CNN
A&S political scientist Fahd Humayun comments on the political and economic uncertainty in Pakistan ahead of its crucial 2024 elections, noting “any government coming to power through suspicious elections is not only likely to be on a weak footing and reliant on the military for its political survival but will also be unlikely to attract the capital inflows so badly needed."
Al Jazeera
A&S anthropologist Amahl Bishara joins this The Listening Post segment to discuss the experience of Gaza journalists
Scientific American
Fletcher Dean ad interim Kelly Sims Gallagher comments on this past week’s UN climate summit, noting, “I do not see the COP28 agreement doing more than sending a warning signal to the market due to the vagueness of the text.”
Al Jazeera
Fletcher Visiting Scholar Pavel Luzin comments on Russia’s massive industrial production of FPV drones, which he says are “less effective in comparison with high-precision means of destruction.”
Washington Post
Fletcher’s Chris Miller comments on President Biden’s selection of a defense supplier for the inaugural CHIPS Act Grant saying, “If you look at this particular facility, its chips are used in military communications, in space, in radars, in electronic warfare systems. So there’s a pretty clear link here between what the security interest is, and what the CHIPS Act is accomplishing.”
The Conversation
Fletcher’s Monica Duffy Tofts explores the long history of armed conflict over homeland territories, discussing successful resolutions in Northern Ireland and the Alsace-Lorraine region and why “straightforward solutions” to reconciliation between Israel and Palestine may be challenging to achieve.
New York Times
Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted at length about why doing business with China is harder than ever. A link to the October 2022 New York Times’ review of Miller’s Chip War is included.
New York Times
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal co-authors this opinion piece on actions that President Biden can take to stop the "genocide in the making" in Sudan.
CNN
TUSM’s Barry Levy comments on how the indirect health impacts of war lead to more illness and death than the weapons of war. Levy is the author of From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.