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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.
USA Today reports that Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and Senior Research Associate Dave Schmerler observed construction at a North Korean nuclear test site that has been closed since 2018.
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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A team of 13 Middlebury Institute students took the top prize in the Department of Homeland Security’s Invent2Prevent competition, which challenged them to innovate against violence and terrorism.
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A fourth-semester International Policy and Development student, Patton is gaining professional experience through her practicum with the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs.
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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.
Middlebury Institute’s Anna Vassilieva provided commentary to the Boston Herald about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and escalating tensions among the United States, European countries, and Russia.
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis provided insight into North Korea’s spike in missile tests on the U. N. podcast Global Dispatches.
