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	In the News March 8, 2022 You should be scared Andrian KreyeFeuilleton How do we respond to dystopian images and messages in the news? Roger Petersen contributes his analysis on the war in Ukraine and the weapon of fear.
	Analysis + Opinion March 7, 2022 The ghosts of history haunt the Russia-Ukraine crisis Elizabeth WoodBroadstreet If we want to understand whether Putin has any commitment to these talks, we have to understand the view of both men (and many others) that Ukraine is not now nor should ever be an independent state. And we have to wonder what it means that the man placed in charge of the negotiations from the Russian side has explicitly called the country he is negotiating with a “phantom.”
	News@E40 March 7, 2022 Understanding the war in Ukraine with MIT SSP “Understanding the War in Ukraine” is a special seminar presented by MIT's Security Studies Program held on March 2, 2022. Participants in the panel discussion and subsequent Q&A were: Mariya Grinberg, a professor of Political Science at MIT; Barry Posen, a professor of Political Science at MIT; Carol Saivetz, a special adviser to MIT SSP; Elizabeth Wood, a Russia specialist and professor of History at MIT; moderated by M Taylor Fravel, director of MIT SSP.
	In the News March 6, 2022 Nuclear fears intensify as Ukraine war builds. What is Putin's threshold? Fred GuterlNewsweek Quoted: “If the Russian campaign starts to feel like it's a military catastrophe, that's where escalation to nuclear weapons comes into play,” says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT....“I don't like the discussions I'm hearing from the fringes of the establishment,” says Posen. “I don't like the emotions running hot. I don't like the weird appearance on our side, way too early, of a kind of victory disease: ‘Let's win this thing. Maybe Putin will fall’.”
	In the News March 4, 2022 Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutions MIT News Office A team led by Evan Lieberman, professor of political science and director of the MIT Global Diversity Lab and MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, Danielle Wood, assistant professor in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Siqi Zheng, professor of urban and real estate sustainability in the Center for Real Estate and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, is seeking to reduce ethnic and racial group-based disparities in the capacity of urban communities to adapt to the changing climate.
	Analysis + Opinion March 4, 2022 From 1994: Posen's "A Defense Concept for Ukraine" Barry PosenUkraine: Issues of Security In 1994, SSP professor Barry Posen published "A Defense Concept for Ukraine" in the Russian language journal Ukraine: Issues of Security. Today, for the first time, Posen and SSP are publishing that plan in English. Given the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the apparent sturdiness of Ukrainian defense forces, it is a timely piece of analysis from the twilight of the Cold War.
	In the News March 3, 2022 3 Questions: Fotini Christia on racial equity and data science Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyMIT News A new MIT-wide effort launched by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society uses social science and computation to address systemic racism.
	Analysis + Opinion March 3, 2022 What Putin’s nuclear threats mean for the US Caitlin TalmadgeWall Street Journal Unfortunately for the US, Russia isn’t the only opponent that could use its nuclear arsenal as a shield for conventional aggression against third parties. China is in the midst of modernizing its nuclear forces, building better nuclear weapons in larger numbers than it ever has before.
	In the News March 2, 2022 Q&A: Elizabeth Wood on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine MIT News asked Elizabeth Wood, professor of history at MIT and author of the 2016 book “Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine” (published by the Woodrow Wilson Center and Columbia University Press), to evaluate the situation, as of the beginning of March, slightly less than a week after the invasion began.
	News@E40 March 2, 2022 MIT x TAU webinar series returns for its second year CIS and the MIT Africa Program has partnered with TRUE Africa University (TAU) to host its second annual webinar series focusing on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Starting March 3 for seven weeks on Thursdays at NOON ET, TAU founder, MIT alumnus, and CIS research affiliate Claude Grunitzky, will interview the thinkers, shapers and doers who he sees as the inventors of the future of Africa.