In The News: August 15, 2024
‘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
Ukraine Turns the Tables on Russia. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Sergey Radchenko quoted in The Washington Post, 8/14
Chances of Mideast Cease-Fire Are Slim. James Anderson Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe Sanam Vakil interviewed on Bloomberg TV, 8/14
White House Projects Confidence on Gaza Cease-fire Talks. Senior Fellow of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Laura Blumenfeld quoted in Voice of America, 8/14
It's Been a Week Since Ukrainian Troops Launched an Attack in Russian Territory. Sergey Radchenko interviewed on NPR, 8/13
Šta su glavne poruke Maskovog intervjua sa Trampom? Ostvarili su neke ciljeve, ali se problemi ne mogu ignorisati. (Serbian) Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Arts in Global Policy Sinisa Vukovic interviewed on Euronews Serbia, 8/13
Putin Must Explain How His War Allowed Russia to Be Invaded. Sergey Radchenko wrote in The Guardian, 8/13
Analysts Say Ceasefire Deal Could Prevent Israel-Iran Conflict. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on ABC, 8/13
News Outlets Were Leaked Insider Material From the Trump Campaign. They Chose Not to Print It. Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies Thomas Rid quoted in ABC News, 8/13
SpaceX’s Elon Musk Endorsed Donald Trump for President – What This Could Mean for U.S. Space Policy. Adjunct Assistant Professor Svetla Ben-Itzhak wrote in The Conversation, 8/13
FBI Is Investigating Suspected Iranian Hack Attempts Against Trump and Biden Campaigns. Thomas Rid quoted in the Wall Street Journal, 8/12
Why Iran Has Not Yet Retaliated Against Israel for Hamas Leader's Killing. Sanam Vakil quoted in The New York Times, 8/12
Israel Strike on School Kills more than 90 Civilians, Gaza Civil Defense Says. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on Newsday, 8/12
Dictators United: How Authoritarian States Work Together to Thwart Democracy. Senior Fellow at SAIS and the SNF Agora Institute Anne Applebaum interviewed on The Hub, 8/11
Israel Strikes School Complex in Gaza. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on DW, 8/11
Trump Campaign Says It Is Victim of Foreign Hack After Leak of Vance Report. Thomas Rid quoted in The Washington Post, 8/10
NASA Asteroid-Hunting Telescope to Burn Up in Atmosphere. Svetla Ben-Itzhak quoted in Newsweek, 8/9
U.S. Pressures Iran and Hezbollah. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on BBC Arabic, 8/8
How to Fix the Secret Service Before It Fails Again. Professor Emeritus Eliot Cohen wrote in The Atlantic, 8/8
Americans Need to Understand We’re Living in a New Era of Global Threats. Professor of Practice John McLaughlin wrote in the Cipher Brief, 8/8
The Smartest Conversation on Cyber in the Defense Department You’ve Heard in a Long Time. Lecturer Melissa Griffith wrote in War on the Rocks, 8/7
U.S. Insists Gaza Cease-fire Talks in Final Stage as Region Braces for Wider War. Laura Blumenfeld quoted in Voice of America, 8/7
Is Blood Thicker Than Liquidity? Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on DW News, 8/7
Mogući napad Irana na Izrael | Kontekst. (Bosnian) Sinisa Vukovic interviewed on Al Jazeera Balkans, 8/6
Israel on the Brink. Eliot Cohen wrote in The Atlantic, 8/6
Middle East Madness or Crazy Like a Fox. Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on BBC Arabic, 8/4
Netanyahu, Defiant, Appears to Have Gone Rogue, Risking a Regional War. Sanam Vakil quoted in The New York Times, 8/4
Iran-Israel: "An Appointment with Death?" Laura Blumenfeld interviewed on BBC News, 8/4
Time is Running Out to Pull Back Middle East from All-Out War. Sanam Vakil quoted in The National, 8/4
Israël staat tegenover de zwaarst bewapende guerrillagroep ter wereld: wat is Hezbollah? (Dutch) Aronson Associate Professor Sarah Parkinson quoted in Demorgen, 8/3
A Foreign Policy 'October Surprise' Now Hangs Over U.S. Election. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 8/1
On GPS: Why 'There are Very Few Winners' in the Middle East Escalation. Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs Vali Nasr interviewed on CNN, 8/4
Iran Calls for Revenge at Funeral of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh. Vali Nasr quoted in RFI, 8/1
How Hamas and Iran Will Respond to the Assassinations of Top Hamas Leaders. Vali Nasr interviewed in Politico, 8/1
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy: Lazy Political Cliches Neatly Upturned. C. Grove Haines Professor of History and International Studies Mark Gilbert quoted in Irish Times, 7/29
STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE
Apple Begins Delicate Dance with Tencent in China. SAIS alumna '11 Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 8/15
Eine Frage der Sicherheit. (German) FPI Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the North Africa Initiative Hafed Al-Ghwell quoted in Allgemeine Zeitung, 8/14
Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense. SAIS alumnus '24 Shaan Shaikh wrote in War on the Rocks, 8/12
The Rise of Clan Haftar: Is Western Myopia in Libya Creating a Far Worse Version of Gaddafi? Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Euro News, 8/8
U.S. First, China Second-to-last and US $100,000 Between Them in G20 Diplomatic Pay Rankings. SAIS alumna '21 Bochen Han wrote in South China Morning Post, 8/7
Israel and Ukraine Are on the Same Side. SAIS students: Anthony De Luca-Baratta, William Erich Ellison, Joseph Schneider Malamud, and Mollie Sharfman wrote in The National Interest, 8/2
Donald Trump's Invitation to Chinese Carmakers Might Boost US Transition to EVs. Bochen Han wrote in South China Morning Post, 8/2
Israel Targets Hezbollah Leader in Beirut Strike. FPI Senior Fellow Randa Slim interviewed on PBS, 7/30
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