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Middlebury Institute researcher Joshua Pollack wrote an opinion piece about why America’s decision to refrain from imposing a no-fly zone in Ukraine is necessary to avoid catastrophic escalation.
Graduate Research Assistant Steven De La Fuente spoke with the New York Times about his analysis of new radar satellite imagery from western Ukraine showing an attack on an airport.
Veteran New York Times national security reporter Thom Shanker, who studied Russian at the Institute, traces key moments of the past decades.
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In an article for Foreign Policy, Dr. Jade McGlynn, director of the Institute’s Monterey Trialogue Initiative, writes about how Putin’s war messaging mirrors the justifications given by NATO leaders for bombing Yugoslavia.
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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Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and a team of students noticed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Google Maps hours before it was officially announced, the Washington Post reports.
In a San Francisco Chronicle opinion article, Jason Scorse, director of the Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy and David Helvarg, executive director of Blue Frontier, argue that sanctioning Russia’s oil and natural gas exports is crucial to the U.S. response to the crisis in Ukraine.
Almost immediately after news spread across the globe that Russia had, in fact, invaded Ukraine, Proud Boys’ telegram channels began posting about traveling to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian soldiers.
