In The News: August 4, 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

• Strategic Outpost Goes To The Movies. Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow David Barno and Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies and Senior Fellow of the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Nora Bensahel wrote in War on the Rocks, 8/3

• Authoritarianism Threatens a Nobel Winner. Adjunct Professor Patrick Pexton wrote in The Hill, 8/2

• China's Top Diplomat Wang Yi is Best Hope for Making Xi-Biden Meeting Happen, Analysts Say. Resident Professor of International Politics David Arase quoted in Yahoo Finance, 8/2

• The United States, Iran, and The Lessons of The Last War. Professor Emeritus Michael Mandelbaum wrote in the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, 7/31

• The Week in Russia: Mud, Blood, and an 'Empire of Spite.' Kenneth H Keller Professor of International Affairs Eugene Finkel quoted in Radio Free Europe, 7/28

• What's Happening on The Battlefield? Roger Hertog Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Eric Edelman and Robert E. Osgood Professor Eliot Cohen interviewed on Bulwark podcast, 7/28

• China's Use of Exit Bans Leaves Americans at Risk of Being Arbitrarily Detained. Professor Emeritus of China Studies David Lampton quoted in NBC News, 7/27

• Vladimir Putin Is Still Useful to Xi Jingping. Until He Isn't. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Sergey Radchenko wrote in the New York Times, 7/24

• The Power of Smaller Countries. Lecturer of Risk in International Politics Veronica Anghel wrote in Eurozine, 7/24

• It's Not Just the Fed. Central Banks Around the World Are Meeting This Week. Associate Professor of International Political Economy Matthias Matthijs quoted in Market Place, 7/24

• US, China Seek Thaw on Climate as World Broils Under Extreme Heat. Professor Emeritus of China Studies and Senior Research Fellow at FPI David Lampton quoted in Bloomberg, 7/18

• Change Maker Chat, Digital Age. Assistant Professor of International Relations Nina Hall interviewed on Change Makers Podcast, 7/18

• USA-Cina, Yellen arriva a Pechino mentre va avanti la guerra fredda dei chip. (Italian) Eni Professor of International Economics Michael Plummer interviewed on CNBC, 7/18

• Impact Assessment of the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Michael Plummer wrote for UK Government, 7/17

• Iran's 'Morality Police' Are Again Enforcing the Country's Strict Dress Code. The James Anderson Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies Sanam Vakil interviewed on NPR, 7/17

• Iran's Morality Police Resume Hijab Patrols After Reprieve During Protests. Sanam Vakil quoted in the Washington Post, 7/17

• The Consequences of Inter-State Trade Liberalization for Indian Farmers. Assistant Professor of International Economics Shoumitro Chatterjee wrote in VoxDev, 7/17 

• U.S., Japan and Australia Can Aid Taiwan With Words, Not War. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 7/17

• Absence of Violence is Not the Absence of Fear. Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies Devesh Kapur interviewed on Business Standard, 7/16

• Hong Kong’s Leader Casts a Wide Net in Hunt for Pro-democracy ‘Street Rats.' Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor of Political Economy Ho-Fung Hung quoted in the Financial Times, 7/15

• Kremlin-Aligned Group Denounces Russian Nuclear Threats, State TV Rhetoric. Sergey Radchenko quoted in Newsweek, 7/15

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• South Korea Rematch with Elilott is a Lose-lose. SAIS alumna '11 Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 8/2

• Fast-fashion Wars Are Warmup for Amazon Battle. Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 8/1

• Descent into illiberalism Threatens Libya's Post-conflict Prospects. Senior FPI Fellow and Senior FPI Fellow and Executive Director of North Africa Initiative Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 8/1

• Experts' Take: Most of the World's Women and Girls Struggle With Large Gaps in Equality And Empowerment. SAIS alumna '2007 Ginette Azcona wrote in UN Women Report, 7/28

• Chinese AI Arrives By Stealth, Not With a Bang. Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 7/27

• US House Passes Bill to Hold Chinese Officials Accountable for Spread of Fentanyl. SAIS alumna '21 Bochen Han wrote in South China Morning, 7/26

• China's Crackdown on IPO Risk Factors Is a Warning. Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 7/26

• A Clean-energy Future May Depend on Seabed Mining. Senior FPI Fellow James Borton wrote in The Hill, 7/25

• Air Forces Are Ditching Runways to Prepare Their Jets to Keep Operating When Enemies Aim for Their Bases. SAIS alum ’23 Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Yahoo, 7/19

• Why Is America Undercutting Japan? Senior Fellow Anne Krueger wrote in Business Times, 7/24

• The Urgent Need for Ethanol Cooking in Africa. SAIS alum '1979 Douglas Faulkner wrote in Biofuels Digest, 7/9