May 2020 in the News

May 2020

Each month, Elliott School faculty members are quoted, interviewed, and published in top media outlets from around the world on breaking news and pressing global affairs.

WORLD

AJAY CHHIBBER – The Financial Express
authored Coordinating Covid-Response: Global coordination needed to tackle Covid-19 crisis

KIMBERLY ANN ELLIOT – World Politics Review
authored Hawley’s Call to Abolish the WTO Echoes an Ominous Past

BENJAMIN FARLEY – Just Security
authored Getting it wrong: The 9/11 Military Commission and the justiciability of armed conflict

HENRY NAU – The Washington Times
authored Trump's foreign policy course correction may rescue today's globalized world

DAVID SHINN – The Washington Post
quoted in UN health agency chief unbowed amid attacked, Trump criticism

TARA SINCLAIR – Seeking Alpha
interviewed in Coronavirus Slams Global Economy: Interview with Prof. Tara Sinclair

LYRIC THOMPSON – NBC News
co-authored Women leaders successfully fighting coronavirus show why we need a feminist foreign policy

AFRICA

DAVID SHINN – South China Morning Post
quoted in Coronavirus: China's aid effort in Africa is nothing new, observers say

DAVID SHINN – Eurasia Review
quoted in Why Russia is slow to unlock media potential with Africa

DAVID SHINN – South China Morning Post
quoted in Coronavirus: Africa's debt problems must not be used as a political football, experts say

PAUL WILLIAMS – Foreign Policy
quoted in U.S. Military’s Hub in Africa Fights to Keep the Coronavirus Out

ASIA

AJAY CHHIBBER – Atlantic Council
authored Can India make an opportunity out of crisis?

KIMBERLY ANN ELLIOT – WPR
authored China Is the Key to North Korea’s Denuclearization. Trump Is Throwing It Away

AMITAI ETZIONI – Carnegie Council
authored China's Changing Role in the Pandemic-Driven World: A Dove's Perspective

SEBASTIEN PEYROUSE – BuzzFeed
quoted in This Leader Has Banned His Doctors From Saying The Word "Coronavirus" — And Refuses To Admit There Are Any Cases

DAVID SHINN – Foreign Policy Research Institute
participated in the podcast China’s Wider Quest for Influence: Africa and Eurasia

DAVID SHINN – Fairfax County Public Library and Great Decisions Group
interviewed about Red Sea Security

DAVID SHINN – VOA News
quoted in Taiwan’s Tsai to Tread Cautiously on Cross-Strait Relations at Inauguration: Experts

DAVID SHINN – U.S. - China Economic and Security Review Commission
testified in the Hearing on China's Strategic Aims in Africa

DAVID SHINN – Panda Paw Dragon Claw
interviewed in Covid-19 and Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Q&A with Ambassador David H. Shinn

SHARON SQUASSONI – Bloomberg
quoted in Saudi Atomic Reactor Progresses With Inspectors Still Frozen Out

EUROPE

HENRY HALE – The Washington Post
co-authored Ukraine’s citizens worry about COVID-19. And they still have to worry about the war

NORTH AMERICA

REUBEN BRIGETY – The New York Times
quoted in African-Americans Are Highly Visible in the Military, but Almost Invisible at the Top

MARK EDBERG – WAMU FM's The Kojo Nnamdi Show
interviewed in Undocumented: The Pandemic’s Forgotten

AMITAI ETZIONI – National Interest
authored Wearing a Face Mask is Patriotic

HENRY HERTZFELD – Scientific American
quoted in NASA Proposes New Rules for Moon-Focused Space Race

STEPHEN KAPLAN – Marketplace
interviewed in This crisis is hard on us. It’s even harder on countries that aren’t rich

MATTHEW LEVINGER – The Tampa Bay Times
authored America can aid farmers and help stem worldwide starvation during the pandemic

JOHN LOGSDON – ABC News
quoted in SpaceX and NASA set for 'milestone' launch of astronauts to the International Space Station

JOHN LOGSDON – Associated Press
quoted in NASA, SpaceX bringing astronaut launches back to home turf with Florida liftoff

JAY SHAMBAUGH – CNBC
mentioned in Study finds 44% of U.S. unemployment applicants have been denied or are still waiting

JAY SHAMBAUGH – CNBC
mentioned in Americans got $48 billion in unemployment benefits last month. It could have been double

JAY SHAMBAUGH – Hamilton Project
authored Incomes Have Crashed. How Much Has Unemployment Insurance Helped?

TARA SINCLAIR – The Washington Post
quoted in Nearly every state had historic levels of unemployment last month, new data shows

TARA SINCLAIR – PolitiFact
quoted in Fact check: Has 50% of U.S. workforce been 'idled' by coronavirus?

SHARON SQUASSONI – Forbes
quoted in How The Uranium Market Will Evolve For The Post-Pandemic Energy World

OCEANIA

STEVEN HAMILTON – The Sydney Morning Herald
authored Scheme is flawed but JobKeeper promises need to be honoured

GOVERNMENT

ALEXANDER DOWNES – The Washington Diplomat
quoted in Academics Say U.S. Interventions to Force Regime Change Often Fail

KIMBERLY ANN ELLIOT – WPR
authored No, Trump’s Trade Policies Still Won’t Save American Manufacturing

AMITAI ETZIONI – National Interest
authored Donald Trump is redefining the role of "Big Government" in America

AMITAI ETZIONI – The Hill
authored Needed: a time-bound virtual Congress

AMITAI ETZIONI – National Interest
authored Joe Biden's globalist trap

HENRY FARRELL – The Washington Post
authored Twitter started fact-checking Trump. Then Trump threatened to close it down

JAMES FOSTER – The Union Journal
quoted in Salt on the wound of inequality: coronavirus widens the economic gap

STEVEN HAMILTON – Newsweek
mentioned in Trump Thinks Tax Cuts in Second Stimulus Pakcage Will Provide a Path to Economic Recovery - Experts Disagree

NINA KELSEY – VICE
quoted in How Joe Biden Could Become an Unlikely Climate Savior

JOHN LOGSDON – The Guardian
quoted in Trump wants America looking at the stars as he drags it through the gutter

NED PRICE – Reuters
quoted in Former U.S. officials question DOJ’s probe of ‘unmasking’ of Trump ally

DAVID SHINN – Associated Press
quoted in Profile: WHO chief Tedros unbowed amid attacks, Trump criticism

THOMAS RUSSO – Natural Gas & Electricity Journal
authored Regulatory Challenges of Renewable Natural Gas