The Institute’s Joshua Pollack recently wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post about the possible ramifications of imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
The senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies notes that although a no-fly zone might help Ukraine, President Biden’s position ruling out directly attacking Russian forces in Ukraine is necessary as an armed conflict courts nuclear exchange. As Pollack states, “If we are to safeguard the values of free societies, those societies must continue to exist. The best response to Putin’s reckless gamble with Russia’s fortunes isn’t an even more reckless gamble of our own.”
MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
Middlebury Institute James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Dr. Philipp Bleek, professor of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies, was recently interviewed by Fox Business about the potential consequences of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Sarah Bidgood MANPTS ’16, director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, recently penned a Foreign Policy article about the implications of the war in Ukraine on nuclear arms control.
Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, wrote an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times and The Mercury News, in addition to providing an interview for MSNBC, about the option of adding Russia to the U.S. government’s state sponsors of terrorism list.
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