College of Arts & Letters

July 01, 2026

"I think it's highly unlikely that it's going to make a dent in the Ukrainian mobilization needs," said Michael Desch, professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame. "As your reporter pointed out, there are about 1,500 women in Ukrainian prisons, the majority of whom don't qualify for this particular program, and the needs of the Ukrainian ground forces for troops is much greater than that. They need to be recruiting at least 30,000 troops every month and they're not meeting those quotas." (Interview begins at 4:35)

July 01, 2026

"The cost of insurance is basically proportional to the hazard, to how how big the impact of the bad luck outcome would be, plus a normal rate of profit in the insurance industry, which is affected by the competitive dynamics of the insurance industry," said Eugene Gholz, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. "If the probability approaches one hundred percent that your ship is going to sink, then the cost of insurance approaches the cost of a new ship. And that would be prohibitive." (Interview begins at 36:00)