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Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) Director and Middlebury Institute professor Jason Blazakis recently spoke with RIA Novosti correspondent Grigory Dubovitsky on counterterrorism cooperation between the U.S. and the Russian Federation. Blazakis emphasized that cooperation on counterterrorism matters can help build trust and normalize relations between the two nations.
Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) Director and Middlebury Institute professor Jason Blazakis recently chatted with Chris Woodyard of USA Today about the recent Monsey, New York stabbing and White Settlement, Texas attack. He reiterated that now is the time for a domestic terrorism statute.
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies expert Jeffrey Lewis was quoted by Reuters for the New York Times’ article discussing Russia’s new hypersonic missiles. Lewis voiced his skepticism about the missiles being able to escape detection.
North Korea never halted efforts to build powerful new weapons, experts from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation told the Washington Post. “No one thinks they developed all these systems in a few months,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
“I think the U.S. failure to resolve the issue of North Korea’s nuclear challenge is having a corrosive effect, along with a lot of other things, on the core idea that the U.S. is the indispensable partner for Seoul and Tokyo,” Jeffrey Lewis, Middlebury Institute professor and arms control expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation tells TIME Magazine.
Middlebury Institute professor and Director of the Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) Jason Blazakis recently analyzed the implications of designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations in an op-ed for Defense One, calling it a “bad old idea”. “While adding the cartels to the FTO list makes for a good sound bite and will play well within the American electorate, a closer look at the implications paints a different picture.” said Blazakis.
Using virtual reality (VR) to show the possible impact of sea level rise and climate change on specific communities - using data to visually demonstrate scenarios and solutions - the work of Middlebury Institute Adjunct Faculty and Center for the Blue Economy Fellow Juliano Calil was featured on Morning Edition on NPR.
“We are getting to a point of no return” in the US-Turkey relationship, Deputy Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Jessica Varnum tells Peter Tilden of KABC Radio, discussing the ramifications of of US withdrawal from Syria and Ankara’s tightening ties to Moscow. She spoke with Tilden, drawing on her deep expertise on Turkey and the region in October and in November during President Erdogan’s White House visit.
In the absence of sanctions relief (or any progress at all on transforming US relations). North Korea “is going gangbusters” on its missile program, Professor Jeffrey Lewis, director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program tells NPR, regarding reports on North Korea’s imminent—and large—military aircraft show.
If Iran restarts enrichment at Fordow, it will be “relatively harder to reverse [course], since once nuclear material is fed into a centrifuge you cant do anything else with it other than enrichment,” Chen Kane, director of the CNS Middle East Nonproliferation program tells The Independent.
