In The News: May 18, 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

• Factbox: In Middle East, Once Improbable Ententes Set New Tone. Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies Vali Nasr quoted in Reuters, 5/18

• The West’s Erdoğan Headache Just Won’t Go Away. Assistant Professor of European and Eurasian Studies Lisel Hintz quoted in Politico, 5/16

• Türkiye’s Currency Tumbles as Runoff Election Looms for Presidential Hopefuls. Lisel Hintz interviewed on ABC News, 5/15

• Understanding the Internal Security Apparatus of India. Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies Devesh Kapur quoted in Hindustan Times, 5/15

• Erdogan’s Grip on Power Is Loosened but Not Broken, Vote Shows. Lisel Hintz quoted in The New York Times, 5/15

• How Investors Can Better Assess Risk to Impact. Adjunct Lecturer Neil Gregory wrote in ImpactAlpha, 5/15

• Breaking: Millions of Votes Being Counted in Turkey. Lisel Hintz interviewed on BBC News, 5/14

• The World This Weekend. Lisel Hintz interviewed on CBC News, 5/14

• Putin's Acolytes Can Smell Blood. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Sergey Radchenko wrote in The Spectator, 5/13

• Does Britain Still Need a Royal Family? Robert Abernethy Adjunct Professor Justin O. Frosini interviewed on Britain Unveiled, 5/12

• Wagner Boss Steps Up His Online Tantrum as Bakhmut Battle Rages. What Does It Mean? Sergey Radchenko quoted in CNN, 5/12

• Don’t Read This If You Have a Security Clearance. Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies and Professor of Strategic Studies Thomas Rid wrote in The Atlantic, 5/12

• 'Only a Few Percentage Points Separating’ Main Candidates in Turkiye Election. Lisel Hintz interviewed on ABC News, 5/10

• Chinese Company Now Owns Tutoring Firm Contracted by Military and Schools in U.S. Administrative Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies and Adjunct Lecturer Elly Rostoum quoted in The Wall Street Journal, 5/8

• As a Post-American Middle East Dawns, Iran and China Rush to Fill the Void. Vali Nasr quoted in The Washington Post, 5/8

• Expert Political Science That Illuminates All the News. Lisel Hintz interviewed by Monkey Cage Blog, 5/8

• Roles of U.S. "Japan Hands" in Flux Amid Rise of China Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies Kent Calder quoted in Kyodo News, 5/6

• EU Commission Presidency: Will Von Der Leyen Run Again? Academic Director of the Master of Arts in European Public Policy, Academic Director of the Master of Arts in Global Risk, and Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies Sir Michael Leigh quoted in Globe Echo, 5/6

• Turkey's Upcoming Election. Lisel Hintz interviewed on the BBC News, May 5

• Yellen Calls for 'Constructive' China Relationship. Assistant Professor of Political Economy Ling Chen quoted in the New York Times, 4/20

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• US Arrests Chinese-American on Charges of Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent for Beijing. SAIS alumna ’21 Bochen Han wrote in South China Morning Post, 5/16

• To Bet on China’s Shoppers, Ditch Its Companies. SAIS alumna ’11 Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 5/15

• The UN’s Response to the COVID-19 Infodemic. SAIS MA student '24 Gabriel Delsol wrote in International Peace Institute, 5/12

• Russia's Scramble to Find Microchips for its Weapons Hints at Struggles the US and China Could Face in a Future War. SAIS MA student ’23 Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Business Insider, 5/11

• How the Japan-South Korea Normalization Reshaped Both Countries. SAIS DIA Student '23 Shu Fukuya wrote in The Diplomat, 5/10

• Why Sudan’s Return to Civilian Rule Can’t be a Short-Term Project. SAIS alumna ’23 Ruth Namatovu wrote in Africa Up Close, 5/5

• After 35 Years in Flight, the US military says it's Done Buying One of Its Most Unique and Controversial Aircraft. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Business Insider, 5/5