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In the NewsMay 28, 2020Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI ProgramMichelle EnglishMIT NewsRobert 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. |
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In the NewsMay 28, 2020Amid a pandemic, China picks a border fight with IndiaSadanand DhumeWall Street JournalM 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. |
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In the NewsMay 27, 2020Far from being weakened by coronavirus, China pursues sovereignty claims on all frontsAnna Fifield and Joanna Slater The Washington PostM 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. |
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In the NewsMay 27, 2020Changing balance across LAC trigger for stand-off, says China expert Taylor FravelAnanth KrishnanThe HinduThe 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. |
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In the NewsMay 24, 2020Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrentSimon DenyerThe Washington PostVipin 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. |
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In the NewsMay 22, 2020US pulls out of open skies treatyJeremy HobsonWBUR Here & NowThe 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. |
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In the NewsMay 21, 2020The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black painMichele L Norris The Washington PostEvan 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.” |
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In the NewsMay 21, 2020Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin PrizeMichelle EnglishMIT NewsThe prize, which provides financial support to women working toward a PhD in international affairs, will be applied toward her research into proxy warfare. |
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News ReleaseMay 20, 2020Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program after 20 years of dedicated serviceThe Center for International Studies (CIS) announces today that Robert Art will step down from his role as the director of the Seminar XXI Program effective June 30. Art has directed the CIS Seminar XXI program since 2000. |
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précisMay 20, 2020BriefingsExperts 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. |