Institute affiliate Gregory Mitrovich has a new article in the South China Morning Post, “How China and the US can avoid going to war, as tensions rise over Xi Jinping’s naval ambitions,” published on September 21, 2019. For the full article, click here.
In a September, 11, 2019 event, Jesse Morton, a former Islamist activist and leader of Revolution Muslim who was based in New York, Mitch Silber, the former director of Intelligence Analysis at the NYPD and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and Public Policy at SIPA and Stuart Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and Public Policy at SIPA, […]
Institute member Jason Healey was featured in a report on US sanctions on three groups tied to the Korean government, aired on September 13, 2019 on The Situation Room on CNN. To see the full clip, click here.
Institute affiliate Erica Borghard and Shawn Lonergan have an article in the Fall 2019 issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly, entitled, “Cyber Operations as Imperfect Tools of Escalation.” In the article they posit that cyber escalation has not occurred because cyber operations are poor tools of escalation, and that this stems from key characteristics of offensive […]
Jason Healey has a new blog post, “Five Jeez: Five Security Arguments Against Huawei 5G,” published on the Council on Foreign Relations website on September 4, 2019. For the full post, click here.
Lisa Anderson has joined the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies as a resident member. Anderson is James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations; Dean Emerita of the School of International and Public Affairs; and Special Lecturer in International and Public Affairs. She is a specialist on politics in the Middle East and […]
Saltzman Institute resident Member Keren Yarhi-Milo has won the American Political Science Association’s Foreign Policy Section Book Award for “Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict,” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018). On August 30, 2019, she will be presented with her award and a monetary prize during APSA’s General Meeting […]
On August 2, 2019, Stephen Sestanovich had an opinion piece in the New York Times online entitled, “Is Putin Burning Out?” Sestanovich posits that the demonstrations of recent weeks may push Putin to make mistakes that test his grip on power.
Kimberly Marten (Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Barnard College) published “Russia’s Use of Semi-state Security Forces: The Case of the Wagner Group” in Post-Soviet Affairs. This is the definitive history of the Wagner Group, using high-quality, primarily Russian-language, well documented sources. It explains how Putin’s patronage politics makes Wagner’s illegality a necessity. It also discusses how Wagner […]
Mark Hannah and Stephen Wertheim published an essay in The Guardian on July 1, 2019. “Here’s One Way the Democrats Can Defeat Trump: Be Radically Anti-War“, argues that Democrats have an opportunity to win votes from Trump on foreign policy, but only if they choose a clear line of attack. They propose that Democratic candidates offer […]
