As the war in Ukraine gets bloodier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly urged members of the NATO alliance to "close the skies." This appears to be a request for a "no-fly zone" — deploying NATO aircraft to Ukrainian airspace in order to block Russia from using its air force in support of the invasion.
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Last Wednesday, with the news that Vladimir Putin had launched an invasion of its neighbor, Israel's Foreign Ministry issued a statement concerning "steps taken in eastern Ukraine" and endorsing the principle of "territorial integrity." The statement didn't even mention Russia, which rankled the Ukrainian Embassy in Tel Aviv. "We just really hope that they will do something that sounds the same as our Western allies," an Embassy spokeswoman said.
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Faculty and other experts weigh in on the attack and what it could mean.
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After the threat of sweeping sanctions didn't deter Russia's attack on Ukraine, U.S. Treasury Department officials and their counterparts in Europe now face the task of carrying through on their vow to make Russia's economy and its elites pay a price. Key questions are whether sanctions will work and how to measure their impact. With inflation already at record highs, a global pandemic that keeps businesses struggling to reopen and an energy shortage throughout Europe, the right way to punish one of the world's major economies can be complex to tease out.
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Professors Horiuchi and Crabtree led study of pandemic behaviors in Japan and Korea.
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