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News ReleaseApril 25, 2023America’s 'Grand Delusion' in the Middle EastNews ReleaseCenter for International StudiesThe culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, “Grand Delusion” is Steven Simon’s tour de force, offering a comprehensive and deeply informed account of US engagement in the Middle East. |
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News@E40April 24, 2023CIS awards 15 summer study grantsFifteen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded summer study grants. Each will receive up to $4,000. Suzanne Freeman and Mariel Garcia-Montes were awarded the fourth annual Guillemin prize. The Center is pleased to support the work of an outstanding and varied cohort from across the Institute. |
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Analysis + OpinionApril 23, 2023Why security assistance often failsRachel Tecott MetzLawfareAround the world, the United States relies heavily on security assistance to gain influence and make its allies more formidable. When actual war breaks out, however, many long-time recipients of such assistance fight poorly or otherwise do not seem to have heeded the lessons that U.S. trainers tried to impart. |
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Analysis + OpinionApril 21, 2023The threat of civil breakdown is realSteven Simon and Jonathan StevensonPoliticoNational security officials are still not prepared for a far-right revolt. |
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In the NewsApril 21, 2023Just like yesterday? New critiques of the nuclear revolutionPaul C AveryTexas National Security ReviewQuoted: "This conceptualization largely includes Barry Posen’s discussion of inadvertent escalation resulting from conventional operations that unintentionally degrade the survivability of an opponent’s nuclear arsenal." |
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In the NewsApril 20, 2023A scathing critique of US Middle East policy, from Carter to BidenAndrew ExumThe Washington PostSteven Simon's merciless new history of American engagement in the Middle East from Jimmy Carter to Joe Biden spares few: In the estimation of the author, no American policymakers, across Republican or Democratic administrations, have much to be proud of. |
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Analysis + OpinionApril 20, 2023The failed “coup-proofing” behind the recent violence in SudanIsaac ChotinerThe New YorkerIsaac Chotiner interviews Mai Hassan, Faculty Director of MIT Africa and Associate Professor of Political Science, about the recent violence in Sudan. |
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In the NewsApril 19, 2023America’s imposition on incompatible Middle East realitiesJohn SawersFinancial TimesJohn Sawers reviews CIS Wilhelm Fellow Steven Simon's newly published book Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, writing that it is "a brilliantly written critique of 45 years of US foreign policy in the Mideast". |
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In the NewsApril 18, 2023The myth of multipolarityStephen G Brooks and William C WohlforthForeign AffairsQuoted: "Consider the capabilities that give the United States what the political scientist Barry Posen has called 'command of the commons'—that is, control over the air, the open sea, and space. Command of the commons is what makes the United States a true global military power." |
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In the NewsApril 18, 2023The forty-year war: How America lost the Middle EastLisa AndersonForeign AffairsSteven Simon's new book Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East offers "a comprehensive, even magisterial review of US policy in the Middle East over the past half century." |
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