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If the Biden administration is serious about reviving arms control agreements with Russia and bringing China into the fold, it will need to compromise on the missile defenses it has built up over the past two decades, Middlebury Institute Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Professor Jeffrey Lewis argues in Foreign Affairs.
“The most radical QAnon believers exhibit traits that have manifested among dangerous cults and doomsday groups — a willingness to dismiss their own individuality for a perceived greater good.” Middlebury Institute Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism writes about the cult of Qanon and similarities to cults of the past in The Los Angeles Times.
“He’s a security guard. I work in nuclear security. The pandemic swept away my sense that we can really protect the ones we love from anything.” Middlebury Institute Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies alumna Lovely Umayam MANPTS ‘13 writes in the New York Times.
Washington doesn’t “have much of a window into what they are doing and they seem to have slowed down on a lot of things like minimizing their highly enriched uranium stocks,” - CNS Senior Fellow Miles Pomper quoted in widely published Reuters article on calls for Biden administration policy on global nuclear strategy.
In this deep dive into the future of ocean sustainability under new U.S. leadership by The Economist, Middlebury Institute International Environmental Policy Professor Jason Scorse, director of the Center for the Blue Economy shares his expertise and optimism that economic benefits of climate action might lead to bipartisan support.
“If Fakhrizadeh wanted Iran to build a bomb, his ‘martyrdom’ at the hands of a foreign power will make that outcome far more likely,” Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Professor and Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS Jeffrey Lewis tells Science Magazine.
“Parler’s fate will hinge on what its members do over the next few months,” Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism Research Lead and Middlebury Institute graduate Alex Newhouse MANPTS ‘18 writes about how the social media site Parler brings together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites and white supremacists for The Conversation.
A significant strategic shift is necessary is in the application of terrorism sanctions Professor Jason Blazakis, director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism argues in Foreign Policy.
Monday’s missile defense test—via an SM-3 Block IIA— by the US “makes it extremely hard to imagine limiting missile defenses in an arms control agreement,” Professor Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS tells Forbes.
Aram Shabanian MANPTS ´21, a graduate student of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies explains the significance of a music video in the latest conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in this article published by VICE.
