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In the NewsMay 21, 2019Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbookJoshua BerlingerCNN“It seems very clear that at least the President's strategy is to ramp up the temperature with, and pressure on Iran, to get them to renegotiate the JCPOA, which he believes was flawed because it allowed Iran to have a (clearly regionally aggressive) foreign policy and some remnants of a defense capability (i.e. missiles) and sunset clauses on enrichment caps,” said Vipin Narang. |
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In the NewsMay 19, 2019“Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor FravelFrancis P SempaAsian Review of BooksIn his new and informative book Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949, Taylor Fravel, using Communist Party history sources that have only recently become available to outside scholars, reviews the evolution of China’s military strategy since the Communist Party seized power after defeating the Nationalists in the civil war, attempts to identify, explain and categorize the changes in military doctrine, and proposes a general theory of Chinese strategic change. |
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Analysis + OpinionMay 17, 2019Time to pull US nuclear weapons out of TurkeyHarvey M. SapolskyDefense OneStoring nuclear weapons close to trouble is a bad idea, and giving Ankara a shared finger on the nuclear trigger is rapidly losing its charm. |
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In the NewsMay 17, 2019To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’sDavid E. SangerThe New York Times“They were so committed to leaving the deal, because it had been negotiated by the Obama administration, that they did it without thinking through the predictable consequences,” said Vipin Narang. “The old agreement had flaws — many of them,” Mr. Narang said. “But by ripping it up, they opened up a Pandora’s box,” because so many in Iran also had chafed at the deal because of the nuclear production it gave away. |
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News@E40May 16, 2019CIS 2019 spring newsletterprécis, the MIT Center for International Studies newsletter, covers the wide range of Center activities and tracks the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. The spring 2019 issue is now available. |
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News@E40May 16, 2019CIS congratulates the graduatesThe Center congratulates the Class of 2019 from its Security Studies Program. Fiona Cunningham, Reid Pauly, and Ketian Zhang have graduated or are graduating in this commencement cycle. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors. |
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Analysis + OpinionMay 16, 2019Why North Korea is testing missiles againAnkit Panda and Vipin NarangForeign AffairsAfter 522 days without a ballistic missile test, North Korea is at it again. On May 4, two months after the failed Hanoi summit, Pyongyang fired a new type of solid-fuel short range ballistic missile and tested two separate multiple rocket launch systems. |
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News@E40May 16, 2019MIT Policy Lab launches MITx course on policy outreachCenter for International StudiesMIT NewsThe new online course aims to help researchers engage with public policymakers. |
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précisMay 14, 2019Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. His new book, Active Defense, illuminates China's past and present military goals and how the nation sought to achieve them. Featured here is an excerpt from the book. |
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précisMay 14, 2019PhD student Kacie Miura on the domestic roots of Chinese assertivenessAs US-China relations have deteriorated, it has become all too easy to attribute China's foreign policy behavior to hostile or revisionist intentions. Doing so, however, risks exacerbating spiral dynamics that cut to the core of the security dilemma between the two states. |
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