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	In the News March 11, 2019 A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed. Alex WardVox “If we don’t move off this position, we have nowhere to go,” MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang told me. “There’s no zone of agreement if we insist on everything — I mean everything, complete surrender — up front.”
	Analysis + Opinion March 10, 2019 Trump aside, what’s the US role in NATO? Barry R PosenThe New York Times President Trump has many bad ideas. Reconsidering America’s role in NATO isn’t one of them. NATO’s founding mission has been achieved and replaced with unsuccessful misadventures.
	In the News March 8, 2019 A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks Alex WardVox “Insisting on disarmament as a condition for peace will lead to exactly the opposite of disarmament and peace,” tweeted MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang.
	In the News March 7, 2019 Learning to study a painful past Peter Dizikes MIT News Lerna Ekmekçioğlu studies pioneering Armenian women of the 19th and 20th centuries — and helps other scholars enter her field. Her best-known book is “Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey.” She is an associate professor of history at MIT and a research affiliate of CIS.
	In the News March 7, 2019 Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet Alex WardVox “A satellite launch is in a gray zone but would definitely create problems for the Trump administration,” MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang told me. “It could put us in a pickle,” especially if North Korea hardliners like National Security Adviser John Bolton use the launch to push Trump toward ending nuclear negotiations.
	In the News March 7, 2019 Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship MIT News “This program and others, like our MISTI-MEET program, are opportunities for our students to learn about entrepreneurship, science, and technology and its capacity to create positive change in the Middle East,” said MISTI assistant director David Dolev.
	In the News March 6, 2019 Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics Milan VaishnavHindustan Times Milan Vaishnav (Director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) speaks with Vipin Narang, associate professor of political science at MIT and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Narang is one of the few scholars to have thought deeply about when foreign policy actually matters for domestic politics in India.
	In the News March 5, 2019 Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides Michael Safi and Mehreen Zahra-Malik The Guardian “The advantage of the fog of war, especially in the immediate aftermath of something like this, is that … you can actually sustain contradictory narratives,” said Vipin Narang. And that gives both countries room to claim victory and refrain from further strikes. “This kind of ambiguity can be de-escalatory for the moment. We can litigate the facts once things settle down.”
	Analysis + Opinion March 5, 2019 The Hanoi Summit was doomed from the start Ankit Panda and Vipin NarangForeign Affairs It should come as no surprise that the Hanoi summit between the United States and North Korea ended in failure. The two countries’ incompatible demands made reaching a new agreement—not just on North Korea’s nuclear program but on anything—almost impossible.
	Analysis + Opinion March 5, 2019 Woods Hole, MIT targeted by Chinese hackers Callum Borchers, Paris Alston, Walter WuthmannWBUR The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that MIT and more than two dozen other universities have been targeted by Chinese hackers. Joel Brenner joins as a guest in the conversation exploring what kind of technology the Chinese government might be interested in, and just how vulnerable these research institutions are to cyber attacks.