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Faculty from teams in the “Building equity and fairness into climate solutions” category share their thoughts on the need for inclusive solutions that prioritize disadvantaged, minority, and indigenous populations.

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.

Barry Posen archived article image

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.

Protestors holding up a sign that reads: End Systemic Racism

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.

Illustration of Putin with rockets

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.

Green outline of globe with Africa highlighted in red, yellow triangle in background

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.

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.

Damage from a missile in an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25.LYNSEY ADDARIO/NYT

Analysis + Opinion

March 1, 2022

Watching war in real time, one TikTok at a time

Maham JavaidThe Boston Globe

TikTok 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.

Analysis + Opinion

February 28, 2022

Uncovering the strategic aspects of Sino-India ties

Sushant SinghCentre for Policy Research

In 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.

cover of precis magazine

précis

February 28, 2022

The Center's bi-annual magazine is now available

précis, 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.

People walking in front of the Russian Duma building in Moscow, on February 22.Credit...Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA, via Shutterstock

Analysis + Opinion

February 28, 2022

A few members of the Russian Parliament speak out against the war.

Ada PetriczkoThe New York Times

Three 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.  

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