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Kim Tran, Ahmed Dadou, April Julich Perez, and Justin Leahey

News Release

March 2, 2024

New pledge expands MIT-Netherlands Program

Center for International Studies

The Center for International Studies is delighted to announce a new pledge agreement between MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) and the Netherland’s Ministry of Economics and Climate Policy. The agreement was signed on March 1 at a ceremony held at the MIT Museum. 

Death, Dominance, and State-Building,” a new book by MIT Professor Roger Petersen,

In the News

March 1, 2024

A careful rethinking of the Iraq War

Peter DizikesMIT News

The Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Roger Petersen's new book details military operations and political dynamics in Iraq, shedding new light on the challenges of state-building.

Belmont Apartments

In the News

March 1, 2024

Developers got backing for affordable housing. Then the neighborhood found out.

Jason DeParleThe New York Times

Quoted: “A lot has changed in American life over the past 50 years, but the hostility to affordable housing has remained surprisingly durable,” said Justin Steil, associate professor of law and urban planning and steering member of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration

In the News

March 1, 2024

Climate change and military power: Hunting for submarines in the warming ocean

Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, Antonio Ricchi, Aniello Russo, Sandro CarnielTexas National Security Review

Quoted: "In his prominent work Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy, Barry Posen summarizes a widespread view among traditional security studies scholars, noting that there 'might be an argument that such problems [like climate change] strongly affect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, power position, and safety of the United States…[but] this needs to be demonstrated, not assumed.'"

MIT musicians and tour staff with the São Sebastião community

In the News

February 28, 2024

Learning and listening in Amazonia

Talia KhanMIT Technology Review

Talia Khan, a former MISTI MIT-Brazil student, documented their experience returning to the Amazon rainforest with 80 fellow MIT musicians.

Discussion on the impacts of Japan’s National Security Strategy

In the News

February 27, 2024

Japan’s national security strategy: The role of alliance and partnerships

Stimson

Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki, visiting scholar at the MIT Security Studies Program, will discuss on the impacts of Japan’s National Security Strategy on Tokyo’s security cooperation with Washington and other like-minded partners.

Branden Spitzer

In the News

February 23, 2024

Nourishing the mind, hand, and stomach

Angelina ParrilloMIT News

MIT senior Branden Spitzer explains how his love of food and cooking unlocked his interest in materials science and engineering. Through MISTI, Branden has spent time in the UK, Brazil, and South Africa, and is studying in Denmark this semester.

Fake News illustration

In the News

February 23, 2024

How misinformation and disinformation spread, the role of AI, and how we can guard against them

Taylor McNeilTufts Now

Director of the Seminar XXI program, Kelly M Greenhill, shows how to tell the true from the false, and what it means for politics.

Gautam Mukunda and Carol Savietz

In the News

February 23, 2024

Video: Can Ukraine keep up the fight against Russia, two years after the invasion?

GBH News

Carol Savietz, senior advisor for MIT's Security Studies Program, joined Gautam Mukunda to discuss the state of the war after nearly two years, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and hundreds of billions in foreign aid from the US.

Screenshot of Elizabeth Wood

In the News

February 19, 2024

Video: Navalny's widow to carry on his work in Russia

CTV News

Faculty co-director of MIT-Ukraine program Elizabeth Wood speaks on the future of the Russian president election and European sanctions in the context of Alexei Navalny's death.

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