News + Media

 
The latest releases from the Center’s faculty, fellows, and scholars

précis

January 26, 2024

Book Review

Learn about the recently published books by the Center’s faculty, fellows, and scholars.

Neta Crawford

In the News

January 24, 2024

Calculating the costs of war

Kathryn M O'Neill MIT Technology Review

Security Studies Program alum Neta Crawford works to reveal the full cost of military activity to show that the only way to prevent war is through society rejecting armed conflict as an acceptable way to resolve disputes.

Headshot of Lawrence McCray

News@E40

January 22, 2024

In memory of Lawrence McCray

Center for International Studies

Throughout his life, Lawrence McCray took paths less traveled

Evan Lieberman, Director, Center for International Studies

précis

January 19, 2024

Director's note

Evan Lieberman reflects on the last few months at CIS after his recent appointment as its new director. He began his term with a look back to the Center’s origins, born of the politics of the Cold War. More than seven decades later, this past continues to echo loudly as we confront a new, arguably much more complex set of realities, he says.

Sarah Bidgood

Analysis + Opinion

January 19, 2024

Preparing for the uncertain future of US-Russia arms control

Sarah BidgoodPerry World House

Despite their intense rivalry, Washington and Moscow have a long history of successful cooperation to reduce the threats posed by nuclear weapons.

MIT-Africa participants in Ivory Coast

In the News

January 18, 2024

AXIAN Telecom partners with the MIT-Africa Program’s education initiative in Ivory Coast

AXIAN TelecomZawya

The MISTI MIT-Africa program has partnered with AXIAN Telecom to launch a new and empowering Global Teaching Labs initiative in Ivory Coast.

Jim Walsh

In the News

January 18, 2024

Pakistan and Iran launch airstrikes at each other, raising regional tensions

Peter O'DowdWBUR

Peter O'Dowd speaks with SSP senior research associate Jim Walsh about what's at stake in the greater Middle East as Pakistan and Iran take military action against each other.

Kelly Greenhill

In the News

January 18, 2024

Podcast: The weaponization of migration

World Affairs Council of New Hampshire

Kelly M Greenhill, director of the MIT-Seminar XXI Program, discusses the how and why of migration as a "hybrid warfare tactic."

A group of students at a robotics workshop

News@E40

January 16, 2024

Global experiences over IAP

Sabina Van MellCenter for International Studies

Over IAP 2024, MISTI is sending 610 MIT students to nearly 30 locations.

Book covers for Yasheng Huang and Noah Nathan

News@E40

January 11, 2024

The best of books 2023: Foreign Affairs includes both Noah Nathan and Yasheng Huang

Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers selected the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine in 2023. Yasheng Huang's The rise and fall of the EAST: How exams, autocracy, stability, and technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline and Noah Nathan's The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland were among their picks.

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