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.
Washington Post
Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School, says “Europe and America are moving slightly apart from each other” in this article on President Donald Trump’s appearance at the World Economic Forum, during which he threatened tariffs against European countries traditionally thought of as allies to the United States.
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.
WGBH
Fletcher's Monica Duffy Toft is part of this panel discussion on the events following the U.S. assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Suleimani and the future of U.S.-Iran relations.