Foreign Policy
Vladimir Putin's tenure as Russian president may be nearing its end, but that doesn't mean he is loosening his grip on power. Fletcher Professor Chris Miller details the lessons Putin learned about power transitions in the former Soviet Union and what it means for Russia moving forward in his latest piece for Foreign Policy.
Tufts Daily
BBC
Fletcher’s Rockford Weitz discusses the impact of Iran's airstrike on global oil flow following Iran's airstrikes on US military targets in Iraq.
Indiatimes.com
Fletcher student Devang Shah authors this piece on the significance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone’s responses to a recent attack on unarmed students and faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in India.
BBC
Fletcher School Professor of the Practice Rockford Weitz discusses the impact of Iran’s airstrike on U.S. military targets in Iraq on global oil flow. Weitz begins speaking around the 3:40 mark.
The Washington Post
In this opinion piece, Fletcher postdoctoral scholar Benjamin Denison examines how forcible regime change rarely achieves the goal of advancing U.S. interests. Denison is the author of “The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Failure of Regime-Change Operations.”
WBUR
Fletcher's Monica Duffy Toft authors this "Cognoscenti" op-ed on the Trump administration's Iran strategy.
The New Humanitarian
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal and Friedman’s Helen Young are both quoted in this article exploring why the democratic movement in Sudan, which recently overthrew President Omar al-Bashir, has not taken hold in the Darfur region.
The National Interest
Fletcher’s Daniel Drezner is quoted from his Washington Post column regarding best and worst case scenarios for what can happen between the United States and Iran as a result of the U.S. assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Suleimani.