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- Beyond the spectacle: What global think tanks think about NaMoste Trump
- Biden cabinet picks signal a big shift from the Trump era
- Biden says US is back at the head of the table
- Changing balance across LAC trigger for stand-off, says China expert Taylor Fravel
- China Flexes Territorial Muscle – Recent India border clash signals risk Beijing will take in approach to disputes, experts say
- China and India agree to ‘disengage troops’ in Himalayas
- China fires missiles into South China Sea as US sanctions Beijing
- China fires missiles into South China Sea, sending US a message
- China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley
- China may double its nuclear arsenal in just 10 years. Don’t panic.
- China now trying to put ‘genie back in bottle’
- 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
- News@E40
- 2023
- A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
- CIS Summer Study Fellowship call for applications
- CIS awards 15 summer study grants
- CIS congratulates 2023 graduates
- CIS welcomes Weiner family for exhibit tour
- PhD students Nicholas Blanchette, Wenyan Deng and Raymond Wang awarded World Politics Statecraft Fellowships
- 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
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