2013 Faculty News & Media Mentions


September 1, 2013

Scott Pace discusses U.S. space policy and human space flight on The Space Show.

Stephen Biddle appears on PBS Newshour to discuss the increase in sectarian violence in Iraq. 

The Elliott School launches a new website on Peacekeeping.

Marc Lynch discusses Arab public opinion toward the United States, in Foreign Affairs.

Kimberly J. Morgan co-authors "How Germany Won the Euro Crisis" in Foreign Affairs.

Nathan Brown is quoted in "Terrorism Experts Sought by Public but Not by Academe" in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Stephen Biddle discusses the Afghan national army and the role the Taliban will play in Afghanistan's future on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

Henry Hale examines regime change cascades in the Annual Review of Political Science.

Susan Aaronson argues that the US/EU trade talks are more important for democracy than for trade in Foreign Policy.

Harris Mylonas discusses the themes in his recent book The Politics of Nation-Building on e-International Relations.

Jay Pelosky, Elliott School alum (MA '83 ) and Board of Advisors member, details a strategy for American growth in a policy paper for the New America Foundation.

Nathan Brown is selected as a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow for Near East Studies.

Alexander Downes and his co-author discuss why foreign-imposed regime change rarely leads to democratization in an article for International Security.

Nathan Brown is quoted in Egypt's Long-Term Economic Recovery Plan Stalls, by Farah Halime. The New York Times, 5/2. This article also appears in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Susan Ariel Aaronson is quoted in Obama Asks Trade Nominees to Tackle Slumping U.S. Exports, by Brian Wingfiled. Bloomberg, 5/3.

Amitai Etzioni discusses the politics and potential outcomes of U.S. drone use in The Atlantic.

Elliott School alumna Ginger Thompson (MIPP '07) writes about an episode in the American war on drugs in The New York Times.

Mike Mochizuki advises the United States to be creative in its approaches to North Korea in a Los Angeles Times op-ed

Robert Orttung coauthored an op-ed in The New York Times on state-controlled media in Russia.

Gregg Brazinsky writes the op-ed "A few reasons why North Korea won't nuke us" (subscription required) in the Chicago Tribune.

Scott Pace advises a more integrated approach to U.S. National Space Policy in The Diplomat.

The blog "Analects" on economist.com interviews David Shambaugh about China's rise and long-term foreign-policy ambitions.

David Shambaugh pens the op-ed "Falling Out of Love With China" in The New York Times.

PBS News Hour interviews Mike Mochizuki about President Obama's meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Marc Lynch discusses the U.S. role in the ongoing crisis in Syria on NPR's To The Point.

Paul Williams analyzes the future of the African Union Mission in Somalia in a new briefing paper (.pdf) for the Rift Valley Institute.

Japan Times interviews Mike Mochizuki about the U.S. Futenma air station in Okinawa.

David Shambaugh discusses the myth of China's global power on The Diane Rehm Show.

NPR interviews Marc Lynch about the continuing crisis in Syria and whether the international community could have done anything to reduce the bloodshed.

Tara Sinclair discusses the debate over the debt ceiling in the Huffington Post.

Amb. Edward Gnehm discusses Secretary Clinton's testimony on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attack, on CBC News Network.

On the three year anniversary of Haiti's earthquake, Robert Maguire discusses the country's landscape today, in an interview on NPR.

Kimberly Morgan explores social welfare in the United States and abroad, in an article in Foreign Affairs.

Tony Castleman discusses sexual violence in India, and what it demonstrates about the mobilizing power of humiliation in social movements in the Christian Science Monitor.