef Bashir wrote in the Forward, 11/15

• Can America Win Over the World’s Middle Powers? Senior Fellow at FPI Daniel Hamilton wrote in Foreign Affairs, 11/14

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