News - Quoted

“Russia has enabled China’s military modernization but China so far has not contributed much to the development of Russia’s armed forces, apart from the profits of Russian weapons sales, which can be reinvested to improve Russian capabilities.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

March 13, 2022 Ellen Nakashima, Karen DeYoung, and Cate Cadell The Washington Post

"What the political shift in rural counties looks like since 2000," MEDSL work is cited in the Washington Post

March 11, 2022 Philip Bump The Washington Post

Using data from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, the author creates a map showing the shifts by county since 2000. Red arrows indicate counties that voted more Republican relative to the national margin than they had in 2000. Blue arrows voted more heavily Democratic.

“Russia is far and away the most important arms supplier to China...Where Ukraine has really helped China has been in the area of jet engines, as well as some ship engines and air-to-air missiles.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

March 9, 2022 Eva Dou and Pei Lin Wu The Washington Post

“If the Russian campaign starts to feel like it's a military catastrophe, that's where escalation to nuclear weapons comes into play.”

—Professor Barry Posen

March 6, 2022 Fred Guterl Newsweek

“[Qin’s statement] reflects the duality of China’s approach to Taiwan: appeal to peaceful unification and the Taiwan people as a whole while adopting a much tougher line to Taiwan’s government and increasingly the United States”

—M. Taylor Fravel

February 3, 2022 Phelim Kine POLITICO

“China has been willing to a point to try to provide diplomatic support for Russia, but China doesn’t want to see armed conflict erupt.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

February 1, 2022 Eva Dou and Mary Ilyushina The Washington Post

Prof. Posen cited in Vox, "How America’s NATO expansion obsession plays into the Ukraine crisis"

January 27, 2022 Jonathan Guyer Vox

Prof. Caughey cited in NYTimes guest Essay, "America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory’"

January 26, 2022 Thomas B. Edsall The New York Times

Prof. Stewart cited in "Why millions think it is Trump who cannot tell a lie"

January 19, 2022 Thomas B. Edsall The New York Times

“Beijing’s reticence to make bold pronouncements also reflects its lack of a clear policy framework to deal with the crisis, given its conflicting interests.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

January 19, 2022 World Politics Review

Professor Samuels and and Eric Heginbotham weigh in on Japan security relations.

January 18, 2022 Daniel Sneider Asia Times

“People wildly overestimate the amount of abuse and fraud in various kinds of social programs. But it just strikes people as plausible.”

—Andrea L. Campbell

January 5, 2022 Ian Prasad Philbrick The New York Times

“I do see the Hayashi appointment as part of Prime Minister Kishida's balancing act.”

—Richard Samuels

November 10, 2021 The Japan Times

“Those who say China can invade Taiwan conflate changed rhetoric with changed capability.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

November 9, 2021 Fred Kaplan Slate

“Hypersonic glide vehicles… travel at lower trajectories and may manoeuvre in flight, which makes them challenging to track and destroy.”

—Prof. M. Taylor Fravel

November 1, 2021 Helena Sutan Brinkwire

“It empowers those who are looking for continuity and/or expansion of missile defense or nuclear forces.”

—Vipin Narang

October 22, 2021 Julian Berger The Guardian

“It underscores China’s determination to strengthen its deterrent, especially as amid the steep decline in U.S.-China relations and long-standing concerns about missile defense.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

October 19, 2021 Luis Martinez ABC News

“The most important element of [U.S.-China] competition globally is economics and economic capabilities, and not military power and military capabilities, which makes it different from the Cold War.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

October 19, 2021 Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Zachary Basu Axios

Prof. Narang in Politico "One reason why the U.S. pursues counterforce and missile defense capabilities is precisely to force adversaries to invest a lot of time and resources to develop crazy experimental systems."

October 18, 2021 Alexander Ward and Quint Forgey Politico

Professor Berinsky's research is cited in WBUR's Cognoscenti, "Massachusetts is not the democratic bastion you think it is"

October 18, 2021 Kristina Mensik WBUR Cognoscenti

“Hypersonic glide vehicles . . . fly at lower trajectories and can manoeuvre in flight, which makes them hard to track and destroy.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

October 16, 2021 Demetri Sevastopulo & Kathrin Hille The Financial Times

“More generally, Kim wants to show us that his deterrent is not only ‘complete,’ but that he continues to work on improving survivability and penetrability against both [South Korea] and the U.S., like ‘normal’ nuclear powers do.”

—Vipin Narang

October 11, 2021 Michelle Ye Hee Lee The Washington Post

“These planes are never on a vector to intrude into Taiwan’s airspace.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

October 6, 2021 Fred Kaplan Slate

“It’s absolutely unprecedented in the modern history of these flights that China has run into Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone. Each day breaks the preceding record for the total number of flights on a single day.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

October 5, 2021 Julian Borger The guardian

Prof. Richard Samuels quoted in NYTimes "Why the Governing Party Election Is the Main Event in Japan"

September 28, 2021 Motoko Rich The New York Times