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In the NewsJanuary 24, 2024Calculating the costs of warKathryn M O'Neill MIT Technology ReviewSecurity Studies Program alum Neta Crawford works to reveal the full cost of military activity to show that the only way to prevent war is through society rejecting armed conflict as an acceptable way to resolve disputes. |
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News@E40January 22, 2024In memory of Lawrence McCrayCenter for International StudiesThroughout his life, Lawrence McCray took paths less traveled |
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Analysis + OpinionJanuary 19, 2024Preparing for the uncertain future of US-Russia arms controlSarah BidgoodPerry World HouseDespite their intense rivalry, Washington and Moscow have a long history of successful cooperation to reduce the threats posed by nuclear weapons. |
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précisJanuary 19, 2024Director's noteEvan Lieberman reflects on the last few months at CIS after his recent appointment as its new director. He began his term with a look back to the Center’s origins, born of the politics of the Cold War. More than seven decades later, this past continues to echo loudly as we confront a new, arguably much more complex set of realities, he says. |
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In the NewsJanuary 18, 2024AXIAN Telecom partners with the MIT-Africa Program’s education initiative in Ivory CoastAXIAN TelecomZawyaThe MISTI MIT-Africa program has partnered with AXIAN Telecom to launch a new and empowering Global Teaching Labs initiative in Ivory Coast. |
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In the NewsJanuary 18, 2024Pakistan and Iran launch airstrikes at each other, raising regional tensionsPeter O'DowdWBURPeter 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. |
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In the NewsJanuary 18, 2024Podcast: The weaponization of migrationWorld Affairs Council of New HampshireKelly M Greenhill, director of the MIT-Seminar XXI Program, discusses the how and why of migration as a "hybrid warfare tactic." |
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News@E40January 16, 2024Global experiences over IAPSabina Van MellCenter for International StudiesOver IAP 2024, MISTI is sending 610 MIT students to nearly 30 locations. |
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News@E40January 11, 2024The best of books 2023: Foreign Affairs includes both Noah Nathan and Yasheng HuangForeign 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. |
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In the NewsJanuary 8, 2024Planting the seeds of change: How UAE rulers fuelled mangrove growth in the 90sAnjana SankarThe National2024 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. |