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	In the News May 28, 2020 Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program Michelle EnglishMIT News Robert Art is stepping down as director of the Seminar XXI Program, a post-graduate education program in the national security arena that has inspired graduates to apply the compelling insights of social science to the most pressing challenges of our times.
	In the News May 28, 2020 Amid a pandemic, China picks a border fight with India Sadanand DhumeWall Street Journal M Taylor Fravel quoted: M Taylor Fravel, a political scientist and China expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says "putting the border dispute in a box" has been "the great success of the India-China relationship." No soldier has died on the boundary since 1975.
	In the News May 27, 2020 Far from being weakened by coronavirus, China pursues sovereignty claims on all fronts Anna Fifield and Joanna Slater The Washington Post M Taylor Fravel quoted: The recent flare-up along the “line of actual control,” which has marked the unofficial border between China and India since they fought a war in 1962, prompted a response from President Trump. “We have informed both India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute,” he tweeted Wednesday.
	In the News May 27, 2020 Changing balance across LAC trigger for stand-off, says China expert Taylor Fravel Ananth KrishnanThe Hindu The spark for the current stand-off with China, with the ongoing face-off situations in the Galwan River valley, Pangong Lake and other areas, is the increasing infrastructure competition along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), says M Taylor Fravel.
	In the News May 24, 2020 Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrent Simon DenyerThe Washington Post Vipin Narang quoted: MIT professor Vipin Narang called the statement “alarming.” “I have no idea what this means but I am sure we won’t like it,” he tweeted.
	In the News May 22, 2020 US pulls out of open skies treaty Jeremy HobsonWBUR Here & Now The United States is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty, the third major security accord the Trump Administration has scuttled. Host Jeremy Hobson speaks with security analyst Jim Walsh to explain the situation and talk about the potential consequences.
	In the News May 21, 2020 The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain Michele L Norris The Washington Post Evan Lieberman quoted: “It is not difficult to imagine that if covid-19 comes to be understood as a ‘Black’ epidemic,” he wrote, “this will create false impressions for many white Americans — in the United States’ racially polarized and effectively segregated society — that the virus is ‘not our problem,’ leading to decreased demand for and compliance with public health directives.”
	In the News May 21, 2020 Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize Michelle EnglishMIT News The prize, which provides financial support to women working toward a PhD in international affairs, will be applied toward her research into proxy warfare.
	précis May 20, 2020 Briefings Experts rethink national security in the era of pandemics; Robert Art retires as director of Seminar XXI; Sara Plana receives Jeanne Guillemin Prize; Yukio Okamoto, distinguished diplomat and fellow, felled by Covid-19; Africa takes on Covid-19; and Pandemic insights from iGEM conference.
	News Release May 20, 2020 Sara Plana is the inaugural recipient of the Jeanne Guillemin Prize Sara Plana, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Jeanne Guillemin Prize at the Center for International Studies (CIS). The prize provides financial support to women studying international affairs and was endowed at CIS by the late Jeanne Guillemin.