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Sarah Bidgood

Analysis + Opinion

January 19, 2024

Preparing for the uncertain future of US-Russia arms control

Sarah BidgoodPerry World House

Despite their intense rivalry, Washington and Moscow have a long history of successful cooperation to reduce the threats posed by nuclear weapons.

Evan Lieberman, Director, Center for International Studies

précis

January 19, 2024

Director's note

Evan Lieberman reflects on the last few months at CIS after his recent appointment as its new director. He began his term with a look back to the Center’s origins, born of the politics of the Cold War. More than seven decades later, this past continues to echo loudly as we confront a new, arguably much more complex set of realities, he says.

MIT-Africa participants in Ivory Coast

In the News

January 18, 2024

AXIAN Telecom partners with the MIT-Africa Program’s education initiative in Ivory Coast

AXIAN TelecomZawya

The MISTI MIT-Africa program has partnered with AXIAN Telecom to launch a new and empowering Global Teaching Labs initiative in Ivory Coast.

Jim Walsh

In the News

January 18, 2024

Pakistan and Iran launch airstrikes at each other, raising regional tensions

Peter O'DowdWBUR

Peter O'Dowd speaks with SSP senior research associate Jim Walsh about what's at stake in the greater Middle East as Pakistan and Iran take military action against each other.

Kelly Greenhill

In the News

January 18, 2024

Podcast: The weaponization of migration

World Affairs Council of New Hampshire

Kelly M Greenhill, director of the MIT-Seminar XXI Program, discusses the how and why of migration as a "hybrid warfare tactic."

A group of students at a robotics workshop

News@E40

January 16, 2024

Global experiences over IAP

Sabina Van MellCenter for International Studies

Over IAP 2024, MISTI is sending 610 MIT students to nearly 30 locations.

Book covers for Yasheng Huang and Noah Nathan

News@E40

January 11, 2024

The best of books 2023: Foreign Affairs includes both Noah Nathan and Yasheng Huang

Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers selected the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine in 2023. Yasheng Huang's The rise and fall of the EAST: How exams, autocracy, stability, and technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline and Noah Nathan's The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland were among their picks.

Australian researcher Ronald Loughland moved to Abu Dhabi in 1993 as a PhD student who went on to study the mangroves along the Arabian coast. All photos: Dr Ronald Loughland

In the News

January 8, 2024

Planting the seeds of change: How UAE rulers fuelled mangrove growth in the 90s

Anjana SankarThe National

2024 Neuffer Fellow Anjana Sankar discusses Abu Dhabi's long-standing commitment to mangrove conservation and how Australian researcher Ronald Loughland, who played a key role in studying and planting mangroves in Abu Dhabi, highlighted the emirate's significant efforts in increasing mangrove forest area by about 50% between 1990 and 2021.

Megan Li (left) and Mia Hines

In the News

January 4, 2024

Inclusive research for social change

Kaitlin Provencher | Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyMIT News

The MIT Student Research Program pairs underrepresented students with opportunities to examine inequity through the IDSS Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences is the associate director of IDSS and a co-organizer of the initiative.

Chinese military

In the News

December 29, 2023

Podcast: China’s military strategy since 1949

Benjamin Jebb and Alisa LauferModern War Institute

MIT Security Studies Program director M Taylor Fravel joins the Irregular Warfare podcast alongside retired Lieutenant General Charles W Hooper to discuss the history of China's military strategy starting from 1949.

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