Title: Security Studies Program Publications

Fall 2024

The Center for Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is proud to announce featured publications by Security Studies Program (SSP) students, faculty, and alumni for the Fall 2024 semester! With a total of 73 articles published, 27.39% were alumni (20), 32.87% were current students (24), and 39.72% were faculty (29). We are grateful for these submissions, and we look forward to another great semester and publications in Spring 2025!

1. Rebecca Patterson, Susan Bryant, Mark Troutman, and Ken Gleiman, Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century [Cambria Press]
2. Jordyn Abrams (SSP’26), Violent Extremism in the Shadows of Climate Change: The Case of Lake Chad and Boko Haram [GSSR]
3. Tareq Alotaiba (SSP’25), The UAE’s Network-Based Vision for Economic Integration [Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington]
4. Tareq Alotaiba (SSP’25), Why Abu Dhabi is betting on fusion [Semafor]
5. Tareq Alotaiba (SSP’25), Abu Dhabi is going nuclear for SMRs [Semafor]
6. Tareq Alotaiba (SSP’26), How a New Syria Can Engage with the Gulf [Semafor]
7. Daniel Byman, Bioweapons, North Koreans, and Musk, Oh My! [Lawfare]
8. Daniel Byman, Reflecting On 2 Critical Conflict Zones – Ukraine And Gaza [NPR]
9. Daniel Byman, Observations on the War in Ukraine: Impressions from Our Visit [CSIS]
10. Daniel Byman, A Hezbollah War Would be Israel’s Biggest Challenge in Decades [Financial Review]
11. Daniel Byman, The Beeper Balance Sheet [Foreign Policy]
12. Daniel Byman, Pinpoint Israeli Intelligence Enabled Strike on Nasrallah in Lebanon [Foreign Policy]
13. Daniel Byman, Lessons from Israel’s Last War in Lebanon [CSIS]
14. Daniel Byman, World Waits to See How Israel Will Respond to Deadly Attacks [NPR]
15. Daniel Byman, Where Is the Massive Hezbollah Response to Israel’s Attacks? [Foreign Policy]
16. Daniel Byman, Rational Security: The “Socialist Realism at its Finest” Edition [Lawfare]
17. Daniel Byman, Bioweapons, North Koreans, and Musk, Oh My! [Lawfare]
18. Daniel Byman, What Trump Inherits in Gaza [Foreign Policy]
19. Daniel Byman, 5 Questions About the Cease-Fire Between Israel and Hezbollah [Foreign Policy]
20. Daniel Byman, Al-Assad’s Syria Was Brutal. Will What Comes Next Be Better? [New York Times]
21. Daniel Byman, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Drone Force [Lawfare]
22. Daniel Byman, What Comes After the Assad Regime? Foreign Service Professor Weighs in on Syria’s Future [Georgetown University Ask A Professor Series]
23. Daniel Byman, “Al-Assad’s Syria Was Brutal. Will What Comes Next Be Better?”: Audio Brief with Daniel Byman [YouTube]
24. Daniel Byman, “Strengthening Resilience in Taiwan”: Audio Brief with Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones [YouTube]
25. Stephanie Cannon (SSP’23), An Introduction to Intelligence Oversight with Dr. Loch K. Johnson [GSSR Precision-Guided Podcast]
26. Christopher Costa, Is Putin’s Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism? [SpyTalk]
27. Grace Deri (SSP’25), A Dangerous Alliance: China, Venezuela, and the Twilight of Democracy in Latin America [GSSR]
28. Rocio Gatdula (SSP’26), The Loss of Indispensable Consolations: The Rise of Protectionism and Its Role in Global Conflicts [GSSR]
29. Rocio Gatdula (SSP’26), The Existential Importance of Increased Philippine Defense Spending [The Manila Times]
30. Rocio Gatdula (SSP’26), The Loss of Indispensable Consolations: The Rise of Protectionism and Its Role in Global Conflicts [GSSR]
31. Rafaela Gonzalez Lucioni (SSP’26), Left Behind: The Rohingya Crisis and the World’s Failure to Act [GSSR]
32. Elizabeth Grimm, What Type of Leader Will Hezbollah Have Next? [Lawfare] 
33. Parker Hempel (SSP’25), ‘Havoc the laws of regular warfare do not sanction:’ the resort to punitive violence by British forces in Victorian small wars [Small Wars and Insurgencies]
34. Bruce Hoffman, In and outside of Israel, radicalization runs both ways [The Hill]
35. Bruce Hoffman, Is the United States on the Verge of Civil War? [The Cipher Brief]
36. Noah Higgins (SSP’25), Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections: Last Chance for Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Future [GSSR]
37. Andrew Imbrie, Five Key Issues to Watch in AI in 2025 [SFS Faculty, Featured News, News, Research]
38. John J. Klein, Space and Cyber Warfare as One [CSIS]
39. Krystel von Kumberg (SSP’20), Spying in South Asia [Eye Spy: The Intelligence History Podcast]
40. Sara Bjerg Moller, Rewind and Reconnoiter: It Will Take More Than A Biden Victory to Solve NATO’s Strategic Malaise with Sara Moller [War on the Rocks]
41. Amina Mustapha (SSP’25), Digital Inclusion and the Global Tech Divide: How the Digital Revolution is Leaving Some of Us in the Digital Dark Ages [GSSR]
42. Fabiana Sofia Perera, Tracing Bilateral Security Cooperation: The Asymmetric Deterioration of US–Venezuelan Defense Relations [International Politics]
43. Paul Pillar, Background Briefing (5am) [KPFA 94.1]
44. Antonia-Laura Pup (SSP’26), Women as the Backbone of the EU Competitiveness [Casimir Pulaski Foundation]
45. Kareem Rifai (SSP’25), Senate must protect our intelligence community from Assad ally Tulsi Gabbard [The Hill]
46. Askar Sasongkojati (SSP’26), One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward for Indonesia’s Climate Security [GSSR]
47. Philip Sheers (SSP’24), Over the Brink: Escalation Management in a Protracted War [CNAS]
48. Philip Sheers (SSP’24), Into the Unknown: Managing Conventional and Nuclear Uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific [Breaking Defense]
49. Eva Siegmann (SSP’25), Deterrence Without Destruction: Rethinking Responses to Biological Threats [European Leadership Network]
50. Frank Struzinski (SSP’25), Afghanistan Three Years Later: Alliances and Rivalries [Irregular Warfare Podcast]
51. Frank Struzinski (SSP’25), DIU: Silicon Valley Meets the Modern Battlefield [Irregular Warfare Podcast]
52. Susan Bryant and Sonya Finley, Book Review Roundtable – Why a Political Sensibility Is Important to Successful Military Command [Texas National Security Review]
53. Eric Uribe (SSP’25), Breaking the Chain [RealClear Defense]
54. Eric Uribe (SSP’25), Mercenaries of Influence: How Russian PMCs Redefined Power Projection [Geopolitical Monitor]
55. Heidi Urben, Don’t Ask the U.S. Military to Save American Democracy [Foreign Affairs]
56. Juan P. Villasmil (SSP’26), Is It Time To Stop Insisting on U.S. Global Primacy? [Newsweek]
57. Juan P. Villasmil (SSP’26), Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum Begins Her Presidency [The Spectator World]
58. Juan P. Villasmil (SSP’26), I was censored from talking about Chinese influence in Latin America [The Spectator World]
59. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Opinion: Five Actions the Next US President Can Take on Day One to Boost Critical Minerals Mining [Mining.com]
60. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), The US Government Should Build a Resilient Resource Reserve for Wartime and Peacetime [Atlantic Council]
61. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), The US Must Close an Inflation Reduction Act Loophole That May Benefit Indonesian Nickel [The Northern Miner]
62. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), The West Needs to Produce More Critical Minerals. Here’s How the Pentagon Should Help [Defense One]
63. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), A Critical Minerals Trade War Is Brewing [Heatmap News]
64. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Can the West ‘friendshore’ enough critical minerals? [Asia Times]
65. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), US policy to increase mineral production must include revisiting tariffs [Mining.com]
66. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), The U.S. Needs to Produce More Minerals at Home. Current Policies Only Take Us Partway [Barron’s]
67. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), How Clean Energy Legislation Can Incentivize US Mineral Production [Utility Dive]
68. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Opinion: The United States Should Decrease Its Reliance on Mineral Imports [Mining.com]
69. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Opinion: The United States Should Decrease Its Reliance on Mineral Imports [Mining.com]
70. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), The US Government Should Build a Resilient Resource Reserve for Wartime and Peacetime [Atlantic Council]
71. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), China’s Threat to Ban Critical Mineral Exports Is Not a Bluff [IndustryWeek]
72. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Monitoring China’s Mineral Stockpiling and Understanding Its Military Implications [The Diplomat]
73. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Tariffs Can Help Make the US a Minerals Powerhouse Again [The Hill]
74. Gregory Wischer (SSP’22), Supercharging US Mineral Exploration: A Call for Federal Support [New Security Beat]