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	In the News January 18, 2024 Pakistan and Iran launch airstrikes at each other, raising regional tensions Peter O'DowdWBUR Peter O'Dowd speaks with SSP senior research associate Jim Walsh about what's at stake in the greater Middle East as Pakistan and Iran take military action against each other.
	In the News January 18, 2024 Podcast: The weaponization of migration World Affairs Council of New Hampshire Kelly M Greenhill, director of the MIT-Seminar XXI Program, discusses the how and why of migration as a "hybrid warfare tactic."
	In the News January 18, 2024 AXIAN Telecom partners with the MIT-Africa Program’s education initiative in Ivory Coast AXIAN TelecomZawya The MISTI MIT-Africa program has partnered with AXIAN Telecom to launch a new and empowering Global Teaching Labs initiative in Ivory Coast.
	News@E40 January 16, 2024 Global experiences over IAP Sabina Van MellCenter for International Studies Over IAP 2024, MISTI is sending 610 MIT students to nearly 30 locations.
	News@E40 January 11, 2024 The best of books 2023: Foreign Affairs includes both Noah Nathan and Yasheng Huang Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers selected the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine in 2023. Yasheng Huang's The rise and fall of the EAST: How exams, autocracy, stability, and technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline and Noah Nathan's The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland were among their picks.
	In the News January 8, 2024 Planting the seeds of change: How UAE rulers fuelled mangrove growth in the 90s Anjana SankarThe National 2024 Neuffer Fellow Anjana Sankar discusses Abu Dhabi's long-standing commitment to mangrove conservation and how Australian researcher Ronald Loughland, who played a key role in studying and planting mangroves in Abu Dhabi, highlighted the emirate's significant efforts in increasing mangrove forest area by about 50% between 1990 and 2021.
	In the News January 4, 2024 Inclusive research for social change Kaitlin Provencher \| Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyMIT News The MIT Student Research Program pairs underrepresented students with opportunities to examine inequity through the IDSS Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences is the associate director of IDSS and a co-organizer of the initiative.
	In the News December 29, 2023 Podcast: China’s military strategy since 1949 Benjamin Jebb and Alisa LauferModern War Institute MIT Security Studies Program director M Taylor Fravel joins the Irregular Warfare podcast alongside retired Lieutenant General Charles W Hooper to discuss the history of China's military strategy starting from 1949.
	Analysis + Opinion December 26, 2023 Billionaire-built cities would be better than nothing Edward L Glaeser and Carlo RattiThe New York Times The Bay Area needs a lot more housing, and we may need privately built cities to get there.
	In the News December 22, 2023 Carlo Ratti named curator of 2025 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition Peter DizikesMIT News Professor of the practice and innovative scholar of urban design and dynamics will oversee leading global showcase for architectural work. Ratti is the faculty director for the MIT-Italy Program.