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- Starr Forum: February 08; March 08; April 08, 2008 CIS Film Series 2008: Women and the Middle East
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- MIT-Italy brings "Roberto Rocca Project" to MIT
- Melgar named Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow
- New book details key changes in the staffing of western militaries
- Outspoken Iranian human rights activist joins MIT Center for International Studies as a visiting scholar
- PHRJ Fellow Miriam Zoll, co-founder of "Take Our Daughters to Work Day," on protection of orphans and women's economic rights
- Persian Gulf Initiative to commence with April 6-7 conference
- Professor Barry Posen becomes Director of the MIT Security Studies Program
- Promoting peace, the Just Jerusalem competition
- Samuels named finalist for Lionel Gelber Prize
- Six-nation study finds promises on women’s security unmet
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- As trash avalanche toll rises in Ethiopia, survivors ask why
- Brenner on Russian hacking effort
- CIA scrambles to contain damage from WikiLeaks documents
- Crisis in Syria
- FBI prepares for new hunt for WikiLeaks’ source
- Former NSA inspector general on “US-Russian cybersecurity unit”
- Guess who we don’t talk about these days? Iran
- Guillemin on the sarin attack in Syria
- Halting intelligence
- How political science contributes to national policies on immigration and military conflict
- India may abandon its 'no first use' nuclear policy
- India, long at odds with Pakistan, may be rethinking nuclear first strikes
- It's time to make Afghanistan someone else's problem
- Justin Steil on the Trump administration travel ban
- MIT report to combat cyber threats
- MIT's experts in Asian security
- Making sense of Trump’s travel ban
- Mexico’s energy reform
- North Korea ICBM: A new missile and a new era
- North Korea, Trump, and strategic stability
- Patching the electric grid
- Rex Tillerson, in Japan, says US needs ‘different approach’ to North Korea
- Smartening up Japan's defenses
- Strike on Syria is defensible but problematic
- Syria Showdown: will Trump be pressured into putting Turkey first, America second?
- The US will keep losing wars until it decides what it stands for
- Trump's cyber tweets cause dismay, confusion
- Trump's intel bashing
- US and Mexico: What’s the way forward?
- Vipin Narang: On the brinkmanship beat
- Walsh on North Korea nuclear issues
- Why US antimissile system in South Korea worries China
- Will Tokyo’s arms exports help or hurt US interests in Asia?
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- Brazil's crisis moment
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- Collaborating with peers across disciplines
- Confusion is risky
- From Turkey to Nice, looking at safety and stability around the globe
- Here are 4 reasons that South Africa’s ANC lost ground in this month’s elections
- How political science helps combat terrorism
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- Immigration and terrorism
- It's all in our heads
- Japan’s pivot from Obama to Trump
- Mass atrocity Monday, 6/6/2016: Tiananmen Square
- NATO has problems, but Trump won’t fix them
- Obama's visit To Hiroshima is 'about memory, more than it's about apology'
- On the Putinization of politics
- Reports of saving the Pentagon billions are just fake news
- The End of the Commonwealth
- The US defense budget: Too big, too small or just right?
- The Wall and the Ban: Can Trump really accomplish either
- Why Zimbabwe's military sticks with Mugabe
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- 3 Qs: Jim Walsh on the elusive US-Iran nuclear treaty
- 3 Qs: Kenneth Oye on genetic engineering
- A farewell to arms
- From conflict, cooperation
- From warheads to cheap energy
- Genetically engineering almost anything
- Is Japan back?
- John Tirman on the warming US-Iran relationship
- Knowing the enemy
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- Russian weapons removal & the cold war backpack bomb
- The new industrial espionage
- Ukraine: part of America's 'vital interests'?
- What falling oil prices and new US sanctions mean for Russia
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- China and Japan in the East China Sea
- Empowering women in Afghanistan
- For a new approach to Iran
- How should we use our intelligence?
- Japan's shifting strategic discourse
- Letting opportunity slip away
- Lifting of sanctions will take a few years
- Syria’s red line
- What really drives civil wars?
- When the world changed
- Why China and India probably won't clash over border dispute
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- 'Collective autism' about the costs of war
- A 'Once-in-a-Century' Financial Crisis-Mortgaging the Future: How We Got in This Mess & Why It Could Happen Again
- A conversation with Admiral Fallon
- A eulogy for Pakistan
- A solution for the US-Iran nuclear standoff
- A special report on China's place in the world
- A weakened Ahmadinejad
- Admiral Fallon scans the horizon
- An alliance in need of attention
- An idealist on death row
- Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US, and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
- Book Review Roundtable: Kenneth B. Pyle's Japan Rising and Richard J. Samuels' Securing Japan
- Chappell Lawson on border security
- China's dilemma
- China's response to a rising India
- Cold water from the Taliban
- David Singer on the Greek Euro-tragedy
- Debt crisis highlights I.M.F.'s renewed role
- Egypt: the path forward
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