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The Christian Science Monitor
Biden’s UN balancing act: Condemning war while advocating broad agenda
September 21, 2022
With his vision of the democracy-autocracy struggle and specifically, the war in Ukraine, “Biden is speaking and acting with a high degree of moral certainty that we are on the side of the angels,” says Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and founding director of the university’s International Security Center.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Ukrainian forces are stepping up efforts to retake Kherson
July 28, 2022
Features interview with Michael Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations and Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center. (starts at 9:13).
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War is a choice, not a trap: The right lessons from Thucydides
July 19, 2022
Written by Michael Desch, Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) and Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations.
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NPR
Javelin missiles are in short supply and restocking them won't be easy
May 27, 2022
Notre Dame professor Eugene Gholz says it's one of almost two dozen Army-run plants across the country that make and refurbish military hardware.
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The Economist
The price of friendship: China has much to offer African governments, but it also wants much in return
May 20, 2022
Joshua Eisenman of the University of Notre Dame found that, in Ghana, the department had courted the New Patriotic Party (npp) even when it was out of government.
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Ukraine Aid Bill Likely To Pass After DoD's Minor Concessions To Senator Paul
May 17, 2022
Meanwhile, Michael Desch, a professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and the director of the Notre Dame International Security Center, opined that the bill will likely intensify the hostilities in Ukraine as well as hinder a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
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The Economist
How would an energy embargo affect Germany’s economy?
April 30, 2022
Japanese firms were able to quickly substitute away from previously cheap rare earths and find alternative supplies, according to research by Eugene Gholz of the University of Notre Dame and Llewelyn Hughes of the Australian National University.... In a study of the potential effects of a Russian energy embargo on Europe, Rüdiger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame and his co-authors find that while the hit could be large, it would be partly offset by the economy’s ability to adapt.
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CNN
Putin is making the same mistakes that doomed Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union
April 02, 2022
“The evidence suggests that Putin thought he could win a quick victory with the deployment of special forces and airborne units,” says Ian Ona Johnson, a professor of military history at the University of Notre Dame.
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Newsweek
We Overestimated Russia
March 26, 2022
Ian Ona Johnson, assistant professor of military history, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.
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The Wall Street Journal
Momentous Changes in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Organization Deserve Debate
March 25, 2022
Retired generals raise telling questions about the current commandant’s radical new ideas...
Jim Webb was a Marine infantry officer in Vietnam, Navy secretary (1987-88) and a U.S. senator from Virginia (2007-13). He is the Distinguished Fellow at Notre Dame’s International Security Center.
MarketWatch
If China aids Russia, what options would the U.S. have?
March 16, 2022
But sanctions may not stop China from stepping in as an economic buffer, according to Joshua Eisenman, a senior fellow in China studies for the American Foreign Policy Council.
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Chicago Tribune
Ian Johnson: Germany’s recommitment to NATO in response to invasion of Ukraine is a remarkable shift
March 09, 2022
Ian Johnson is the P.J. Moran Family assistant professor of military history at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on German-Russian relations.
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Newsweek
Could Vladimir Putin Be Overthrown by His Own People?
March 05, 2022
Ian Johnson, assistant professor of military history at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, believes that "the possibility of a coup is a faint one, but not impossible."
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Newsweek
What is Going On Inside Vladimir Putin's Head? 12 Experts Weigh In
March 02, 2022
Ian Johnson, assistant professor of military history at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana: "His historical rhetoric suggested aspirations beyond Ukraine, restoring Russian primacy over areas formerly in Russia's orbit across Eastern Europe."
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ABC57
Military history professor talks about the Russian invasion of Ukraine
February 25, 2022
Ian Johnson, Professor of Military History at the University of Notre Dame, discusses what motivated Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine with Russian forces.
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Newsweek
Russian Tank Convoy Blown Up in Videos As Ukraine Fights Back Invasion
February 24, 2022
Ian Johnson, assistant military history professor at the University of Notre Dame said that the death toll "in military and civilian lives could very well reach the tens of thousands."
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CNN
How a battery shortage could threaten US national security
February 23, 2022
Eugene Gholz, a Notre Dame political science professor who previously advised the Pentagon, said national security concerns over energy have been exaggerated before, like with oil. He believes that’s happening again. Gholz thinks the national security risk of electric vehicle adoption are small, and less than the oil supply chain.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Biden’s soft-power policy faces reality of Xi-Putin big-power world
January 18, 2022
“Big-power politics is back in a big way. It’s not a reality President Biden can wish away or ignore,” says Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame and founding director of the university’s International Security Center.
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Vox
The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington
January 07, 2022
“There is a very narrow range of acceptable opinion, and if you’re within it you can weather a lot. Both Pottinger and O’Brien in many respects are inside the Beltway consensus on the big issues of the day,” said Michael Desch, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
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In U.S. Foreign Policy, Is It Time to Kill All the Lawyers?
December 04, 2021
Second, it may be the case that social science has made itself irrelevant to U.S. foreign policy. For example, in his recent book, Michael Desch argues that “the privileging of complex methods and universal models over engaging substantive issues… reduced the policy relevance of the work of many academic defense intellectuals.”