In the News: December 8, 2022

‘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

• Warning From Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come. Senior Fellow of International Affairs at the SNF Agora Institute Anne Applebaum wrote in The Atlantic, 12/7

• Attacks on Russia Test the Limits of US-Ukraine Alliance. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs Hal Brands wrote in The Washington Post, 12/6 

• Meet The World’s Most Powerful Woman: Ursula Von Der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Associate Professor of International Political Economy Matthias Matthijs quoted in Forbes, 12/6  Sri Lanka’s Debt to China Close to 20% of Public External Debt - Study. The China-Africa Research Initiative quoted in Reuters, 12/5 

• Sri Lanka in Progressive Talks with China on Debt Restructuring, Submits All Details: Minister. The China-Africa Research Initiative quoted in The Daily Mirror, 12/3 

• The Current State of Russia-Ukraine War. Professorial Lecturer and Foreign Policy Institute Senior Fellow Jeffrey Pryce interviewed by Mega TV, 12/2 

• China’s Economic Recovery Dependent on ‘Calibrating’ Coronavirus Strategy, IMF Says. The China-Africa Research Initiative quoted in China Macro Economy, 12/2 

• The Pact Between Party and People is Broken. Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor of Political Economy Ho-Fung Hung quoted in DNYUZ, 12/1

• Why is Turkey About to Invade Syria? Assistant Professor of European and Eurasian Studies Lisel Hintz interviewed by UN Dispatch, 11/30   

• Putin is Doing Xi’s Dirty Work (and the West is Helping Him). Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Sergey Radchenko quoted in the Foreign Policy Research Institute blog, 11/29 

• Biden Needs a Reaganesque Approach to China. Hal Brands wrote in Bloomberg, 11/29

• China Covid Protests: Fury and Fear of Virus Puts Xi Jinping in a Bind. Ho-Fung Hung quoted in BBC News, 11/28

• China Eases Some COVID-19 Measures but Affirms Aero-Tolerance Strategy amid Anti-Lockdown Protests. Ho-Fung Hung quoted in Euronews, 11/28

• China's Xi Jinping Faces Calls to Step Down as Deadly Fire Sparks Unprecedented Protests over "Zero-COVID" Policy. Ho-Fung Hung quoted in CBS News, 11/28

• Ukraine’s Victories May Become a Problem for the US. Hal Brands wrote in The Washington Post, 11/27 

• How The Gipper Won. Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director Francis J. Gavin interviewed in War on the Rocks, 11/26

• Putin’s ‘Cold War Alliance’ Gets Frosty Reception in Armenia. Sergey Radchenko quoted in Politico, 11/23

• Argument Against More Aid to Ukraine is Woefully Shortsighted. Adjunct Professor Donald N. Jensen quoted in The Hill, 11/22

• The Impact of a Single Missile. Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies John E. McLaughlin quoted in The Cipher Brief, 11/21

• Ressusciter des Mammouths et le Gros Défaut du Projet de Loi Sur le Climat. Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment Jonas Nahm wrote in Les Actualites, 11/21

• A New Theory of American Power. Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies and Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs Mary Sarotte quoted in The Atlantic, 11/21 

• How NZ Helped to Shape Racist World Order. Assistant Professor of International Relations Nina Hall wrote in Samoa Observer, 11/19

• Forward Thinking on the Fragility of the World’s Food Systems and How to Fix Them with Jessica Fanzo. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director of the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program Jessica Fanzo interviewed by the Forward Thinking Podcast, 11/16

• What Iran’s Regime Learned From Its Own Revolution. James Anderson Adjunct Professor, and Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies Sanam Vakil quoted in CNN, 11/14

• State of the Region 2022-2023. Director of SAIS Europe, and Eni Professor of International Economics Michael G. Plummer wrote in the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

STUDENT, FELLOW & ALUMNI COVERAGE

• Reclaiming a Lost Half-Century in Libya. Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the North Africa Initiative at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in Arab News, 12/4 

• B-21 Raider: Russia and China’s New Stealth Bomber Nightmare? SAIS MA student '23 Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in 1945, 12/4 

• Neither Russia Nor Ukraine Can Control the Air Over Ukrainian Battlefields, But Their Aircraft Are Still Finding Ways to Operate. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Yahoo News, 12/3 

• Sanctions Are Freeing Iran. SAIS alumnus '20 Shay Khatiri wrote in The Dispatch, 12/1

• Five Factors to Watch as the Chinese Communist Party Faces Protests. SAIS alumna '18 Amanda Kerrigan wrote in The Rand Blog, 11/30 

• As Ukrainian Forces Recaptured a Key Town, Another Elite Russian Unit Appeared to Go through 'The Meat Grinder'. Stavros Atlamazoglou wrote in Yahoo News, 11/30How Long Can Algeria’s Neutrality in the Ukraine War Last? SAIS alumna '21 Emily Milliken wrote in Responsible Statecraft, 11/29 

• The Eight Billionth Question. Senior Fellow Afshin Molavi wrote in Asia Times, 11/28 

• Have Central Bank Interventions Repriced Corporate Credit? Part 1. SAIS alumnus '98 Steven Friedman wrote in CFA Institute Enterprising Investor, 11/28 

• COSCO’s Hamburg Terminal Acquisition: Lessons for Europe. SAIS alumnus '11 Jacob Gunter wrote in War on the Rocks, 11/28 

• Ackman’s Hong Kong Short Is Logical, Not Likely. SAIS alumna '11 Robyn Mak wrote in Reuters, 11/24 

• The False Promise of America’s CHIPS Act. Senior Fellow Anne Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 11/21 

• How Ukraine Can Win a War of Attrition Against Russia. Senior Fellow and SAIS doctoral student Alexander Vindman quoted in Task & Purpose, 11/21 

• NDIA Policy Points: The Precarious State of U.S. Defense Stockpiles. SAIS student '23 Chris Laudati wrote in National Defense, 11/18 

• Qué dice la nueva Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de Biden sobre América Latina. SAIS alumni Santiago Previde (MAIR '22) and Benjamin Fogel (MASCI '22) wrote in Infobae, 11/3 

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