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October 12, 2022 Stars and Stripes
Jeff Colgan comments for Stars and Stripes, “Oil has always glued the two countries together. Lately, however, the relationship seems to be under as much strain as ever.”
October 12, 2022 Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer writes for the Boston Globe, "President Biden has evidently understood the fundamental lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is that opponents in a game of nuclear chicken should talk and deal, not bluster and threaten."
October 11, 2022 Yahoo News
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy Reid Pauly offered commentary for Yahoo News on Russia's use of nuclear threats.
September 30, 2022
The Board of Directors of the US Peace Memorial Foundation unanimously voted to award the 2022 US Peace Prize to Costs of War “For Crucial Research to Shed Light on The Human, Environmental, Economic, Social, and Political Costs of U.S. Wars.”
September 22, 2022 The Chicago Tribune
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein explains for The Chicago Tribune, that the president's recent statements may impact US-China relations.
September 21, 2022 Responsible Statecraft
Report written for the Costs of War project by Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein on the long history of threat inflation in U.S. foreign policy, Russian military weakness, and the implications of the war in Ukraine for U.S. military spending, cited in Responsible Statecraft.
September 18, 2022 Nikkei Asia
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein penned this column for Nikkei Asia, on how escalation risk grows as the U.S. and China build bigger and more sophisticated military systems.
September 16, 2022 Asia Times
“Current pro-Taiwan advocates are putting the very foundation of US-China relations at grave risk,” Lyle Goldstein comments for Asia Times.
September 16, 2022 Newsweek
Regular processing of asylum-seekers has been suspended since March 2020 so the number we are seeing now are much higher, Associate Professor Ieva Jusionyte explains for Newsweek.
September 15, 2022 Forbes
The Costs of War Project analysis cited in Forbes points out that Pentagon spending has never tracked precisely with inflation.
September 15, 2022
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein recently authored a paper in collaboration with the Costs of War project titled, "Threat Inflation, Russian Military Weakness, and the Resulting Nuclear Paradox: Implications of the War in Ukraine for U.S. Military Spending."
September 15, 2022 Business Insider
If the U.S. and NATO increase their military spending and conventional forces in Europe, the weakness of Russian conventional military forces could prompt Moscow to rely more heavily on its nuclear forces, according to the latest report from the Costs of War Project cited in Business Insider.
September 14, 2022 The Boston Globe
Chilean President Gabriel Boric supports a new proposed draft of the country's constitution, Stephen Kinzer writes for The Boston Globe.
September 13, 2022 The New York Times
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein discusses Biden's conversaion with Xi Jinping about nuclear strategy and crisis management for The New York Times.
September 10, 2022 The New York Times
“It is clear that drones would have a very large role in any Chinese campaign to conquer Taiwan,” Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein comments for The New York Times.
September 9, 2022 Forbes
Professor of Economics John Friedman comments for Forbes on the lingering practices and policies that prevent students from accessing a great public education.
September 9, 2022
Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Liana Woskie named a 2022 Guggenheim Emerging Scholar for her dissertation project titled, "Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare."
August 26, 2022 The Christian Science Monitor
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs Lyle Goldstein offered commentary on what's needed to calm tensions in the Taiwan Strait for The Christian Science Monitor.
August 15, 2022 Newsweek
Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar explains that targeting Americans for surveillance generally requires a warrant from the special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in recent Newsweek article.
July 5, 2022
Professor Robert Blair recently authored a paper titled, "Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century" in the British Journal of Political Science published by Cambridge University Press.