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	In the News August 22, 2022 Panel: ‘Protracted’ Taiwan Crisis Will ‘Percolate for Months' John GradyUSNI News M Taylor Fravel and Christopher Twomey, alumnus of MIT Political Science, participate in a panel on the military dimensions of the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, hosted by CSIS.
	News@E40 August 21, 2022 John Tirman, CIS executive director and scholar, dies at 72 The Center shares with deep sadness that our valued colleague and dear friend, John Tirman, passed away on the morning of August 19, 2022, after suffering cardiac arrest. Since 2004, Tirman served as the executive director of and principal research scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies. During this time, he was a prolific and thoughtful—but always modest—leader of many of the Center’s initiatives.
	Analysis + Opinion August 19, 2022 The real fallout from the Mar-a-Lago search Steven Simon and Jonathan StevensonPolitico Law enforcement now has to focus on how to prevent the raid from leading to widescale civil breakdown. Analysis by Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson, originally published here in Politico.
	précis August 18, 2022 Activities “War in Ukraine” compendium; CIS awards 17 summer study grants; Inspired by Israel: Arts education, and innovation at MIT; MIT x TAU webinar series returns for its second year; CIS congratulates the graduates; MIT-France celebrates seed fund anniversary; Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar; SSP Wednesday Seminar; Starr Forums.
	Analysis + Opinion August 18, 2022 Do armed drones reduce terrorism? Here’s the data. Joshua A Schwartz and Matthew FuhrmannThe Washington Post New research from Joshua A Schwartz and Matthew Fuhrmann analyzes patterns of terrorism in the 18 countries that utilize drones.
	In the News August 14, 2022 Power, laws, and planning Peter DizikesMIT News Office MIT urbanist Justin Steil studies how law and policy are used to replicate social divisions in the use of land.
	In the News August 14, 2022 International security expert on the threat of Iran plotting to kill Americans on US soil Fox News LiveFox News MIT security studies program's Jim Walsh reacts to officials of the National Council of Resistance of Iran being targeted by Tehran for their anti-regime activism on Fox News Live.
	In the News August 12, 2022 "Why do they hate us?": John Tirman on the dueling myths keeping Iran and the US from getting together Kelley Vlahos and Daniel LarisonCrashing the War Party John Tirman joins the Crashing the War Party podcast to dicuss US-Iran relations.
	In the News August 8, 2022 What-if DC war game maps huge toll of a future US-China war over Taiwan Tony CapaccioBloomberg Quoted: As China waged extensive military exercises off of Taiwan last week, a group of American defense experts (including CIS principal research scientist Eric Heginbotham and recent MIT PhD graduate Mark Cancian) in Washington was focused on their own simulation of an eventual — but for now entirely hypothetical — US-China war over the island. “The results are showing that under most—though not all—scenarios, Taiwan can repel an invasion,” said Cancian, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where the war games are being held. “However, the cost will be very high to the Taiwanese infrastructure and economy and to US forces in the Pacific,” he said. “Taiwan is a large island, and its army is not small,” said Heginbotham. “But from a qualitative standpoint, Taiwan’s army is not at all what it should be, and we have built that into the game. The transition to an all-volunteer military has been botched, and although conscripts remain an important component, the conscripts serve only four months.”
	In the News August 8, 2022 China ends series of live fire military drills around the island of Taiwan Emily FengNPR China says some of the live-fire military exercises in the waters around the island of Taiwan, which were supposed to end last Sunday, will now continue on a regular basis. So far, the drills have disrupted traffic in what's normally a busy international transit point, highlighting how important geopolitically Taiwan is. Taylor Fravel joins NPR to discuss the consequences.