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| by Jason Scorse; David Helvarg
“Ocean climate action such as this is critically overdue,” Middlebury Institute Professor Jason Scorse, director of the Center for the Blue Economy and Blue Frontier’s David Helvarg make the case for their new ambitious Ocean Climate Action Plan in an op-ed in The Hill today.
| by CTEC Staff
| by CTEC
MIIS Professor and CTEC Director Jason Blazakis co-wrote an article for Slate Magazine with Carnegie Mellon University Professor Colin Clarke regarding the issue of Trump’s possible designation of ANTIFA as a terrorist group. The bottom line - President Trump doesn’t have the legal tools to sanction the ANTIFA movement as a terrorist entity. Second, ANTIFA isn’t a group - it is a loose collection of individuals that form a movement. More at: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/antifa-terrorist-organization-designation-trump.html
| by CTEC
Prof. of Practice and CTEC Director Jason Blazakis publishes new piece with Lawfare on the consequences of a recent State Department decision related to Cuba and Venezuela.
| by NPR
Professor Jeffrey Lewis shares his thoughts with NPR on historical parellels to the current tensions between U.S. intelligence community and the administration on theories about the origins of COVID-19.
| by United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
The United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) features two Middlebury Institute students, Yury Medvedev MANPTS/MGIMO ‘20 and Vladislav Chernavskikh MANPTS/MGIMO ‘20 in the dual degree Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies with Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). They are both currently working as interns at UNODA, fulfilling degree requirements.
“If they were going for a body count, they went the wrong way about it,” David Schmerler, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation (CNS) told the Los Angeles Times.
NPR consulted expert analysis from Senior Research Associate David Schmerler regarding the Iran missile attack at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation (CNS). After reviewing the footage, Schmerler remarked that “some of the locations struck look like the missiles hit dead center.”
The Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counter-terrorism (CTEC) Director Jason Blazakis discussed the use of social media by President Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif with the Washington Post, and its result of de-escalating overt military action last week, after the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing U.S. and Coalition forces.
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) expert Jeffrey Lewis discussed US nuclear policy with Business Insider, saying, “In any other circumstance, I would have argued that the norm against using nuclear weapons is so strong there’s no chance that a president would use a nuclear weapon. At the end of the day, though, it’s just a norm. And this president delights in smashing norms.”
