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      • 2020
        • 4 things that will happen if Kim Jong-un died
        • America and China have hampered peace progress on the Korean peninsula
        • An ode to the humble balcony
        • Beware of Latvians bearing gifts
        • Can the democrats avoid Trump’s China trap?
        • China’s sovereignty obsession
        • Coronavirus halts street protests, but climate activists have a plan
        • Courting war
        • Covid-19 pandemic news stories
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        • Deal-making during the coronavirus pandemic
        • Do pandemics promote peace?
        • Does the global pandemic open new South China Sea opportunities for Beijing? Not really.
        • Don’t classify the FYDP; Budget transparency helps allies, taxpayers
        • Europe has kept down pandemic unemployment--and the US hasn’t. Here’s why.
        • Fireflies have a mating problem: The lights are always on
        • Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly
        • How Donald Trump should handle China's growing power
        • How coronavirus will affect the US military
        • How digital contact tracing slowed Covid-19 in East Asia
        • Important Iraqi archives are now back in Baghdad. Where were they, and what happens now?
        • India's Pangong pickle: New Delhi's options after its clash with China
        • Insights from the After iGEM biosecurity policy conference
        • Integrating emerging technology in multinational military operations: The case of artificial intelligence
        • Iraqi protesters will likely push forward despite violence
        • It’s high time we fought this virus the American way
        • Mike Pompeo criticized China for not respecting its neighbors territorial integrity
        • Pandemic politics: How the Future Strategy Forum amplifies the expertise of women
        • Samuels summarizes "Special Duty" in Ambassador Brief
        • Seven bad options to counter state sponsorship of proxies
        • Temperatures at a Florida-size glacier in Antarctica alarm scientists
        • Tension high, altitude higher: Logistical and physiological constraints on the Indo-Chinese border
        • The Middle East in an era of great power competition
        • The inspector general’s badge of honor
        • Training the Covid-19 cohort: Adapting and preserving social science research
        • Trump and Modi will meet in India this week; here's what to expect
        • Trump’s peace plan is a paradigm shift
        • Tweak ocean ecosystems? Maybe not, study says.
        • Unconditional: The Japanese surrender in World War II
        • Unearthing the stories of yesterday's George Floyds
        • We lead three universities. It’s time for drastic action.
        • Why are China and India skirmishing at their border? Here’s 4 things to know.
        • Yemen's proxy wars explained
      • 2019
        • After terrorist attack in Kashmir, will India seek vengeance or de-escalation?
        • Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?
        • Baghdadi’s martyrdom bump
        • China is not an enemy
        • End the ‘Global Gag Rule’
        • Even conservative Iranians want closer ties to the United States
        • Exporting the American dream
        • Great power competition
        • How Donald Trump pushed Iran to the bomb
        • India’s counterforce temptations: strategic dilemmas, doctrine, and capabilities
        • Iraqi protesters demand constitutional change. Can they make it happen?
        • Is a new nuclear age upon us?
        • It is long past time to stop expanding NATO
        • Its monarchy has left Saudi Arabia fragile and unbalanced
        • Japan whack-a-mole foreign policy
        • Jaw–Jaw: A look at the PLA's history of planning for war with Taylor Fravel
        • Learning to embrace an unequal alliance
        • National borders don't stop in the physical world – they're in cyberspace too
        • North Korea and America’s second summit
        • Opinion: Saudi money in US horse racing is the sports next moral jam
        • Russia might regret the US drawdown in Syria
        • Saudi Arabia must dismantle the male guardianship system
        • Serbian journalists are under attack. Does the international community care?
        • The 'new Cold War' with China is way overblown. Here's why.
        • The Hanoi Summit was doomed from the start
        • The Hanoi Summit – we asked Se Young Jang what happens next in US-North Korea relations
        • The ever-evolving importance of Japan’s coast guard
        • The geography of Gulenism in Turkey
        • The role of Iraq’s influential Shiite clerics is changing. Here’s how.
        • The year of living dangerously with nuclear weapons
        • Time to pull US nuclear weapons out of Turkey
        • Tirman featured at “Tyranny Comes Home” symposium
        • Trump aside, what’s the US role in NATO?
        • Trump wants a safe zone in Syria. Is that even possible?
        • Trump's asylum policy is a death sentence for Africans fleeing violence
        • US-China relationship guidelines
        • US–South Korea military negotiations could cost the alliance
        • What digital nerds and bio geeks have to worry about
        • Why India wants to break its decades-old nuclear pledge
        • Why North Korea is testing missiles again
        • Winning the nuclear game against North Korea
        • Winning the nuclear game against Putin’s Russia
        • With trophy hunting, wildlife loses
        • Woods Hole, MIT targeted by Chinese hackers
        • ‘No first use’ nuke policy isn’t dead, but losing sanctity
      • 2018
        • A #MeToo movement in China
        • A new military strategy for Japan
        • An adolescent's foreign policy
        • An agenda for Japanese military reform
        • As Europe revisits wartorn times, Trump lays a minefield
        • Authoritarian nostalgia among Iraqi youth
        • Between two Caesars: The Christians of northern Iraq
        • Calm down, folks: Enemies still fear US military tech innovation
        • Diplomacy without denuclearization: North Korea in 2018
        • Does America need a space force?
        • Déjà vu? 'Global Britain' versus the continental commitment
        • Election insights: on reducing gun violence
        • How is Japan dealing with a volatile United States?
        • Japan’s pivot in Asia
        • Keep the Iran deal — 10 good reasons why
        • More and more, overseas Chinese fear the long arm of Beijing
        • North Korea is a nuclear power. Get used to it.
        • North Korea's nuclear program isn't going anywhere
        • President Reif, cut MIT’s ties to Saudi Arabia now!
        • Renaming Macedonia in the age of nationalism
        • South Africa's healthy Democracy: Why Zuma's resignation is a good sign
        • Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
        • The GSDF is taking to the waves, but should it?
        • The Trump administration’s new ‘Iran Action Group’ won’t work — for these 3 reasons
        • The Trump-Kim Summit and the truth about North Korean denuclearization
        • The future of the US military commissions: legal and policy issues
        • The origins of America's gun obsession
        • The price paid by journalists who break the cycle of repression
        • The rise of illiberal hegemony
        • There are signs North Korea is still working on its nuclear program. Here’s why ‘denuclearization’ is so problematic.
        • This 9/11, end the Afghanistan War
        • Time for General Mattis to move on
        • Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He’s wrong on both.
        • Want NATO allies to boost defense spending? Don’t build Fort Trump
        • What can we learn from North Korea’s successful nuclearization?
        • What just happened? Experts break it down
        • Who to blame for the protests in Basra, Iraq?
        • Why North Korea and Iran get accused of nuclear collusion
        • Why ethnic nationalism still rules Bosnia, and why it could get worse
        • Would US leaders push the button? Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
        • ‘Fire and Fury’ shows Trump’s shifts on China
      • 2017
        • Ai Weiwei: The enemy of walls
        • Beijing’s cruel eviction of its migrant workers
        • China, a model for gender equality? The reality would say otherwise
        • China’s delicate dance with ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘dotard’
        • Command and control in North Korea: What a nuclear launch might look like
        • Danger at Dolam
        • Deadly Overconfidence: Trump thinks missile defenses work against North Korea, and that should scare you
        • Guess who we don’t talk about these days? Iran
        • Is it time for our dealmaker in chief to talk with North Korea?
        • Is war coming to North Korea?
        • It's time to make Afghanistan someone else's problem
        • Making sense of Trump’s travel ban
        • North Korea ICBM: A new missile and a new era
        • North Korea won't be solved without South Korea
        • North Korea, Trump, and strategic stability
        • Nuclear stability, conventional instability: North Korea and the lessons from Pakistan
        • Protecting America from cyber attacks
        • Revisit NIH biosafety guidelines
        • Should you be worried about North Korea?
        • Smartening up Japan's defenses
        • Some of the top political science journals are biased against women. Here’s the evidence.
        • Syria Showdown: will Trump be pressured into putting Turkey first, America second?
        • The US will keep losing wars until it decides what it stands for
        • The price of war with North Korea
        • Trump and Xi forge a friendship with a frightening edge
        • Trump intervened with Xi on UCLA players. But what about human rights activists?
        • Trump’s military budget minus a plan
        • Turkish referendum rallies in Europe made headlines. Did they affect election results?
        • US-Japan Relationship: Past, Present, and Future
        • Welcome to the H-Bomb Club, North Korea
        • What Next For Kurdistan?
        • What political science tells us about the risk of civil war in Spain
        • Why India did not ‘win’ the standoff with China
        • Why Kim Jong Un wouldn’t be irrational to use a nuclear bomb first
        • Why Zimbabwe's military abandoned Mugabe
        • Will Tokyo’s arms exports help or hurt US interests in Asia?
        • Women will soon be issuing fatwas in Saudi Arabia. This isn't as groundbreaking as you'd think.
      • 2016
        • Confusion is risky
        • Here are 4 reasons that South Africa’s ANC lost ground in this month’s elections
        • How to get China to use its leverage against North Korea
        • How to think about Russia
        • Impose an arms embargo in South Sudan
        • North Korea ramps up nuclear readiness
        • Reports of saving the Pentagon billions are just fake news
        • Sanders’ surge is part of a growing global movement
        • Saudi allies sever ties with Iran
        • South Asian nuclear tensions: Back to core issues
        • The End of the Commonwealth
        • The Wall and the Ban: Can Trump really accomplish either
        • The lines that have been crossed
        • The strategic implications of the South China Sea tribunal’s award
        • Why Zimbabwe's military sticks with Mugabe
      • Older
        • Outrage over the culture of rape in India
        • '24' on the brain
        • 'Talk to my eyes, not to my chest'
        • 100,000 dead in Iraq
        • A blind eye to justice in Cambodia
        • A floundering WTO
        • A focus on facts ought to dispel mistrust of US Muslims
        • A new Cold War with Iran?
        • An inspiration against nuclear arms
        • Diversifying Iraqi security forces
        • Don't put nuclear waste on military bases
        • Double-speak on missile defense
        • Draft lessons from Europe
        • Europe cannot advance on two fronts
        • Fighting blind in Iraq
        • Flawed military model, made in the USA
        • Foreseeing a bloody siege in Baghdad
        • Forget the draft: fix the volunteer force and they will come
        • Generations have been decimated; who will be left to rebuild the nation?
        • Gujarat: a plea and a proposal
        • Gunning for reform
        • Hegemon down
        • Impunity from My Lai to Abu Ghraib
        • In Iraq, the losses Americans don't see
        • It is time for the military to live within its means
        • Japan's Jujitsu leader
        • Japan's shifting strategic discourse
        • Making the cuts, keeping the benefits
        • Many hidden costs line national security path
        • Mexico's dangerous political chasm
        • More troops for what?
        • México visto desde fuera: democracia en perspectiva
        • México visto desde fuera: los límites de la democracia
        • No to Africa command
        • One island, divided
        • Paying the costs in Iraq
        • Political polarization will strengthen Mexican democracy
        • Redeploy the dollars
        • Strategy for the terror war
        • Surge could push troops to breaking point
        • Syria’s red line
        • The caste system- India's apartheid?
        • The changing face of Chinese diplomacy
        • The heavy price of censorship
        • The inspections flap: both sides are wrong
        • The more muscular Japan
        • The politics of chicken littleism
        • The risks of staying vs. leaving Iraq
        • The rogue that plays by the rules
        • The violence of development
        • Transatlantic crisis will hurt arms industry
        • UN credibility at stake
        • US has window to skip weapon generation
        • Use of chemical weapons could be Syria’s ‘bloody crescendo’
        • Violence in Iraq
        • We can live with a nuclear Iran
        • Weighing the cost of today's defense strategy
        • Why believe it this time?
    • Books
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      • Asia-Pacific Crisis Simulations
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      • The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition
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      • Buying national security: how America plans and pays for its global role and safety at home
      • CIS turns 60
      • Chinese anti-Japan protests
      • Civil-military relations under President Trump
      • Claiming the state
      • Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
      • Cyberpolitics in international relations
      • Deaths of others
      • Democratic insecurities: violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti
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      • Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
      • Firms and the state in Chinese overseas investment
      • Global financial crisis
      • Hidden atrocities: The Tokyo trial
      • Insurgent organizational structure
      • Japan's dance with the dragon and the bear
      • Japan's democratic party strives for normalcy
      • Learning to be capitalists
      • Making in America
      • Much ado about decline
      • Nosy Neighbors: Regional Interference in Great Power Interventions
      • Not in your backyard: understanding state action against violent non-state actors
      • Nuclear strategy in the modern era
      • Publicity-driven accountability in China
      • Roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
      • Selective leviathans
      • Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
      • Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
      • The cult of the persuasive: The organizational origins of US strategy in military assistance
      • The dictator's army
      • The domestic roots of Chinese assertiveness
      • The other side of the COIN
      • The pioneering role of CIS in American war gaming
      • The right to kill?
      • Thinking clearly about China's economic statecraft
      • Threat Perception and Immigration Reform in the United States
      • Trump's Victory: What Does It Mean for You?
      • US control of the commons in a US–China conflict
      • Under duress: The effects of wartime economic isolation
      • Western intervention in the Balkans
      • What kind of capitalism?
      • What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
      • Why clerics turn deadly
      • Why do violent substate conflicts spread?
      • precis Interview: Anat Biletzki
      • precis Interview: Eric Heginbotham
      • precis Interview: James E Baker
      • precis Interview: John Tirman
      • precis Interview: Lourdes Melgar
      • precis Interview: Lourdes Melgar
      • précis Interview: Admiral Scott Swift
      • précis Interview: Ben Ross Schneider
      • précis Interview: Chappell Lawson
      • précis Interview: Chappell Lawson
      • précis Interview: Cindy Williams
      • précis Interview: David Miliband
      • précis Interview: Diane Davis
      • précis Interview: Fotini Christia
      • précis Interview: Frank Gavin
      • précis Interview: Hala Aldosari
      • précis Interview: JoAnn Carmin
      • précis Interview: Joel Brenner
      • précis Interview: Paul Heer
      • précis Interview: Philip Khoury
      • précis Interview: R David Edelman
      • précis Interview: Regina Bateson
      • précis Interview: Richard Nielsen
      • précis Interview: Vipin Narang
  • Events + Seminars
    • Starr Forum
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      • Event Archive
        • 2020
          • Starr Forum: Amazon Burning: The Ghost of Climate Future?
          • Starr Forum: America’s Civil-Military Crisis
          • Starr Forum: Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the 21st Century
          • Starr Forum: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
          • Starr Forum: From Principles to Implementation: The Challenge of AI Policy Around the World
          • Starr Forum: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
          • Starr Forum: Policing in America and Beyond
          • Starr Forum: Rethinking National Security in the Age of Pandemics
          • Starr Forum: Russia's Putin: From Silent Coup to Legal Dictatorship
          • Starr Forum: Russia’s Information War on America
          • Starr Forum: The Philosophy of Human Rights
          • Starr Forum: Violence Against Women and Girls: The Case of Saudi Arabia
          • Starr Forum: When Culture Meets Covid-19
          • Starr Forum: Where Powers Live
        • 2019
          • MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
            • MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
          • Starr Forum: Abolish ICE?
            • Starr Forum: Abolish ICE?
          • Starr Forum: America’s Immigration Dilemma
          • Starr Forum: Digital Feminism: Case-studies from the Arab Gulf States
          • Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace
            • Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace
          • Starr Forum: Iran Reframed
          • Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery
            • Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery
          • Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
            • Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
          • Starr Forum: The Global Rise of Populism
          • Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad
          • Starr Forum: The Madhouse Effect
            • Starr Forum: The Madhouse Effect
        • 2018
          • 70 Years: Israel-Palestine – Reflections & Forecasts
            • 70 Years: Israel-Palestine – Reflections & Forecasts
          • Starr Forum: Artificial Intelligence and National Security Law: A Dangerous Nonchalance
            • Starr Forum: Artificial Intelligence and National Security Law: A Dangerous Nonchalance
          • Starr Forum: Citizenship under attack
            • Starr Forum: Citizenship Under Attack
          • Starr Forum: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
          • Starr Forum: Is Democracy Dying?
            • Starr Forum: Is Democracy Dying?
          • Starr Forum: Pachinko
            • Starr Forum: Pachinko
          • Starr Forum: The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
            • Starr Forum: The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
          • Starr Forum: The Rise of Populism
            • Starr Forum: The Rise of Populism
          • Starr Forum: The Uncondemned
          • Starr Forum: The Uncounted: Civilian victims of America’s wars
            • Starr Forum: The Uncounted: Civilian victims of America’s wars
          • Starr Forum: US-Russian Relations: What's Next?
            • Starr Forum: US-Russian Relations: What's Next?
          • Starr Forum: Women's Empowerment: Are Global Development Organizations Helping or Hurting?
            • Starr Forum: Women's Empowerment: Are Global Development Organizations Helping or Hurting?
        • 2017
          • Starr Forum: Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil's Assertive Foreign Policy
          • Starr Forum: Amour
          • Starr Forum: Behavioral Science and Nudges: Environmental Protection and Sustainability
          • Starr Forum: Brexit, Europe, and Trump
            • Starr Forum: Brexit, Europe, and Trump
          • Starr Forum: Caché
          • Starr Forum: Digital Innovation and Africa
          • Starr Forum: National Security & Civil Liberties: 1942 & 2017
          • Starr Forum: North Korea
            • Starr Forum: North Korea
          • Starr Forum: Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate, Political Climate
            • Starr Forum: Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate, Political Climate
          • Starr Forum: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
            • Starr Forum: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
          • Starr Forum: Solving America's and China's North Korea Problem?
          • Starr Forum: Somaliland (Sneak Preview)
          • Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
            • Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
          • Starr Forum: The Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
          • Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon
            • Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon
          • Starr Forum: The White Ribbon
          • Starr Forum: US & Mexico in the Trump Era
          • Starr Forum: Warnings
            • Starr Forum: Warnings
        • Older
          • Starr Forum: "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" Book Talk with Kai Bird
          • Starr Forum: Forced Labor in the Global Economy
          • Starr Forum: Enemies of the People
          • Starr Forum: Peace Meals
          • Starr Forum: "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War" Book Talk with Andrew Bacevich
          • Starr Forum: 30th Anniversary of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration
          • Starr Forum: A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon, Former Head of CENTCOM
          • Starr Forum: A Conversation with Kanan Makiya
          • Starr Forum: A Report Card on the War on Terror
          • Starr Forum: A US Invasion of Iraq: Consequences and Scenarios
          • Starr Forum: A special event with the Boston Review "Debating the Future of US Foreign Policy"
          • Starr Forum: Afghanistan
          • Starr Forum: Afghanistan: Mending It Not Just Ending It
          • Starr Forum: Africa Rebooted
          • Starr Forum: Allah's Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror
          • Starr Forum: American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack
          • Starr Forum: An American in China
          • Starr Forum: Arab Spring and its Impact on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
          • Starr Forum: Attack of the Drones:
          • Starr Forum: Beyond a Militarized Approach to Terrorism: Experience from Sri Lanka
          • Starr Forum: Book Talk: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
          • Starr Forum: Border Security in the 21st Century
          • Starr Forum: Brazil, 50 Years After the Coup
          • Starr Forum: Bringing King to China (and MIT) a film screening
          • Starr Forum: Can Democracy Survive in the Middle East?
          • Starr Forum: Chomsky on Gaza
          • Starr Forum: Climate Security: A conversation with Denmark's Ambassador to the US
          • Starr Forum: Cold War Cinema
          • Starr Forum: Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis | The Exhibit
          • Starr Forum: Death of the News?
          • Starr Forum: Dissolving War: Women as Peacemakers
          • Starr Forum: Documented
          • Starr Forum: Don't Be an American Idiot
          • Starr Forum: Egypt's Revolution
          • Starr Forum: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
          • ADVANTAGE: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge
          • BUDRUS
          • Cambodian Dream: Rebuilding Cambodia by Empowering its Women
          • Sovereign Debt and the IMF: The case of Russia
          • Starr Forum: China, the US and the Worldwide Search for Energy Security
          • Starr Forum: Film Series 2008: Women and the Middle East
          • Window to My World 4: Winds of Change in Galilee
          • Starr Forum: Foreign Policy and the Next US Administration: America's Defining Moment
          • Starr Forum: Fostering Global Citizenship: Future Scientists on Science in an Age of Terrorism
          • Starr Forum: Haiti: Moving Forward After Failed Transitions
          • Starr Forum: Healthcare Policy and the Next US Administration
          • Starr Forum: Hidden Battles
          • Starr Forum: How to Start a Revolution
          • Starr Forum: Immigration, Islam, and the West
          • Starr Forum: Implications of an Avian Flu Pandemic
          • Starr Forum: In Between: A One Man Show In Between by Ibrahim Miari
          • Starr Forum: Indian Ocean: The vortex of destiny
          • Starr Forum: Inequality and Instability
          • Starr Forum: Inside Tahrir Squar
          • Starr Forum: Iran, North Korea and the Second Nuclear Age
          • Starr Forum: Iran: Images from Beneath a Chador
          • Starr Forum: Iraq and North Korea: A Former Insider Assesses US Policy
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        • 'PLA was acting with higher approval'
        • 'War and disease travel together': Why the pandemic push for a global cease-fire is gaining ground
        • 3 Questions: Fotini Christia on new deal-making in Afghanistan
        • A forum for female voices in international security
        • A look at the national security challenges facing the US in 2020
        • A road map for artificial intelligence policy
        • A watershed moment in India-China relations, says MIT's Vipin Narang
        • After Iran strikes back, President Trump indicates a de-escalation
        • America’s allies are becoming a nuclear-proliferation threat
        • America’s invasion of Iraq fuelled militant Islam
        • America’s problem is much bigger than TikTok
        • Amid a pandemic, China picks a border fight with India
        • Asia greets US shift on South China Sea with hope and doubt
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        • Beyond the spectacle: What global think tanks think about NaMoste Trump
        • Changing balance across LAC trigger for stand-off, says China expert Taylor Fravel
        • China Flexes Territorial Muscle – Recent India border clash signals risk Beijing will take in approach to disputes, experts say
        • China and India agree to ‘disengage troops’ in Himalayas
        • China fires missiles into South China Sea as US sanctions Beijing
        • China fires missiles into South China Sea, sending US a message
        • China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley
        • China may double its nuclear arsenal in just 10 years. Don’t panic.
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        • China's modern military strategy in historical perspective
        • China’s military provokes its neighbors, but the message is for the United States
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        • Did the killing of Qassim Suleimani deter Iranian attacks, or encourage them?
        • Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91
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        • Fact-checking Tom Cotton's claims about the coronavirus
        • Far from being weakened by coronavirus, China pursues sovereignty claims on all fronts
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        • Modi denies any Indian territory was lost in China clash
        • Modi finds neighbors silent as India-China tensions simmer
        • Modi says China isn’t occupying Indian territory after clash
        • N Korea fires projectiles, after 'momentous' retaliation threat
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        • North Korea seen expanding rocket launch facility it once promised to dismantle
        • North Korea signals end of nuclear-test suspension, promises 'new' weapon
        • Oil prices surge after US attack kills senior Iran military chief
        • Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
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        • Report: Boston minority communities hit hardest by evictions
        • Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program
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        • Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize
        • Saudi Arabia 'planned to spy on Khashoggi's fiancee in UK'
        • Saudi Arabia runs squalid, abusive jails for women disowned by their male guardians — a forgotten chapter in its rush to champion women’s rights
        • Secret Tibetan military force raises stakes in India-China clash
        • Shining a light on the quantum world
        • Spies being left exposed in the digital age
        • Study: State-level adoption of renewable energy standards saves money and lives
        • The 2 most controversial national security items in Trump’s new budget
        • The 9/11 Commission Report, the pandemic and the future of Homeland Security
        • The Galwan Valley clash and China’s approach to sovereignty disputes
        • The Japanese intelligence community & espionage
        • The rumors of Kim Jong Un’s “grave” illness, explained
        • The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain
        • Tibet’s shadow looms over Himalayan stand-off
        • Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked
        • Trump administration’s move on visas is ‘dream-crashing’ for Indian students and families
        • Trump slams China’s pattern of aggression
        • Trump wages a war on watchdogs as coronavirus elevates their importance
        • Trump’s inaccurate statements about the conflict with Iran
        • Trump’s ‘highly unusual’ politicization of government watchdogs
        • Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrent
        • Two years after Trump-Kim meeting, little to show for personal diplomacy
        • US military deploys new type of nuclear weapon seen as key to countering Russia
        • US pulls out of open skies treaty
        • US says most of China’s claims in South China Sea are illegal
        • US tells foreign students with online classes to go, universities look at options
        • What Trump's visit means for India?
        • What do the IG firings say about American democracy?
        • What's the path forward on Iran?
        • When culture clashes with Covid-19
        • Where is Kim Jong Un?
        • Who is Mohammad bin Salman?
        • Why do banking crises occur?
        • Why the Beirut blast created a mushroom cloud
        • Why the confusion about Kim Jong Un's health actually makes sense
        • Will the Covid-19 pandemic change national security?
        • Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?
        • Xi’s obsession to look strong amid domestic discontent likely reasons for China’s rogue behaviour, say experts
      • 2019
        • 'The clock is ticking': A year on from the Singapore summit Kim Jong Un is losing patience with Donald Trump's strategy
        • 1 big thing: No deal in Hanoi
        • 3 Questions: Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
        • 3Q: John Tirman on a new US human rights commission
        • A brief history of intelligence whistleblowing
        • A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
        • A look at US national security after Bolton's departure
        • A look at the fallout from the Jamal Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia
        • A month after G20, Trump's Asia policy achievements appear to be unraveling
        • A nuclear world with Vipin Narang
        • A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks
        • A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed.
        • A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy
        • AI meets bureaucratic politics
        • Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter
        • Africa insiders: Tiny Gambia stands up for the Rohingya
        • After Trump and Kims handshake, what comes next in US-North Korean talks
        • After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
        • All things policy: talking nukes with Vipin Narang
        • Amazing event North Korea lauds Trump-Kim meeting at border
        • An interview with Dr Scott Sagan and Dr Vipin Narang
        • Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?
        • As North Korea doubles down on its nuclear weapons, Trump and the US are stuck with ‘strategic patience’
        • At the Center for International Studies, a student endowment for women in international affairs
        • BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J Samuels
        • Best/worst cases for Trump-Kim II
        • Billions dead: That's what could happen if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war
        • Book Review: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since1949
        • Burna Boy, Timini Egbuson amongst others win big at TFAA 2019
        • Chaguan | A chained dragon
        • China says the US is undermining global stability
        • Chinese and Iranian hackers renew their attacks on US companies
        • Civilians evacuated from last ISIS-held village in Syria
        • Co-designing assistive technologies in India
        • Commerce and coercion
        • Could someone actually steal a US nuke?
        • Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
        • Delhi denies asking Trump to mediate Kashmir dispute
        • Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no.
        • Disbelief, joy and resistance as Saudi women get first passports
        • Dueling investigations? Days before inspector general's report on FBI's Russia investigation, Trump promotes AG probe
        • Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
        • Ep 124: Nuclear war, deterrence and peace
        • Even for a limited nuclear deal, North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief
        • Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
        • Failed Russian nuclear test hints at Putin's dangerous plans to beat US defenses
        • Fast, low and hard to stop: North Korea’s missile tests crank up the threat level
        • Foreign Affairs reviews “Special Duty”
        • Former NSA inspector: whistleblower does not need firsthand information
        • Former inspector general on Trump & republicans attacking the whistleblower
        • From focus to forgotten: Why no N Korea spotlight at UN?
        • GOP lawmakers invited to WH today
        • Greater Boston: Vindman testifies about Trump's Zelensky call and Volker revises his testimony
        • Group of former intelligence community watchdogs call for protecting whistleblowers
        • Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series
        • Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer
        • How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
        • How Pakistan is playing Washington—again
        • Impeachment spotlights vulnerability of acting federal watchdogs
        • Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections
        • India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon
        • India says committed to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons for now
        • India slips further behind China during first five years of Modi
        • India weighs military options against Pakistan as Kashmir tensions rise
        • India, Pakistan exchange fire
        • India–Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead?
        • India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites
        • Intelligence reforms: time for a Japanese James Bond
        • Iran denies US claims about drone attack
        • Iran says it has exceeded uranium limits set in 2015 nuclear deal
        • Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook
        • Iran will stop complying with some parts of US nuclear deal
        • Is Boston a cloud security hub
        • Is India “creatively reinterpreting” its no-first-use policy?
        • Is the US about to lower the bar for North Korea denuclearisation?
        • Is the US inching closer to war with Iran?
        • Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
        • It’s clearer than ever that the US’s North Korea policy is in total chaos
        • Japanese report to say North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads
        • Japanese spies, once renowned, have fallen on hard times
        • Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76
        • Jeanne Guillemin, who exposed Soviet anthrax lab, dies at 76
        • Joel Brenner comments on whistleblower issue
        • Joel Brenner on whistleblower & Trump
        • Joel Brenner: allegations that WH attempted to cover up Trump-Ukraine call records is "deeply troubling"
        • Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides
        • Kim Jong Un guided test-fire of new “superior tactical” weapon on Saturday: KCNA
        • Kim Jong Un inspects submarine that experts fear could carry far-reaching missiles
        • Kim Jong Un is pushing his own 'maximum pressure' campaign against Donald Trump with latest missile test, experts say
        • Kim Jong Un may have faced ‘domestic hard line pressure’
        • Kim Jong Un receives letter from Trump, saying he will seriously contemplate its interesting content
        • Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
        • Learning to study a painful past
        • M Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949
        • M. Taylor Fravel on how the People's Liberation Army does military strategy
        • MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
        • MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
        • Mapping urban transport
        • Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death
        • Military strategy and politics in the PRC
        • Missile test site explosion raises questions about US-Russia nuclear competition
        • Modi’s definitive win may mean a more assertive India
        • NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?
        • NATO summit begins amid tensions
        • NYT: Saudi Crown Prince said he'd use 'bullet' on Khashoggi
        • Narendra Modi v Imran Khan: Who won the war of perception?
        • Neocon-led US Venezuela policy, rhetoric trigger deja vu effect
        • New images of Kim Jong Un’s horseback ride at a sacred mountain suggest the country’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ will defy Trump
        • North Korea conducts second weapons test in under a week
        • North Korea conducts ‘crucial test’ as deadline nears
        • North Korea could gift the US a long-range missile for Christmas, MIT professor says
        • North Korea denies reports of behind-the-scenes talks with US in sharp rebuttal to South Korea's Moon
        • North Korea doubts US will have alternative plans inside two weeks
        • North Korea escalates missile tests
        • North Korea fires ballistic missile, possibly from submarine, days before talks
        • North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles. So why won’t Trump use the B word?
        • North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test
        • North Korea missile tests, ‘very standard’ to Trump, show signs of advancing arsenal
        • North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties
        • North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon,’ with Kim Jong Un there to observe
        • North Korea tested a missile over the weekend. The Trump admin flubbed the response.
        • North Korea threatens Japan with 'real ballistic missile'
        • North Korea warns it's up to the US to decide what 'Christmas gift' it will get
        • North Korea weapons test may have included ballistic missile
        • North Korean leader visits sacred mountain as speculation grows of fresh provocation
        • North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un's 'Christmas gift' decision
        • North Korean missile launch a 'new type of threat,' South Korea says
        • North Korea’s improved missile systems spark ‘deadline’ concerns
        • North Korea’s new weapons, and how they affect Trump’s nuclear deal hopes, explained
        • Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan face off in renewed escalation
        • One year on, shadow of Khashoggi’s killing stalks Saudi prince
        • Opening the arsenal
        • Over 1,000 MIT students, researchers to India in last two decades
        • Picture from Washington: Not so rosy on Kashmir
        • Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics
        • Pompeo visits elite event as Trump policies raise questions
        • Relaunched: The new nuclear arms race with Russia
        • Revolution in military affairs and India’s defense preparedness
        • Richard Samuels on "Special Duty"
        • Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates?
        • Russian scientist in city near nuclear explosion warns locals not to fish, says agency 'committed a crime'
        • SMA debate: Why shouldn’t South Korea pay more for its defense?
        • Saudi Arabia again under UN scrutiny as anniversary of Khashoggi killing nears
        • Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
        • Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back.
        • Seoul: North Korea tests short-range projectiles
        • Shola Lawal on human rights and social justice
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        • Special Duty: "Best of Books 2019" by Foreign Affairs
        • Special duty
        • Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor
        • Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program
        • Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. But Washington doesn’t seem that bothered.
        • Tests and temptations: The nuclear balance in Asia
        • The (evolving) art of war
        • The BradCast
        • The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
        • The Cybersecurity 202: SCIF fight shows lawmakers can be their own biggest cybersecurity vulnerability
        • The IT and biological technology link
        • The North Korean nuclear crisis
        • The Russian Navy: A submarine powerhouse?
        • The art of no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other
        • The difficulty of basing US missiles in Asia
        • The importance of academics engaging with policymakers
        • The intersection of technology and war
        • The media hands Trump a hollow victory on North Korea
        • The uncertain role of natural gas in the transition to clean energy
        • To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal
        • To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s
        • Trump administration downplays fears of post-treaty arms race
        • Trump agrees to second Kim summit as nuke deal remains elusive
        • Trump and Kim exchange letters, but will they meet at DMZ
        • Trump and Kim open 2nd nuclear summit
        • Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’
        • Trump appears to confirm US nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
        • Trump appears to contradict Bolton on North Korea, expresses ‘confidence’ in Kim
        • Trump blames Iran for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman
        • Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim
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Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program

Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program
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