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	In the News November 18, 2019 Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’ Steve BenenMSNBC Vipin Narang, an associate professor at MIT who follows the Korean peninsula, summarizing South Korean uncertainty about the US, was quoted saying, “Nothing says I love you like a shakedown.”
	News@E40 November 18, 2019 Jeanne Guillemin, sociologist of science and national security The Center announces today that its longtime colleague Jeanne Guillemin Meselson passed away peacefully at her Cambridge home on November 15. In her memory, the family has requested gifts to be directed to the Jeanne E Guillemin Fund. The fund was created by Dr Guillemin for women scholars at MIT just several months ago.
	In the News November 18, 2019 Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again Laura CarterMIT School of Science For Mgcini "Keith" Phuthi ’19, spending a summer in Africa through MISTI's MIT Africa Program was more than a trip back to his home continent after graduation. It was an opportunity to directly impact national policy regarding education in the country of Sierra Leone.
	In the News November 17, 2019 Washington and Seoul postpone military drills in bid to boost stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang Jesse JohnsonThe Japan Times Vipin Narang quoted: “Kim may see this as weakness, a Trump desperate to get a deal,” he said. “That may lead him to harden his position or miscalculate, on the belief that Trump wants and needs the perception of a ‘win’ more than Kim does. So even if this increases the odds of a working-level meeting, it may decrease the odds of an actual deal.”
	In the News November 15, 2019 Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series Matthew McGovernThe Tufts Daily Research scientist and specialist in Asian security issues Eric Heginbotham spoke at the Cheryl Chase Center in the first installment of the international relations (IR) department’s Applied IR Speaker Series. His talk was focused around wargaming and war simulation, which have developed into integral tools in modern warfare.
	News@E40 November 12, 2019 Human Rights & Technology Fellows announced for 2019-20 In its second year, the Human Rights & Technology Program has awarded seven research fellowships to MIT students, with a total of ten fellows, six undergraduate and four graduate students.
	In the News November 12, 2019 Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter Linda SiegReuters “There is not much left of the post-war constraints. It was under his (Abe’s) administration where the fastest progress was achieved to get more distance from Article 9,” said Richard Samuels, who is heavily quoted in this article.
	In the News November 12, 2019 Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back. Miriam Berger The Washington Post Hala Aldosari quoted: “It’s trying to reshape the regulations and laws inside Saudi Arabia in a way to control public movements,” she said. “The whole idea is trying to control the narrative, making sure that feminism is owned by the state or the agenda-setting power is in the hands of the leadership rather than the women’s activists."
	In the News November 7, 2019 The importance of academics engaging with policymakers MIT News Jonathan Gruber, professor of economic, cites the importance of initiatives like the MIT Policy Lab, which helps academics focus their energy on influencing public policy.
	In the News November 7, 2019 An interview with Dr Scott Sagan and Dr Vipin Narang Conversations on Peaceful Change Conversations on Peaceful Change is a series of interviews initiated by the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC). On this occasion, Dr TV Paul, the Founding Director of GRENPEC and the James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University, interviews Dr Scott Sagan, Caroline SG Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and Dr Vipin Narang, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT on the future of nuclear order.