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Field Work: Bridget Mulkerin Helps Combat Food Insecurity
| by Stephen Diehl
The IEP candidate and Peace Corps alum is helping combat food insecurity through her International Professional Service Semester with the California nonprofit Valley Verde.
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Professor Moyara Ruehsen Previews Recommendations of Transatlantic Task Force Aimed at Combating Financial Crime
| by Jason Warburg
Financial Crime Management program head Professor Moyara Ruehsen serves on an international task force aimed at combating money laundering and other illicit methods of financing crime, terrorism, and weapons proliferation.
No Evidence Brooklyn Subway Shooting was a False Flag Operation
USA Today featured Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, who says there’s no evidence that the Brooklyn subway shooting was a false flag operation.
King’s College Professor Dissects Media Censorship in Russia and Belarus
| by Jarlath McGuckin
On April 26, Sam Greene, Professor of Russian politics and Director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London, discussed how citizens of authoritarian regimes respond to the restrictions placed by leaders on their ability to consume news.
Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies hosts Prof. Will Pyle
| by Jarlath McGuckin
On April 21, Middlebury College professor Will Pyle delivered the lecture, “Exiting Communism’s Enduring Effect on Russian Public Opinion” in McGowan Hall 100. He discussed the lasting effects of Russia’s dramatic exit from communism thirty years ago.
MIR Hosts Panel Discussion on the Role of Memory in the War in Ukraine
| by Mollie Messick MATESOL '21
Jade McGlynn, senior researcher at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, spoke with Ivan Krastev of the Center for Liberal Strategies and Michael Kimmage of Catholic University of America in a webinar titled “Prisoners of History? Memory, Myth-Making, and Russia’s War on Ukraine” on April 15.
Russia Isn’t Likely to Use Chemical Weapons in Ukraine–Unless Putin Grows Desperate
In an article for The Conversation, Professor and Program Chair of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Jeffrey William Knopf writes that Russia’s likelihood of using chemical weapons in Ukraine is low but not zero.
CNS Security Expert Gives TEDx Talk on Nuclear Weapons and the War in Ukraine
| by Jessie Raymond
Sarah Bidgood, director of the James Martin Center’s Eurasia Nonproliferation Program, discussed Russia’s escalating nuclear threat.
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Field Work: What TikTok Can Teach Us about War
| by Stephen Diehl
Middlebury Institute student researcher Tricia White has found TikTok a valuable tool for gathering open-source intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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