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In the NewsMarch 4, 2022Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutionsMIT News OfficeA 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. |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 4, 2022From 1994: Posen's "A Defense Concept for Ukraine"Barry PosenUkraine: Issues of SecurityIn 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. |
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In the NewsMarch 3, 20223 Questions: Fotini Christia on racial equity and data scienceInstitute for Data, Systems, and SocietyMIT NewsA new MIT-wide effort launched by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society uses social science and computation to address systemic racism. |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 3, 2022What Putin’s nuclear threats mean for the USCaitlin TalmadgeWall Street JournalUnfortunately 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. |
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News@E40March 2, 2022MIT x TAU webinar series returns for its second yearCIS 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. |
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In the NewsMarch 2, 2022Q&A: Elizabeth Wood on Russia’s invasion of UkraineMIT 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. |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 1, 2022Watching war in real time, one TikTok at a timeMaham JavaidThe Boston GlobeTikTok is undoubtedly playing multiple roles in this war. One of which is that the war and its accompanying acts of brutality are being documented and disseminated across the world. |
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Analysis + OpinionFebruary 28, 2022Uncovering the strategic aspects of Sino-India tiesSushant SinghCentre for Policy ResearchIn the third episode of a series, hosted by Sushant Singh (Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research), featuring leading experts on the various facets of Sino-India relations, Taylor Fravel discusses the strategic aspects of Sino-India relations. |
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précisFebruary 28, 2022The Center's bi-annual magazine is now availableprécis, the Center's bi-annual magazine, features essays and the wide range of activities of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. The Fall 2021/Winter 2022 edition is now available online. |
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Analysis + OpinionFebruary 28, 2022A few members of the Russian Parliament speak out against the war.Ada PetriczkoThe New York TimesThree members of Russia’s rubber-stamp Parliament have criticized their country’s war in Ukraine, a rare episode of dissent from within the Russian establishment. |