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- 2023
- A better way to protect free speech on campus
- As Blinken visits Israel amid violence, US confirms drone attacks on Iran
- Biden is about to have his hands full in the Middle East
- Did the unipolar moment ever end?
- Japan, China hold Foreign Minister call days after NATO chief’s visit
- Lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Nuclear war theory: Continuity and change
- Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia after the invasion of Ukraine
- Russia's rebound
- Sudan’s generals are dragging the country toward disaster
- The cost of 'normalcy': Updating Japan's national security
- The failed “coup-proofing” behind the recent violence in Sudan
- The threat of civil breakdown is real
- Why security assistance often fails
- Why we believe the US still has the upper hand in a war over Taiwan
- You can go home again: A proposal for phased military withdrawal from Iraq and normalizing US–Iraq relations
- 2022
- A few members of the Russian Parliament speak out against the war.
- A major Ukrainian internet provider reports a cyberattack.
- After Abe, Japan tries to balance ties to the US and China
- Aid organizations say they are seeing signs of trafficking of people fleeing Ukraine.
- As Brazil’s election day approaches, fear of violence grows
- Attacking Russia in Ukraine means war
- Bolsonaro and Lula are heading to second round in Brazil election
- Boots on the ground, eyes in the sky
- CIS mourns the loss of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
- Can Russia and the West survive a nuclear crisis in Ukraine?
- Causing crisis works
- China and India need to reimagine what is possible on the border
- China's COVID protests are powerful, but they cannot challenge Xi Jinping's regime
- Do armed drones reduce terrorism? Here’s the data.
- Enhancing strategic stability in Southern Asia
- Five books that illuminate the agony and uncertainty of civilians caught in wars
- For this border crisis, Poles extend a warm welcome, unlike last time.
- Four EU countries expel dozens of Russian diplomats suspected of espionage.
- From 1994: Posen's "A Defense Concept for Ukraine"
- Here’s what Western leaders need to remember about Zelensky’s emotional appeals
- History as it happens: Invisible carnage
- How the killing of Iran’s top general squandered US leverage in Iraq today
- How the war complicates Biden's Iran diplomacy
- How the war in Ukraine could get much worse
- How to avoid a war over Taiwan
- Hypotheses on the implications of the Ukraine-Russia War
- In Poland, protesters demand a ban on road cargo traffic between the EU and Russia and Belarus.
- Kishida Becomes First Japanese PM to Attend NPT Review Conference
- Letting go of Afghanistan: Presidents Biden and Trump were right
- Let’s not grant Saudi Arabia a blank check for American support
- Major flip in Iraqi government this week: could crisis be over?
- Moqtada al-Sadr, called on his bluff, retreats for now
- More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from areas near Kyiv and the city of Sumy.
- NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe has been building rapidly.
- NPT conference collapse, military drills further strain Japan-Russia relations
- Pentagon says Poland’s fighter jet offer is not ‘tenable.’
- Poland will propose a NATO peacekeeping mission for Ukraine at the alliance’s meeting this week.
- Putin’s misleading hairsplitting about who can join NATO
- Republicans will quit any nuclear deal with Iran, scholar predicts
- Reviving war-game scholarship at MIT
- Russia, Ukraine, and European security
- Russian forces abducted four Ukrainian journalists, a union says.
- Sanctions won't end Russia's war in Ukraine
- Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
- Should the United States pledge to defend Taiwan?
- The American conspiracy against Pakistan that never existed
- The Falklands War at 40: A lesson for our time
- The Russian sanctions regime and the risk of catastrophic success
- The Russo-Ukrainian war’s dangerous slide into total societal conflict
- The UN has documented at least 3,924 Ukrainian civilian deaths in the war.
- The clashing narratives that keep the US and Iran at odds
- The dawn of drone diplomacy
- The ghosts of history haunt the Russia-Ukraine crisis
- The latest round of sanctions on Russia
- The new Iraqi PM is a status quo leader, but for how long?
- The real fallout from the Mar-a-Lago search
- The rewards of rivalry: US-Chinese competition can spur climate progress
- The risk of Russian chemical weapons use
- There is no NATO open-door policy
- These disunited states
- Think COVID has stunted growth? Try 30 years of conflict.
- To prevent war and secure Ukraine, make Ukraine neutral
- US public prefers diplomacy over war on Ukraine
- Ukraine needs solutions, not endless war
- Ukraine war
- Ukraine war revives anxiety about nuclear conflict
- Ukraine: Three divergent stands, three scenarios
- Ukraine: Unleashing the rhetorical dogs of war
- Ukraine’s celebrities are dying in the war, adding an extra dimension to the nation’s shock.
- Ukraine’s implausible theories of victory
- Uncovering the strategic aspects of Sino-India ties
- Watching war in real time, one TikTok at a time
- We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone
- We need to think the unthinkable about our country
- What Putin’s nuclear threats mean for the US
- What ever happened to our fear of Armageddon?
- What is America's interest in the Ukraine war?
- What to expect from Biden’s big Middle East trip
- When migrants become weapons
- Why Putin went straight for the nuclear threat
- Why the US wants a ban on ASAT missile testing
- Xi broke the social contract that helped China prosper
- 2021
- A Middle East Forum can help Biden succeed
- A liberal case for seapower?
- A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!
- After the apocalypse: US nuclear policy
- America’s Alliances: Achieving Common Ends
- Beyond forever war
- Can Europe defend itself?
- Can the world change course on climate?
- China and India are pulling back from the brink. They’ve created a buffer zone and started talks.
- China’s nuclear arsenal is growing. What does that mean for US-China relations?
- Commercial satellites — not US intelligence — revealed China’s missile program
- Don't count your submarines before they're built
- Don't knock yourself out: How America can turn the tables on China by giving up the fight for command of the seas
- Don’t sink the nuclear submarine deal
- Freedom of navigation operations: A mission for unmanned systems
- How Americans' views of the military have changed over 20 years
- How Japan is falling short
- How can we neutralize the militias?
- How not to win allies and influence geopolitics
- How the US could really help Haiti
- In Europe's new humanitarian crisis, border security is prioritized over human rights
- India’s farm protests turned violent last week. But why are farmers protesting in the first place?
- Is US foreign policy too hostile to China?
- Is Washington right to leave Afghanistan?
- Morocco ‘weaponized’ migration to punish Spain. That’s more common than you think.
- Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa won't be silenced
- Politicians aren’t usually saints. But Pope Francis just put one on the path to sainthood.
- Private eyes in the sky
- Public-private partnerships key to providing high-quality broadband to all
- Russia: A problem, not a threat
- Russia’s new crises on the periphery
- Sole purpose is not no first use: Nuclear weapons and declaratory policy
- Strait of emergency?
- The Taliban has seized more cities, despite US efforts to build a strong Afghan military. What happened?
- The Texas abortion law has an Eastern European ring to it
- The transatlantic relationship: Radical reform is in the US national interest
- The world needs to quit oil and gas. Africa has an idea: Rich countries first.
- There is no legal way to stop Trump from ordering a nuclear strike if he wants to, expert says
- US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained
- US-China first strike showdown: Rising nuclear tensions
- Underplaying the China threat
- Want to fix the Border Patrol? Don't carbon-copy the playbook to reform police
- What is nuclear China up to?
- Why America can’t build allied armies
- Why Iran may be in no hurry to get nuclear weapons even without a nuclear deal
- Why conservatives turned on the US military
- Will America ever reckon with the human cost of the Afghanistan War?
- 2020
- 4 things that will happen if Kim Jong-un died
- America and China have hampered peace progress on the Korean peninsula
- An ode to the humble balcony
- Beware of Latvians bearing gifts
- Can the democrats avoid Trump’s China trap?
- China’s sovereignty obsession
- Coronavirus halts street protests, but climate activists have a plan
- Courting war
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- Deal-making during the coronavirus pandemic
- Do pandemics promote peace?
- Does the global pandemic open new South China Sea opportunities for Beijing? Not really.
- Don’t classify the FYDP; Budget transparency helps allies, taxpayers
- Europe can defend itself
- Europe has kept down pandemic unemployment--and the US hasn’t. Here’s why.
- Fireflies have a mating problem: The lights are always on
- Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly
- How Donald Trump should handle China's growing power
- How coronavirus will affect the US military
- How digital contact tracing slowed Covid-19 in East Asia
- Important Iraqi archives are now back in Baghdad. Where were they, and what happens now?
- India's Pangong pickle: New Delhi's options after its clash with China
- Insights from the After iGEM biosecurity policy conference
- Integrating emerging technology in multinational military operations: The case of artificial intelligence
- Iraqi protesters will likely push forward despite violence
- Is it time for a grand strategy of restraint? A debate
- It’s high time we fought this virus the American way
- Mike Pompeo criticized China for not respecting its neighbors territorial integrity
- Pandemic politics: Covid-19 and grand strategy
- Pandemic politics: Covid-19 and the US military
- Pandemic politics: How the Future Strategy Forum amplifies the expertise of women
- Samuels summarizes "Special Duty" in Ambassador Brief
- Seven bad options to counter state sponsorship of proxies
- Temperatures at a Florida-size glacier in Antarctica alarm scientists
- Tension high, altitude higher: Logistical and physiological constraints on the Indo-Chinese border
- The Middle East in an era of great power competition
- The future of the Iran nuclear deal
- The inspector general’s badge of honor
- Training the Covid-19 cohort: Adapting and preserving social science research
- Trump and Modi will meet in India this week; here's what to expect
- Trump’s peace plan is a paradigm shift
- Tweak ocean ecosystems? Maybe not, study says.
- Unconditional: The Japanese surrender in World War II
- Understanding US-China strategic competition
- Unearthing the stories of yesterday's George Floyds
- Vipin Narang on the global nuclear landscape: hype and reality
- We lead three universities. It’s time for drastic action.
- What the nuclear ban treaty means for America's allies
- Why are China and India skirmishing at their border? Here’s 4 things to know.
- Why we can’t be friends with our allies
- Yemen's proxy wars explained
- 2019
- After terrorist attack in Kashmir, will India seek vengeance or de-escalation?
- Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?
- Baghdadi’s martyrdom bump
- China is not an enemy
- End the ‘Global Gag Rule’
- Even conservative Iranians want closer ties to the United States
- Exporting the American dream
- Great power competition
- How Donald Trump pushed Iran to the bomb
- India’s counterforce temptations: strategic dilemmas, doctrine, and capabilities
- Iraqi protesters demand constitutional change. Can they make it happen?
- Is a new nuclear age upon us?
- It is long past time to stop expanding NATO
- Its monarchy has left Saudi Arabia fragile and unbalanced
- Japan whack-a-mole foreign policy
- Jaw–Jaw: A look at the PLA's history of planning for war with Taylor Fravel
- Learning to embrace an unequal alliance
- National borders don't stop in the physical world – they're in cyberspace too
- North Korea and America’s second summit
- Opinion: Saudi money in US horse racing is the sports next moral jam
- Russia might regret the US drawdown in Syria
- Saudi Arabia must dismantle the male guardianship system
- Serbian journalists are under attack. Does the international community care?
- The 'new Cold War' with China is way overblown. Here's why.
- The Hanoi Summit was doomed from the start
- The Hanoi Summit – we asked Se Young Jang what happens next in US-North Korea relations
- The ever-evolving importance of Japan’s coast guard
- The geography of Gulenism in Turkey
- The role of Iraq’s influential Shiite clerics is changing. Here’s how.
- The year of living dangerously with nuclear weapons
- Time to pull US nuclear weapons out of Turkey
- Tirman featured at “Tyranny Comes Home” symposium
- Trump aside, what’s the US role in NATO?
- Trump wants a safe zone in Syria. Is that even possible?
- Trump's asylum policy is a death sentence for Africans fleeing violence
- US-China relationship guidelines
- US–South Korea military negotiations could cost the alliance
- What digital nerds and bio geeks have to worry about
- Why India wants to break its decades-old nuclear pledge
- Why North Korea is testing missiles again
- Winning the nuclear game against North Korea
- Winning the nuclear game against Putin’s Russia
- With trophy hunting, wildlife loses
- Woods Hole, MIT targeted by Chinese hackers
- ‘No first use’ nuke policy isn’t dead, but losing sanctity
- Older
- Outrage over the culture of rape in India
- '24' on the brain
- 'Talk to my eyes, not to my chest'
- 100,000 dead in Iraq
- A blind eye to justice in Cambodia
- A floundering WTO
- A focus on facts ought to dispel mistrust of US Muslims
- A new Cold War with Iran?
- An inspiration against nuclear arms
- Diversifying Iraqi security forces
- Don't put nuclear waste on military bases
- Double-speak on missile defense
- Draft lessons from Europe
- Europe cannot advance on two fronts
- Fighting blind in Iraq
- Flawed military model, made in the USA
- Foreseeing a bloody siege in Baghdad
- Forget the draft: fix the volunteer force and they will come
- Generations have been decimated; who will be left to rebuild the nation?
- Gujarat: a plea and a proposal
- Gunning for reform
- Hegemon down
- Impunity from My Lai to Abu Ghraib
- In Iraq, the losses Americans don't see
- It is time for the military to live within its means
- Japan's Jujitsu leader
- Japan's shifting strategic discourse
- Making the cuts, keeping the benefits
- Many hidden costs line national security path
- Mexico's dangerous political chasm
- More troops for what?
- México visto desde fuera: democracia en perspectiva
- México visto desde fuera: los límites de la democracia
- No to Africa command
- One island, divided
- Paying the costs in Iraq
- Political polarization will strengthen Mexican democracy
- Redeploy the dollars
- Strategy for the terror war
- Surge could push troops to breaking point
- Syria’s red line
- The caste system- India's apartheid?
- The changing face of Chinese diplomacy
- The heavy price of censorship
- The inspections flap: both sides are wrong
- The more muscular Japan
- The politics of chicken littleism
- The risks of staying vs. leaving Iraq
- The rogue that plays by the rules
- The violence of development
- Transatlantic crisis will hurt arms industry
- UN credibility at stake
- US has window to skip weapon generation
- Use of chemical weapons could be Syria’s ‘bloody crescendo’
- Violence in Iraq
- We can live with a nuclear Iran
- Weighing the cost of today's defense strategy
- Why believe it this time?
- 2023
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- Buying national security: how America plans and pays for its global role and safety at home
- CIS turns 60
- Center for International Studies honors Robert Wilhelm
- Chinese anti-Japan protests
- Civil-military relations under President Trump
- Claiming the state
- Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
- Cyberpolitics in international relations
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- Defining Success and Mapping the Road Ahead for Public-Private Partnership and Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
- Democratic insecurities: violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti
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- Fear and a pattern of political killing in Russia
- Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
- Firms and the state in Chinese overseas investment
- From South Africa, a success story for democracy
- Give but also take: China’s Covid-19 vaccine aid
- Global financial crisis
- Global policy advice for President Biden
- Hidden atrocities: The Tokyo trial
- Insurgent organizational structure
- Is an armed conflict imminent?
- Japan's dance with the dragon and the bear
- Japan's democratic party strives for normalcy
- Learning to be capitalists
- Making in America
- Much ado about decline
- National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
- Nosy Neighbors: Regional Interference in Great Power Interventions
- Not in your backyard: understanding state action against violent non-state actors
- Nuclear strategy in the modern era
- On the constitutional void in Haiti
- Publicity-driven accountability in China
- Roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
- Selective leviathans
- Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
- Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
- Surviving violence in Delhi: How control and predictability affect decision-making
- The Iraq invasion: Twenty years later
- The cult of the persuasive: The organizational origins of US strategy in military assistance
- The dictator's army
- The domestic roots of Chinese assertiveness
- The other side of the COIN
- The pioneering role of CIS in American war gaming
- The right to kill?
- Thinking clearly about China's economic statecraft
- Threat Perception and Immigration Reform in the United States
- Trump's Victory: What Does It Mean for You?
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- Under duress: The effects of wartime economic isolation
- Wargaming revival at MIT
- Western intervention in the Balkans
- What Next? Challenges ahead for President Biden
- What kind of capitalism?
- What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
- Why clerics turn deadly
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- Starr Forum: From Chornobyl to Zaporizhzhia: The Atom and its Impact on Ukraine’s Politics and Security
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- 2022
- Starr Forum: #ViralPotentials: How South Asian Women Use TikTok
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- China spread virus, India gave fitting reply — Aaj Tak, News18 looks for Chinese army in Noida
- China's 'grand gestures,' propaganda aim to calm fears about coronavirus
- China's modern military strategy in historical perspective
- China, India, and sovereignty in the Himalayas
- China’s military provokes its neighbors, but the message is for the United States
- Chinese aggression in Ladakh also a message for domestic and external audience: Experts
- Democracy in distress?
- Did the killing of Qassim Suleimani deter Iranian attacks, or encourage them?
- Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91
- Dreaming big in a small country
- Ending the forever wars, by any means necessary
- Experts debunk fringe theory linking China’s coronavirus to weapons research
- Experts explain: What triggered China’s recent LAC moves?
- Fact-checking Tom Cotton's claims about the coronavirus
- Faculty seed projects grow into pandemic research opportunities
- Far from being weakened by coronavirus, China pursues sovereignty claims on all fronts
- Fellowship is at the heart of emergency response in Nigeria
- Fingers, boots, and lines: Understanding the 2020 India-China border tensions
- First China, now Pakistan: How India's battling on two fronts
- For cultural and political conflicts, a humanizing imperative
- Former inspector general: Trump is attacking the ‘institution’ of oversight
- Fostering friendships and films from across the globe
- Fotini Christia named director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
- France creates first university intelligence chair and masters course on the dark arts of espionage
- Fresh Pangong lake face-off complicates Jaishankar-Wang’s face-to-face meet
- George W Bush slips in and out of town as Poodle naps
- Himalayan flashpoint could spiral out of control as India and China face off
- Hiroshima's legacy 75 years later
- History contradicts new Chinese claims over Bhutan's territory
- How an Iranian cyberattack might start
- How exiled Saudi Arabian activists are quietly building a resistance movement
- Huge rally will highlight Trump’s visit to India
- Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile—think tank
- India and China meet to defuse Himalayan border tensions
- India and China trade barbs after ‘gang war’ high in the Himalayas
- India has closed military gap with China along border
- India looks to continuity in ties under Biden, experts expect rebalancing in some areas
- India reinforces contested region as China holds ground, sources say
- India-China agree to disengage at Galwan Valley; experts discuss the road ahead
- India-China clash: An extraordinary escalation 'with rocks and clubs'
- India-China standoff: Prof M Taylor Fravel speaks on the false claim of Galwan by China
- Inspectors general: oversight, authority, and removal with Joel Brenner
- Intervention or restraint: Ruger and Posen debate Kristol and Flournoy
- Iran drives another stake into the heart of the nuclear deal
- Iran nuclear deal continues to unravel
- Iraqi parliament votes to expel US troops from country
- It all adds up
- Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies at 76
- Ladakh face-off | China’s Foreign Minister blames India ‘for deliberately provoking’ border clash
- Low-yield warhead eliminates need for nuclear buildup, state says
- MISTI pilots conversations in energy
- MIT Africa's Ari Jacobovits helps produce Covid-19 hackathon
- MIT deepens connections to the Middle East
- MIT’s response to Covid-19
- Mattis calls out clearing protesters outside White House 'abuse of executive authority'
- Might technology tip the scales?
- Modi denies any Indian territory was lost in China clash
- Modi finds neighbors silent as India-China tensions simmer
- Modi says China isn’t occupying Indian territory after clash
- N Korea fires projectiles, after 'momentous' retaliation threat
- National security is in the eye of the beholder
- New North Korea ICBM report suggests Pyongyang can hit US with nukes
- North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South
- North Korea has unveiled new weapons, showing Trump failed to tame its nuclear program
- North Korea seen expanding rocket launch facility it once promised to dismantle
- North Korea signals end of nuclear-test suspension, promises 'new' weapon
- North Korea unveils ‘very destabilizing’ ICBM
- Oil prices surge after US attack kills senior Iran military chief
- Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
- Pan-India News 18 poll on India-China standoff: Here’s what it means according to experts
- Philippines backs off threat to terminate military pact with US
- Pictures and videos show California burning as more wildfires break out across state
- Power, the party, and the president: Xi's revolutionary past
- Putin's virus disinformation campaign against Americans
- Q&A: Holly Jackson on building a cosmic family tree
- Qassem Soleimani long targeted the United States
- Qassem Soleimani, top Iranian general, killed in US airstrike in Baghdad
- Report: Boston minority communities hit hardest by evictions
- Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program
- Russia 'thinks they can get away with' poisoning Navalny
- Russia, China and the US: Who has the best Middle East policy?
- Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize
- Satellite images indicate Russia is preparing to resume testing its nuclear-powered cruise missile
- Saudi Arabia 'planned to spy on Khashoggi's fiancee in UK'
- Saudi Arabia runs squalid, abusive jails for women disowned by their male guardians — a forgotten chapter in its rush to champion women’s rights
- Secret Tibetan military force raises stakes in India-China clash
- Shining a light on the quantum world
- Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows
- Spies being left exposed in the digital age
- Study: State-level adoption of renewable energy standards saves money and lives
- Taiwan is building eight new submarines—they alone could destroy a Chinese invasion fleet
- Taiwan's planned submarine fleet could forestall a potential Chinese invasion for decades
- The 2 most controversial national security items in Trump’s new budget
- The 9/11 Commission Report, the pandemic and the future of Homeland Security
- The Galwan Valley clash and China’s approach to sovereignty disputes
- The Japanese intelligence community & espionage
- The rumors of Kim Jong Un’s “grave” illness, explained
- The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain
- Threat from nuclear weapons and missiles has grown since Trump entered office
- Tibet’s shadow looms over Himalayan stand-off
- Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked
- Transatlantic research and study partnership continues amid the pandemic
- Trump administration’s move on visas is ‘dream-crashing’ for Indian students and families
- Trump says the US nuclear arsenal is now 'tippy top' thanks to him, but nuke experts say he's out of touch with reality
- Trump slams China’s pattern of aggression
- Trump wages a war on watchdogs as coronavirus elevates their importance
- Trump’s inaccurate statements about the conflict with Iran
- Trump’s virus treatment revives questions about unchecked nuclear authority
- Trump’s ‘highly unusual’ politicization of government watchdogs
- Twenty years of cultivating tech entrepreneurs
- Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrent
- Two years after Trump-Kim meeting, little to show for personal diplomacy
- US military deploys new type of nuclear weapon seen as key to countering Russia
- US pulls out of open skies treaty
- US sanctions Turkey over Russian air defense system, raising questions and concerns
- US says most of China’s claims in South China Sea are illegal
- US tells foreign students with online classes to go, universities look at options
- Universities should lead the way on climate action, MIT panelists say
- What Trump's visit means for India?
- What do the IG firings say about American democracy?
- What's the path forward on Iran?
- When culture clashes with Covid-19
- Where is Kim Jong Un?
- Who is Mohammad bin Salman?
- Who is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist killed in attack outside Tehran?
- Why do banking crises occur?
- Why soldiers fight
- Why the Beirut blast created a mushroom cloud
- Why the confusion about Kim Jong Un's health actually makes sense
- Will the Covid-19 pandemic change national security?
- Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?
- Xi’s obsession to look strong amid domestic discontent likely reasons for China’s rogue behaviour, say experts
- 2019
- 'The clock is ticking': A year on from the Singapore summit Kim Jong Un is losing patience with Donald Trump's strategy
- 1 big thing: No deal in Hanoi
- 3 Questions: Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
- 3Q: John Tirman on a new US human rights commission
- A brief history of intelligence whistleblowing
- A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
- A look at US national security after Bolton's departure
- A look at the fallout from the Jamal Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia
- A month after G20, Trump's Asia policy achievements appear to be unraveling
- A nuclear world with Vipin Narang
- A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks
- A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed.
- A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy
- AI meets bureaucratic politics
- Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter
- Africa insiders: Tiny Gambia stands up for the Rohingya
- After Trump and Kims handshake, what comes next in US-North Korean talks
- After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
- All things policy: talking nukes with Vipin Narang
- Amazing event North Korea lauds Trump-Kim meeting at border
- An interview with Dr Scott Sagan and Dr Vipin Narang
- Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?
- As North Korea doubles down on its nuclear weapons, Trump and the US are stuck with ‘strategic patience’
- At the Center for International Studies, a student endowment for women in international affairs
- BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J Samuels
- Best/worst cases for Trump-Kim II
- Billions dead: That's what could happen if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war
- Book Review: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since1949
- Burna Boy, Timini Egbuson amongst others win big at TFAA 2019
- Chaguan | A chained dragon
- China says the US is undermining global stability
- Chinese and Iranian hackers renew their attacks on US companies
- Civilians evacuated from last ISIS-held village in Syria
- Co-designing assistive technologies in India
- Commerce and coercion
- Could someone actually steal a US nuke?
- Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
- Delhi denies asking Trump to mediate Kashmir dispute
- Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no.
- Disbelief, joy and resistance as Saudi women get first passports
- Dueling investigations? Days before inspector general's report on FBI's Russia investigation, Trump promotes AG probe
- Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
- Ep 124: Nuclear war, deterrence and peace
- Even for a limited nuclear deal, North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief
- Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
- Failed Russian nuclear test hints at Putin's dangerous plans to beat US defenses
- Fast, low and hard to stop: North Korea’s missile tests crank up the threat level
- Foreign Affairs reviews “Special Duty”
- Former NSA inspector: whistleblower does not need firsthand information
- Former inspector general on Trump & republicans attacking the whistleblower
- From focus to forgotten: Why no N Korea spotlight at UN?
- GOP lawmakers invited to WH today
- Greater Boston: Vindman testifies about Trump's Zelensky call and Volker revises his testimony
- Group of former intelligence community watchdogs call for protecting whistleblowers
- Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series
- Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer
- How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
- How Pakistan is playing Washington—again
- Impeachment spotlights vulnerability of acting federal watchdogs
- Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections
- India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon
- India says committed to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons for now
- India slips further behind China during first five years of Modi
- India weighs military options against Pakistan as Kashmir tensions rise
- India, Pakistan exchange fire
- India–Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead?
- India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites
- Intelligence reforms: time for a Japanese James Bond
- Iran denies US claims about drone attack
- Iran says it has exceeded uranium limits set in 2015 nuclear deal
- Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook
- Iran will stop complying with some parts of US nuclear deal
- Is Boston a cloud security hub
- Is India “creatively reinterpreting” its no-first-use policy?
- Is the US about to lower the bar for North Korea denuclearisation?
- Is the US inching closer to war with Iran?
- Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
- It’s clearer than ever that the US’s North Korea policy is in total chaos
- Japanese report to say North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads
- Japanese spies, once renowned, have fallen on hard times
- Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76
- Jeanne Guillemin, who exposed Soviet anthrax lab, dies at 76
- Joel Brenner comments on whistleblower issue
- Joel Brenner on whistleblower & Trump
- Joel Brenner: allegations that WH attempted to cover up Trump-Ukraine call records is "deeply troubling"
- Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides
- Kim Jong Un guided test-fire of new “superior tactical” weapon on Saturday: KCNA
- Kim Jong Un inspects submarine that experts fear could carry far-reaching missiles
- Kim Jong Un is pushing his own 'maximum pressure' campaign against Donald Trump with latest missile test, experts say
- Kim Jong Un may have faced ‘domestic hard line pressure’
- Kim Jong Un receives letter from Trump, saying he will seriously contemplate its interesting content
- Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
- Learning to study a painful past
- M Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949
- M. Taylor Fravel on how the People's Liberation Army does military strategy
- MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
- MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
- Mapping urban transport
- Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death
- Military strategy and politics in the PRC
- Missile test site explosion raises questions about US-Russia nuclear competition
- Modi’s definitive win may mean a more assertive India
- NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?
- NATO summit begins amid tensions
- NYT: Saudi Crown Prince said he'd use 'bullet' on Khashoggi
- Narendra Modi v Imran Khan: Who won the war of perception?
- Neocon-led US Venezuela policy, rhetoric trigger deja vu effect
- New images of Kim Jong Un’s horseback ride at a sacred mountain suggest the country’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ will defy Trump
- North Korea conducts second weapons test in under a week
- North Korea conducts ‘crucial test’ as deadline nears
- North Korea could gift the US a long-range missile for Christmas, MIT professor says
- North Korea denies reports of behind-the-scenes talks with US in sharp rebuttal to South Korea's Moon
- North Korea doubts US will have alternative plans inside two weeks
- North Korea escalates missile tests
- North Korea fires ballistic missile, possibly from submarine, days before talks
- North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles. So why won’t Trump use the B word?
- North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test
- North Korea missile tests, ‘very standard’ to Trump, show signs of advancing arsenal
- North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties
- North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon,’ with Kim Jong Un there to observe
- North Korea tested a missile over the weekend. The Trump admin flubbed the response.
- North Korea threatens Japan with 'real ballistic missile'
- North Korea warns it's up to the US to decide what 'Christmas gift' it will get
- North Korea weapons test may have included ballistic missile
- North Korean leader visits sacred mountain as speculation grows of fresh provocation
- North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un's 'Christmas gift' decision
- North Korean missile launch a 'new type of threat,' South Korea says
- North Korea’s improved missile systems spark ‘deadline’ concerns
- North Korea’s new weapons, and how they affect Trump’s nuclear deal hopes, explained
- Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan face off in renewed escalation
- One year on, shadow of Khashoggi’s killing stalks Saudi prince
- Opening the arsenal
- Over 1,000 MIT students, researchers to India in last two decades
- Picture from Washington: Not so rosy on Kashmir
- Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics
- Pompeo visits elite event as Trump policies raise questions
- Relaunched: The new nuclear arms race with Russia
- Revolution in military affairs and India’s defense preparedness
- Richard Samuels on "Special Duty"
- Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates?
- Russian scientist in city near nuclear explosion warns locals not to fish, says agency 'committed a crime'
- SMA debate: Why shouldn’t South Korea pay more for its defense?
- Saudi Arabia again under UN scrutiny as anniversary of Khashoggi killing nears
- Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
- Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back.
- Seoul: North Korea tests short-range projectiles
- Shola Lawal on human rights and social justice
- Sources say
- Special Duty: "Best of Books 2019" by Foreign Affairs
- Special duty
- Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor
- Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program
- Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. But Washington doesn’t seem that bothered.
- Tests and temptations: The nuclear balance in Asia
- The (evolving) art of war
- The BradCast
- The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
- The Cybersecurity 202: SCIF fight shows lawmakers can be their own biggest cybersecurity vulnerability
- The IT and biological technology link
- The North Korean nuclear crisis
- The Russian Navy: A submarine powerhouse?
- The art of no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other
- The difficulty of basing US missiles in Asia
- The importance of academics engaging with policymakers
- The intersection of technology and war
- The media hands Trump a hollow victory on North Korea
- The uncertain role of natural gas in the transition to clean energy
- To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal
- To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s
- Trump administration downplays fears of post-treaty arms race
- Trump agrees to second Kim summit as nuke deal remains elusive
- Trump and Kim exchange letters, but will they meet at DMZ
- Trump and Kim open 2nd nuclear summit
- Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’
- Trump appears to confirm US nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
- Trump appears to contradict Bolton on North Korea, expresses ‘confidence’ in Kim
- Trump blames Iran for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman
- Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim
- Trump offers North Korea's Kim weekend meeting in demilitarized zone
- Trump officials privately bracing for North Korea's next move
- Trump says Kim Jong Un risks losing 'everything' after North Korea claims major test
- Trump says he looks forward to seeing Kim Jong Un 'in the not too distant future'
- Trump says no to eased sanctions, but South Korea's Moon keeps nuclear talks with Kim alive
- Trump steps over North Korean border and into controversial nuclear negotiations
- Trump to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in two weeks for the pair's second summit
- Trump unveils ambitious missile defense plans
- Trump's 'great chemistry' with Kim Jong Un put to test at summit
- Trump's artificial intelligence order lacks funding but not a target — China
- Trump's bizarre claims about Russian invasion of Afghanistan
- Trump, Kim fail to reach agreement in Hanoi after talks abruptly collapse
- Trump-Kim handshake may be meaningless without bridging denuclearization differences
- Trump-Kim talks or not, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal apparently continues to grow
- Trumps whirlwind weekend in Asia
- Trump’s diplomacy with Kim dims as both sides return to hard-line positions
- US imposes first N. Korea-linked sanctions since failed summit
- US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
- US risks emboldening Kim with muted response to missile test
- US still hopes for talks after latest North Korean missile tests
- Understanding populism
- Victim ideology part 1
- Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
- Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure?
- Washington and Seoul postpone military drills in bid to boost stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang
- Watch | ‘No First Use’ in India’s Nuclear Doctrine
- We need to not freak out about the robot revolution
- We should assume Iran is responsible for attacks on oil tankers, says Jim Walsh
- Weakened and unstable Trump gives Korea the jitters
- What 2018 looked like fifty years ago
- What is next after Iran strike called off?
- What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel
- What would a US grand strategy of restraint look like?
- Who left the island? Who got the rose? The Trump-Kim summit played out like a reality show.
- Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet
- Why whistleblower standoff represents a ‘unique juncture’ for US government
- With new North Korea-US talks likely, will a deal result?
- World powers react to Iran exceeding limits in nuclear deal
- “Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor Fravel
- “Active Defense” by Taylor Fravel
- Older
- 'Collective autism' about the costs of war
- A 'Once-in-a-Century' Financial Crisis-Mortgaging the Future: How We Got in This Mess & Why It Could Happen Again
- A conversation with Admiral Fallon
- A eulogy for Pakistan
- A solution for the US-Iran nuclear standoff
- A special report on China's place in the world
- A weakened Ahmadinejad
- Admiral Fallon scans the horizon
- An alliance in need of attention
- An idealist on death row
- Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US, and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
- Book Review Roundtable: Kenneth B. Pyle's Japan Rising and Richard J. Samuels' Securing Japan
- Chappell Lawson on border security
- China's dilemma
- China's response to a rising India
- Cold water from the Taliban
- David Singer on the Greek Euro-tragedy
- Debt crisis highlights I.M.F.'s renewed role
- Egypt: the path forward
- Eugene Skolnikoff: the pioneer of science diplomacy
- Fallon: US needs strategy on China
- Foreign policy and the next US administration
- Fotini on the war in Afghanistan
- GOP whining on military spending cuts
- Get ready to starve
- Grieving over Gaza
- How civil wars evolve
- How cutting Pentagon spending will fix US defense strategy
- How dictators fall
- IMF turmoil unlikely to derail Euro debt talks
- India and America in the strategic times to come
- Interest grows for international Iran atom plant
- Iraq: the human cost
- Is it really a new start for Palestinians?
- Japan after Kan
- Japan after the quake
- Japan disaster may have global economic impact
- Japan's black swan
- Just Jerusalem competition winners
- Just Jerusalem: vision for a place of peace
- Leaderless Jihad: radicalization in the west
- Leaks in all the wrong places
- Lucian W. Pye, bold thinker on Asia, is dead at 86
- Museveni's grip on Uganda
- North-South Korea talks in US serious, but civil
- Q&A with Carl Kaysen
- Q&A with M. Taylor Fravel
- Q&A with Roger Petersen
- Reigniting violence: how do ceasefires end?
- Rights and security: a broad view
- Stand alone: the case for a new isolationism
- Supreme tragedy
- The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
- The President's triumph: Obama gets his man
- The Salafi moment
- The United States, India, and the Gulf: Convergence or Divergence in a Post-Iraq World?
- The case for restraint
- The future of the American frontier
- The lady's leap of faith
- The liberal foreign policy tradition: pluses, problems, and prospects
- The specter of 1979 is haunting the Middle East
- Tokyo's transformation
- Two African women won Nobel Peace Prizes, but the continent still has a long way to go to gender equality
- U.N. women's resolution: an unhappy birthday
- US-Japan relations and a changing Asia
- Unveiling hidden China
- Violence and protests in the Muslim world
- What happened in Basra?
- What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
- When death came hand-delivered
- Where the Arab spring has not yet sprung
- Who's winning the War on Terror?
- Why Japan relies on nuclear power
- With its eye on China, Japan builds up military
- 2023
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- 2023
- 2022
- CIS awards 17 summer study grants
- CIS congratulates the graduates
- CIS honors Robert E Wilhelm ’62, founding supporter of its most distinguished fellowship program
- Call for applications for summer study fellowship and Guillemin prize
- John Tirman Memorial Service
- John Tirman, CIS executive director and scholar, dies at 72
- MIT x TAU webinar series returns for its second year
- The Center's bi-annual magazine is now available
- Understanding the war in Ukraine with MIT SSP
- 2021
- 2020 + 2021 Infinite Mile Award celebration
- Ben Schneider is among MIT's 2021-23 Committed to Caring honorees
- CIS awards 17 summer study grants
- CIS scholars discuss 9/11 at public forums held the day after the attacks through today
- CIS welcomes incoming fellows
- Call for proposals for fellowship program in human rights and technology
- Claude Grunitzky launches TRUE Africa University at MIT with a webinar series
- Congratulations 2021 Political Science graduates!
- Khashoggi fellowships for MIT students
- MISTI alumnus Grace Moore ’20 receives prestigious scholarship to Sciences Po
- Samuel Leiter wins foreign policy essay contest
- Seven students receive Human Rights and Technology Program fellowships
- Solving puzzles of international trade, war, and order
- Undergraduate student receives Carnegie's James C Gaither Junior Fellowship
- 2020
- CIS awards 17 summer study grants
- Call for proposals for fellowship program in human rights and technology
- Distinguished fellow and friend, Yukio Okamoto, felled by Covid-19
- Donald L M Blackmer, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at MIT, dead at 91
- Eight students receive Human Rights and Technology Program fellowships
- Erik Lin-Greenberg joins MIT as assistant professor
- IPL completed 5th annual call for proposals
- In memory of Donald L M Blackmer, 1929-2020
- Lin-Greenberg receives leadership and best dissertation awards
- Luce fellowship deadline Oct 16
- MISTI Covid-19 updates
- MISTI global seed funds program supports global engagement
- MIT challenge: Africa takes on Covid19
- Patricia Gercik memorial fund established
- SHASS Infinite Mile Award recipients in CIS
- Student deadlines for Boren and Carnegie fellowships
- The Center's bi-annual magazine is now available
- 2019
- CIS 2019 fall newsletter
- CIS awards 18 summer study grants
- CIS congratulates the graduates
- CIS hosts consuls general meeting
- CIS spring newsletter
- Call for proposals for fellowship program in human rights and technology
- Fravel testifies before US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
- Human Rights & Technology Fellows announced for 2019-20
- Inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor Suzanne Berger reflects on her research, MIT
- Jeanne Guillemin, sociologist of science and national security
- Luce fellowship deadline Oct 18
- MISTI team receives SHASS Infinite Mile Award
- MIT Center for International Studies January 2020 IAP offerings
- MIT Policy Lab launches MITx course on policy outreach
- Narang receives the ISSS "Emerging Scholar" award
- Oye named member of NIH research advisory committee
- Pat Gercik, visionary manager of the MIT Japan Program and of MISTI
- Policy Lab's Noelle Selin testifys at hearing on “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment”
- SSP Congressional Meeting
- The Notre Dame International Security Center's Lifetime Achievement Award
- University of Regensburg and MIT-Germany expand partnership
- Untangling the social dynamics of water
- Older
- 'Becoming Enemies' emerges from US-Iran project
- 'Deaths of Others' in America's wars
- A conversation with Admiral Fallon
- Anderlini becomes CIS senior fellow
- At Starr Forum, MIT experts assess Japan's crisis
- Avishai on peace and Israel's economy
- BBC journalist joins CIS
- Berger receives French Legion of Honor medal
- Beshimov testifies at commission hearing
- Book talk with Kristof, WuDunn
- Bustani Seminar on Ahmadinejad
- Bustani Seminar: 'Who Speaks for Islam?'
- CIS Advisory Board led by Admiral Fallon
- CIS awards 18 summer study grants
- CIS co-sponsors Gaza symposium
- CIS moves to E40
- CIS releases video: 'Mind, Hand, World'
- CIS remembers Jonathan Tucker
- CIS scholars offer advice to Obama
- CIS shines at MIT 150
- CIS sponsors East Asia working group
- CIS summer study grant
- CIS summer study grant
- CIS/ICAN women's study released to UN
- Carmin helps author IPCC's climate report
- Chomsky on Gaza
- Cold War Cinema series
- Conflict resolution in Jerusalem
- David Miliband joins CIS
- Dolev honored by Israeli consulate
- Experts' call to improve U.S. relations with Iran
- Fallon and Christia on Afghanistan
- Fearless Iranian exile speaks out
- Feldstein on the global economy
- Fellowship for undergraduates
- Fellowship for undergraduates
- Fotini on 'Flipping the Taliban'
- Four 'CIS Students' receive Fulbrights
- Fravel appointed to New National Asia Program
- Gercik coordinates MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
- Gercik wins award
- Graduate funding opportunities
- Grants for research in Brazil
- Harris named Fulbright Scholar
- IAP 2010 offerings
- IUCIM and CIS honor Sharon Stanton Russell
- Immigration, Islam, and the west
- In profile: Kenneth Oye
- Is national security affordable?
- Jerusalem talks conclude with built & civil society
- Joint research on regulatory science
- Joint seminar on South Asian politics
- Journalist from Pakistan joins CIS
- Kaysen, 89, MIT Professor Emeritus
- Kirshner on 'I Live Here'
- Kirshner teaches IAP course
- Lawson named Director of MISTI
- Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 17
- Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 18
- Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 7
- Luce fellowship deadline Oct. 22
- MISTI adds MIT Korea and MIT Russia
- MISTI announces Global Seed Funds winners
- MISTI awards Global Seed Funds
- MISTI helps empower teachers
- MISTI helps put anime on stage
- MISTI interns share global insights
- MISTI partners with MEET
- MISTI turns 25
- MIT announces global strategy
- MIT-France helps advance energy research
- MIT-Germany Seed Fund launched
- MIT-Italy Director receives Italian honors
- Manrique on Colombia
- McKibben on the environment
- Meet the PEGS fellows
- New research on women and security
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