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In the NewsNovember 6, 2024Has Trump's win cost Ukraine the war? What geopolitics experts thinkNewsweekWith Trump's election, the notion of reversing Russian gains seems utterly implausible. Ukraine may be able to continue to defend most of its remaining territory, with the help of its other allies, but it will get only modest help from the US, says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and a member of the Center’s Security Studies Program. Read more. |
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News@E40November 5, 2024MENA/MIT and MIT-Arab World call for applications for science journalism workshop |
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In the NewsNovember 4, 2024Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyondScott MurrayResearchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at CIS, directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR). |
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In the NewsNovember 1, 2024Israel's latest escalation in Middle East stokes fears of larger regional conflictWBURJim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses Israel's recent airstrikes towards Iran and its implications for the region. |
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In the NewsOctober 28, 2024Areg Danagoulian, faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, is among the recipients of an academic fellowshipAreg Danagoulian, the faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, received the 2024 Forum on Physics and Society Fellowship “for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms control and cargo security, which significantly benefit international security.” |
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In the NewsOctober 25, 2024Stopping the bombKunal Singh, political scientist of the Security Studies Program, identifies a suite of strategies states use to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons. |
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In the NewsOctober 24, 2024World Business Report: The 2024 BRICS SummitMihaela Papa, director of research and principal research scientist at CIS, discusses the 2024 BRICS summit and the group's progress on moving away from the dollar and managing internal conflicts. |
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In the NewsOctober 24, 2024Can Europe really build its own DARPA?Fiona Murray and FrølundEuropean leaders, from Emmanuel Macron to Mario Draghi, have called for the European Union to create its own version of the United States government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But this is not a new idea, and attempted clones on the continent have failed to achieve their full potential. Read the latest from Fiona Murray, faculty director of MIT-United Kingdom. |
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In the NewsOctober 18, 2024Ukraine’s bold Kursk offensive: A turning point or bargaining chip?Carol R. SaivetzFor the Ukrainian president, the Kursk offensive is the first step toward a possible end-game more favorable to Ukraine. With all the unknowns, it is unclear whether his gambit will succeed. |
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In the NewsOctober 15, 2024BRICS and multilateralism: Four dynamics to watch at the Kazan SummitMihaela PapaThe upcoming BRICS summit, which will take place in the Russian city of Kazan from October 22 to 24, 2024, will be a critical test of the group’s capacity to sustain its growth and work toward uniting the countries of the "global majority." To understand the implications of the enlarged BRICS group for Western global governance agendas, Mihaela Papa, director of research and a principal research scientist at CIS, describes the key dynamics to watch |
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