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	In the News November 12, 2024 BRICS in tansition: From the Kazan Summit to Brazil’s 2025 presidency Mihaela PapaEnsured Europe Mihaela Papa, director of research and a principal research scientist at CIS, discusses how BRICS could evolve as Brazil takes on the BRICS presidency in 2025.
	In the News November 7, 2024 Kelly Greenhill on the weaponization of migration Adrian BurtinVox Europe Kelly Greenhill, faculty director of the Center’s Seminar XXI program, speaks on the weaponization of migration, a tactic used by autocratic governments to influence neighbouring countries.
	News@E40 November 5, 2024 MENA/MIT and MIT-Arab World call for applications for science journalism workshop
	In the News November 4, 2024 Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond Scott Murray Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at CIS, directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR).
	In the News November 1, 2024 Israel's latest escalation in Middle East stokes fears of larger regional conflict WBUR Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses Israel's recent airstrikes towards Iran and its implications for the region.
	In the News October 28, 2024 Areg Danagoulian, faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, is among the recipients of an academic fellowship Areg Danagoulian, the faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, received the 2024 Forum on Physics and Society Fellowship “for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms control and cargo security, which significantly benefit international security.”
	In the News October 25, 2024 Stopping the bomb Kunal Singh, political scientist of the Security Studies Program, identifies a suite of strategies states use to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons.
	In the News October 24, 2024 World Business Report: The 2024 BRICS Summit Mihaela Papa, director of research and principal research scientist at CIS, discusses the 2024 BRICS summit and the group's progress on moving away from the dollar and managing internal conflicts.
	In the News October 24, 2024 Can Europe really build its own DARPA? Fiona Murray and Frølund European leaders, from Emmanuel Macron to Mario Draghi, have called for the European Union to create its own version of the United States government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But this is not a new idea, and attempted clones on the continent have failed to achieve their full potential. Read the latest from Fiona Murray, faculty director of MIT-United Kingdom.
	In the News October 18, 2024 Ukraine’s bold Kursk offensive: A turning point or bargaining chip? Carol R. Saivetz For the Ukrainian president, the Kursk offensive is the first step toward a possible end-game more favorable to Ukraine. With all the unknowns, it is unclear whether his gambit will succeed.