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Arrest of Jack Teixeira

In the News

April 13, 2023

Arrest in leaked classified documents investigation shocks neighbors in Dighton

Michael Yoshida, Caroline Goggin, and Keke Vencill7 News WHDH Boston

Quoted: Speaking with 7NEWS, security expert Barry Posen said the leak was “a really colossal screw up on somebody’s part.”

In the News

April 12, 2023

New book explores last 4 decades of US involvement, failures in Middle East

ABC News

ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with Robert E Wilhelm Fellow Steven Simon about his new book "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East."

Headshot of Dick Samuels

Analysis + Opinion

April 10, 2023

The cost of 'normalcy': Updating Japan's national security

Richard J SamuelsYale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies

Richard J Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, gives the 23rd Annual John W Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies. 

The Department of the Treasure with the Washington Monument in the background

In the News

April 6, 2023

Paying the defense bill: Financing American and Chinese geostrategic competition

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Samuel GerstleTexas National Security Review

Quoted: As Barry Posen writes, “Restraint would contribute to the U.S. economy by saving significant amounts of money, which could be reallocated to restoring the fiscal health of the country, whether that is a short-term or long-term problem.”

President José Maria Neves of Cape Verde

In the News

April 5, 2023

José Maria Neves, president of Cape Verde, tours MIT

Peter DizikesMIT News

The visit featured a public seminar on African governance, as well as meetings with faculty, students, and staff.

In the News

March 30, 2023

India-China border tensions and US strategy in the Indo-Pacific

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

M Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT Security Studies Program, participated in an expert panel discussion on India-China border tensions and US strategy in the Indo-Pacific. 

Student teams working together

In the News

March 29, 2023

Boosting passenger experience and increasing connectivity at the Hong Kong International Airport

Danna LorchMIT News

Recently, a cohort of 36 students from MIT and universities across Hong Kong came together for the MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI), an intense two-week startup boot camp hosted at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node. MEMSI is a collaboration among the MIT Innovation Initiative, the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, and Project Manus.

News@E40

March 21, 2023

PhD students Nicholas Blanchette, Wenyan Deng and Raymond Wang awarded World Politics Statecraft Fellowships

MIT Department of Political Science

Three PhD students from the MIT Security Studies Program were selected for World Politics and Statecraft Fellowships by the Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc. for dissertation research.

Analysis + Opinion

March 16, 2023

You can go home again: A proposal for phased military withdrawal from Iraq and normalizing US–Iraq relations

Steven Simon and Adam WeinsteinQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

US interests in Iraq are derived from an interest in regional stability and impel the continuation of an “advise, assist, and enable” mission in the near term. There is no need, however, to maintain a long–term military presence in the country. 

In the News

March 13, 2023

If Russia goes nuclear, how does the West respond?

Eurasianet

Quoted: Stephen Van Evera voiced fear about the potential for nuclear escalation in Ukraine, saying the “balance of resolve” there is tilting against the United States. 

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