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	In the News August 19, 2021 MIT-Japan Program establishes the Patricia Gercik Memorial Fund MIT News The endowed fund will provide supplemental stipends to students seeking internships in Japan. Gercik served as managing director of the MIT-Japan Program for almost three decades and introduced hundreds of MIT students to Japanese culture, history, and in-country internship experiences.
	In the News August 17, 2021 The end of America's post-9/11 delusion David FarisThe Week Barry Posen referenced and quoted: From the wreckage of this embarrassing and enormously consequential 20-year-long failure must emerge a new foreign policy doctrine based on American interests and not American mythology. This doctrine, what the grand strategy theorist Barry Posen calls "restraint" is based, as he argues, on the idea that "the United States is quite secure, due to its great power, its weak and agreeable neighbors, and its vast distance from most of the world's trouble, distances patrolled by the U.S. Navy."
	Analysis + Opinion August 16, 2021 Strait of emergency? Debating Beijing’s threat to Taiwan Rachel Esplin Odell and Eric HeginbothamForeign Affairs Recent articles that warn of the growing risk of Chinese aggression in the Taiwan Strait have become so common that they have created something of an invasion panic in Washington—one that is damaging to both the United States’ and Taiwan’s interests according to Rachel Esplin Odell and Eric Heginbotham
	News Release August 16, 2021 Human rights journalist Ada Petriczko joins CIS as its Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow Petriczko will research topics from her recent reportage, including the rise of Hindu nationalism in India and the stability of democracy in her home country of Poland
	In the News August 10, 2021 North Korea threatens to boost nuclear program ahead of drills between US and ‘perfidious’ South Min Joo Kim and Simon DenyerThe Washington Post Quoted: “I would likely interpret it — in the broader context — to be the overall nuclear deterrent and posture,” said Vipin Narang, an MIT professor who specializes in nuclear strategy. Pyongyang last carried out a nuclear test in 2017, but it has tested ballistic missiles as recently as March.
	Analysis + Opinion August 9, 2021 The Taliban has seized more cities, despite US efforts to build a strong Afghan military. What happened? Rachel TecottThe Washington Post Persuading partners to emulate the US military approach doesn’t necessarily work, new research finds. Rachel Tecott explains in this opinion piece.
	Analysis + Opinion August 6, 2021 The transatlantic relationship: Radical reform is in the US national interest Barry R PosenThe Hague Centre for Strategic Studies The North Atlantic Alliance is now over 70 years old and much has changed since its birth. The United States role in the alliance, its interests and how best to pursue them, are due for a serious reconsideration and Barry Posen argues that the Biden Administration should look carefully at US interests in Europe and the threats to those interests.
	Analysis + Opinion August 3, 2021 Commercial satellites — not US intelligence — revealed China’s missile program Theo Milonopoulos and Erik Lin-Greenberg The Washington Post The proliferation of commercial satellites has upended a near-monopoly on government intelligence gathering. And this also means leaders now have less freedom — both politically and strategically — to handle this kind of news.
	In the News August 3, 2021 Kim Jong-un health fears: Mystery spot and bandage appear on back of NK leader's head Steven BrownExpress Quoted: Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at MIT, added that "if [the sudden weight loss] is due to a health condition though, the jockeying for his succession may already be happening behind the scenes, and that volatility could be trouble for the outside world" if he were to pass away.
	In the News July 30, 2021 Apekshya Prasai receives 2021 Jeanne Guillemin Prize Michelle EnglishMIT News The award, supporting women pursuing doctorates in security studies, will help the PhD candidate investigate the dynamics of women’s participation in conflict.