In The News: June 1, 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

• No Comment. The Biden Administration Undermines Its Cause With Strategically Witless Statements. Robert E. Osgood Professor Eliot Cohen wrote for The Atlantic, 6/1

• Iran's Nuclear Program Marches Forward, 5 Years After the US Abandoned the Deal. Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies Vali Nasr interviewed by NPR, 5/30

• Following Victory, Erdogan Congratulated by An Array of World Leaders. Assistant Professor of European and Eurasian Studies Lisel Hintz quoted in The Washington Post, 5/29

• US Default? Instead of Hungering for Power and Party Control, U.S. Politicians Should Be Hungering for Solutions to the Economic Problems That Vex the Country. Adjunct Professor of International Law Arthur Appleton wrote in The Globalist, 5/27

• Erdogan’s Winning Formula. Adjunct Professor Ömer Taşpinar wrote in eKathimerini, 5/27

• What Germany Slipping Into Recession Means for Europe. Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies Dana Allin quoted in Firstpost, 5/26

• IMF Conference on Geoeconomic Fragmentation. Director of SAIS Europe and Eni Professor of International Economics Michael Plummer mentioned in IMF, 5/25

• Pro-Ukraine Border Raid Exposes Russian Defenses and Divisions. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Sergey Radchenko quoted in NBC News, 5/25 

• UAE Unlikely to Remove Oil CEO as COP28 Head Despite Western Protests. James Anderson Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies Sanam Vakil quoted in Al-Monitor, 5/24

• Arab Leaders Assert 'Strategic Sovereignty' Over Middle East Conflict in Pointed Message to West. Sanam Vakil quoted in South China Morning Post, 5/24

• South Korea Isn't Sure the US Has Its Back. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 5/23

• Opinion: At 100, Henry Kissinger is Still Teaching Us the Value of ‘Weltanschaüng.' Professor Emeritus Michael Mandelbaum quoted in CNN, 5/23

• Mercenary Prigozhin Lays Bare the Strains of Putin's War. Sergey Radchenko quoted in Reuters, 5/23

• Zelensky's Message to Arab Leaders to Get Off the Fence 'Does Not Necessarily Resonate', Says Analyst. Vali Nasr interviewed by CNN, 5/22

• The Grinding Battle for Bakhmut. Vali Nasr interviewed by Amanpour podcast, 5/22

• China, US Spar in the Geopolitical Coercion Game. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs Henry Farrell quoted in Bloomberg, 5/22

• The Underground History of Russia's Simplest Hacker Group. Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies and Professor of Strategic Studies Thomas Rid quoted in Cryptosaurus, 5/20

• Arab League's Saudi Summit Begins as Assad Returns. Sanam Vakil quoted in The National, 5/19

• Wagner Chief’s Attacks on Top Brass: Harbinger of Putin’s Weakness or Calculated Bet? Sergey Radchenko quoted in Alarabiya News, 5/19

• What the State Department Forgot to Say. Senior Fellow at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and Professional Lecturer in the Conflict Management Program Daniel Serwer wrote in Prishtina Insight, 5/19

• Ma Ying-jeou Goes to China to Set the KMT Platform. Adjunct Lecturer of China Studies David Keegan wrote in Global Taiwan Institute, 5/17

• Biden Will Find That Breaking Up With China Is Hard to Do. Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 5/16

• International Law's Role in a Strat-Dominated World. Arthur Appleton and Robert Abernethy Adjunct Professor Justin Frosini wrote in The SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs, May

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• If We Want to Counter China in the Indo-Pacific, We Have to Pay the Price. SAIS DIA student '25 Daniel J. Kurtenbach wrote in Top Stories, May 31

• 205,000 Dead And Wounded: How Many Russian Have Died In Ukraine? SAIS MA student ’23 Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in 1945, 5/28

• Europe's Strategic Negligence in the Mediterranean. Senior Fellow and Executive Director of North Africa Initiative Hafed Alghwell wrote in Arab News, May 27

• Applied Geopolitics: South Korea's Response to Shifting Geopolitical Balances. Ph.D. candidate and AWC Predoctoral Fellow Jaehan Park interviewed by RANE Podcast in Worldview, 5/26

• A World of Debt. Senior Fellow Anne Krueger wrote in Financial Advisor, 5/23

• Ukraine War: US at G7 Reveals Sanctions List Targeting Hundreds of Entities for Helping Russia’s Invasion. SAIS alumna ’21 Bochen Han wrote in South China Morning Post, 5/20

• The Next Global Scramble for Resources Will Hit Close to Home for Many of Us. Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the North Africa Initiative Hafed Al Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 5/20

• Asia Tech's Next Challenge is Resetting the Bar. SAIS alumna ’11 Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 5/19

• Report: How Youth Involvement, LP Performace in 2023 Polls Hurt Female Candidates. Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Lecturer Elor Nkereuwem quoted in The Cable, 5/18

• Putin Has A Problem: His Tanks Are Getting Slaughtered In Ukraine. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in 1945, 5/18