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• Professor Fawaz Gerges discussed US–Iran tensions and the risk of a potential US attack in a new interview with DW News.

  
  Watch Professor Fawaz Gerges' interview with Sky News, where he discusses Trump’s proposed Board of Peace for Gaza.

• Watch Professor John Sidel discuss James C Scott’s Legacy in Southeast Asian Politics and Society.
• Dr Stephanie Schwartz spoke with FRANCE 24 about Minnesotans' efforts to capture what’s happening during ICE operations.
• Dr Patrick Gill-Tiney spoke to The i Paper about the consequences of a peace deal that favours Putin.
• Read Visiting Fellow Dr Irene Morlino's policy piece, "After the NATO Summit: Where to for European Security and NATO?" in the European Military Forum.
• Read our PhD candidate Partha Moman's new piece, "With AUSSOM’s Funding Challenges Here to Stay, What Are the Options for the Mission’s Future in Somalia?" published by the IPI Global Observatory.
• Read a new review of Professor Fawaz Gerges' latest book, The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East.
• Read Professor Robert Falkner's new publication, "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics," published in a special issue of Global Environmental Politics.
• Professor Peter Trubowitz and Professor Robert Falkner's application to the LSE–Tsinghua University Sustainability Research Fund for their project "Global Sustainability Governance in an Age of International Fracture" has been approved. The project team also includes Dr John Minnich, Professor Catherine Boone, Professor Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor Stephanie Rickard, and Dr Clare Wenham.
• Dr Anna Getmansky has co-authored a research article titled "Red lines versus negotiables: how exposure to wartime violence influences support for peace settlements in Ukraine" published in Political Science Research and Methods.
• On December 14, DINAM Fellow Dr Teona Giuashvili moderated and spoke at a roundtable titled "The South Caucasus: Local Agency and Strategy Adaptation in the Shadow of Russia’s War Against Ukraine" at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. The event formed part of the ASIAC XIX Annual Conference, organised by the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
• Professor Peter Trubowitz co-authored a piece titled "A Middle Way for American Foreign Policy" for Foreign Affairs.
• Our Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Anahita Motazed Rad has been interviewed by Metro for an article exploring the current situation in Iran.
• Professor Chris Alden has co-written a new chapter, “China and the G7,” in The Elgar Companion to the G7.

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