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2023
A better way to protect free speech on campus
As Blinken visits Israel amid violence, US confirms drone attacks on Iran
Biden is about to have his hands full in the Middle East
Can you sanctions-proof a government?
Did the unipolar moment ever end?
HR 3202: Analyzing legislative efforts to block Arab engagement with Syria
Is Saudi-Israeli normalization worth it?
Japan takes another step toward expanding defense exports
Japan, China hold Foreign Minister call days after NATO chief’s visit
Kishida’s trip to Middle East focuses on energy, defense cooperation
Lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Nuclear war theory: Continuity and change
Pushing on an open door: Japan’s evolutionary security posture
Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia after the invasion of Ukraine
Russia's rebound
Rwanda plan is in legal limbo, but history shows such migration deals are unlikely to disappear
Sudan’s generals are dragging the country toward disaster
The cost of 'normalcy': Updating Japan's national security
The failed “coup-proofing” behind the recent violence in Sudan
The myth of Chinese diversionary war
The real intervention Haiti needs
The threat of civil breakdown is real
Ukraine Has a Breakthrough Problem
Why security assistance often fails
Why we believe the US still has the upper hand in a war over Taiwan
With Visits to Sri Lanka, Maldives, Japan Seeks to Shore up Indian Ocean Presence
You can go home again: A proposal for phased military withdrawal from Iraq and normalizing US–Iraq relations
2022
A few members of the Russian Parliament speak out against the war.
A major Ukrainian internet provider reports a cyberattack.
After Abe, Japan tries to balance ties to the US and China
Aid organizations say they are seeing signs of trafficking of people fleeing Ukraine.
As Brazil’s election day approaches, fear of violence grows
Attacking Russia in Ukraine means war
Bolsonaro and Lula are heading to second round in Brazil election
Boots on the ground, eyes in the sky
CIS mourns the loss of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Can Russia and the West survive a nuclear crisis in Ukraine?
Causing crisis works
China and India need to reimagine what is possible on the border
China's COVID protests are powerful, but they cannot challenge Xi Jinping's regime
Do armed drones reduce terrorism? Here’s the data.
Enhancing strategic stability in Southern Asia
Five books that illuminate the agony and uncertainty of civilians caught in wars
For this border crisis, Poles extend a warm welcome, unlike last time.
Four EU countries expel dozens of Russian diplomats suspected of espionage.
From 1994: Posen's "A Defense Concept for Ukraine"
Here’s what Western leaders need to remember about Zelensky’s emotional appeals
History as it happens: Invisible carnage
How the killing of Iran’s top general squandered US leverage in Iraq today
How the war complicates Biden's Iran diplomacy
How the war in Ukraine could get much worse
How to avoid a war over Taiwan
Hypotheses on the implications of the Ukraine-Russia War
In Poland, protesters demand a ban on road cargo traffic between the EU and Russia and Belarus.
Kishida Becomes First Japanese PM to Attend NPT Review Conference
Letting go of Afghanistan: Presidents Biden and Trump were right
Let’s not grant Saudi Arabia a blank check for American support
Major flip in Iraqi government this week: could crisis be over?
Moqtada al-Sadr, called on his bluff, retreats for now
More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from areas near Kyiv and the city of Sumy.
NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe has been building rapidly.
NPT conference collapse, military drills further strain Japan-Russia relations
Pentagon says Poland’s fighter jet offer is not ‘tenable.’
Poland will propose a NATO peacekeeping mission for Ukraine at the alliance’s meeting this week.
Putin’s misleading hairsplitting about who can join NATO
Republicans will quit any nuclear deal with Iran, scholar predicts
Reviving war-game scholarship at MIT
Russia, Ukraine, and European security
Russian forces abducted four Ukrainian journalists, a union says.
Sanctions won't end Russia's war in Ukraine
Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
Should the United States pledge to defend Taiwan?
The American conspiracy against Pakistan that never existed
The Falklands War at 40: A lesson for our time
The Russian sanctions regime and the risk of catastrophic success
The Russo-Ukrainian war’s dangerous slide into total societal conflict
The UN has documented at least 3,924 Ukrainian civilian deaths in the war.
The clashing narratives that keep the US and Iran at odds
The dawn of drone diplomacy
The ghosts of history haunt the Russia-Ukraine crisis
The latest round of sanctions on Russia
The new Iraqi PM is a status quo leader, but for how long?
The real fallout from the Mar-a-Lago search
The rewards of rivalry: US-Chinese competition can spur climate progress
The risk of Russian chemical weapons use
There is no NATO open-door policy
These disunited states
Think COVID has stunted growth? Try 30 years of conflict.
To prevent war and secure Ukraine, make Ukraine neutral
US public prefers diplomacy over war on Ukraine
Ukraine needs solutions, not endless war
Ukraine war
Ukraine war revives anxiety about nuclear conflict
Ukraine: Three divergent stands, three scenarios
Ukraine: Unleashing the rhetorical dogs of war
Ukraine’s celebrities are dying in the war, adding an extra dimension to the nation’s shock.
Ukraine’s implausible theories of victory
Uncovering the strategic aspects of Sino-India ties
Watching war in real time, one TikTok at a time
We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone
We need to think the unthinkable about our country
What Putin’s nuclear threats mean for the US
What ever happened to our fear of Armageddon?
What is America's interest in the Ukraine war?
What to expect from Biden’s big Middle East trip
When migrants become weapons
Why Putin went straight for the nuclear threat
Why the US wants a ban on ASAT missile testing
Xi broke the social contract that helped China prosper
2021
A Middle East Forum can help Biden succeed
A liberal case for seapower?
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!
After the apocalypse: US nuclear policy
America’s Alliances: Achieving Common Ends
Beyond forever war
Can Europe defend itself?
Can the world change course on climate?
China and India are pulling back from the brink. They’ve created a buffer zone and started talks.
China’s nuclear arsenal is growing. What does that mean for US-China relations?
Commercial satellites — not US intelligence — revealed China’s missile program
Don't count your submarines before they're built
Don't knock yourself out: How America can turn the tables on China by giving up the fight for command of the seas
Don’t sink the nuclear submarine deal
Freedom of navigation operations: A mission for unmanned systems
How Americans' views of the military have changed over 20 years
How Japan is falling short
How can we neutralize the militias?
How not to win allies and influence geopolitics
How the US could really help Haiti
In Europe's new humanitarian crisis, border security is prioritized over human rights
India’s farm protests turned violent last week. But why are farmers protesting in the first place?
Is US foreign policy too hostile to China?
Is Washington right to leave Afghanistan?
Morocco ‘weaponized’ migration to punish Spain. That’s more common than you think.
Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa won't be silenced
Politicians aren’t usually saints. But Pope Francis just put one on the path to sainthood.
Private eyes in the sky
Public-private partnerships key to providing high-quality broadband to all
Russia: A problem, not a threat
Russia’s new crises on the periphery
Sole purpose is not no first use: Nuclear weapons and declaratory policy
Strait of emergency?
The Taliban has seized more cities, despite US efforts to build a strong Afghan military. What happened?
The Texas abortion law has an Eastern European ring to it
The transatlantic relationship: Radical reform is in the US national interest
The world needs to quit oil and gas. Africa has an idea: Rich countries first.
There is no legal way to stop Trump from ordering a nuclear strike if he wants to, expert says
US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained
US-China first strike showdown: Rising nuclear tensions
Underplaying the China threat
Want to fix the Border Patrol? Don't carbon-copy the playbook to reform police
What is nuclear China up to?
Why America can’t build allied armies
Why Iran may be in no hurry to get nuclear weapons even without a nuclear deal
Why conservatives turned on the US military
Will America ever reckon with the human cost of the Afghanistan War?
2020
4 things that will happen if Kim Jong-un died
America and China have hampered peace progress on the Korean peninsula
An ode to the humble balcony
Beware of Latvians bearing gifts
Can the democrats avoid Trump’s China trap?
China’s sovereignty obsession
Coronavirus halts street protests, but climate activists have a plan
Courting war
Covid-19 pandemic news stories
Covid-19 pandemic news stories
Deal-making during the coronavirus pandemic
Do pandemics promote peace?
Does the global pandemic open new South China Sea opportunities for Beijing? Not really.
Don’t classify the FYDP; Budget transparency helps allies, taxpayers
Europe can defend itself
Europe has kept down pandemic unemployment--and the US hasn’t. Here’s why.
Fireflies have a mating problem: The lights are always on
Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly
How Donald Trump should handle China's growing power
How coronavirus will affect the US military
How digital contact tracing slowed Covid-19 in East Asia
Important Iraqi archives are now back in Baghdad. Where were they, and what happens now?
India's Pangong pickle: New Delhi's options after its clash with China
Insights from the After iGEM biosecurity policy conference
Integrating emerging technology in multinational military operations: The case of artificial intelligence
Iraqi protesters will likely push forward despite violence
Is it time for a grand strategy of restraint? A debate
It’s high time we fought this virus the American way
Mike Pompeo criticized China for not respecting its neighbors territorial integrity
Pandemic politics: Covid-19 and grand strategy
Pandemic politics: Covid-19 and the US military
Pandemic politics: How the Future Strategy Forum amplifies the expertise of women
Samuels summarizes "Special Duty" in Ambassador Brief
Seven bad options to counter state sponsorship of proxies
Temperatures at a Florida-size glacier in Antarctica alarm scientists
Tension high, altitude higher: Logistical and physiological constraints on the Indo-Chinese border
The Middle East in an era of great power competition
The future of the Iran nuclear deal
The inspector general’s badge of honor
Training the Covid-19 cohort: Adapting and preserving social science research
Trump and Modi will meet in India this week; here's what to expect
Trump’s peace plan is a paradigm shift
Tweak ocean ecosystems? Maybe not, study says.
Unconditional: The Japanese surrender in World War II
Understanding US-China strategic competition
Unearthing the stories of yesterday's George Floyds
Vipin Narang on the global nuclear landscape: hype and reality
We lead three universities. It’s time for drastic action.
What the nuclear ban treaty means for America's allies
Why are China and India skirmishing at their border? Here’s 4 things to know.
Why we can’t be friends with our allies
Yemen's proxy wars explained
2019
After terrorist attack in Kashmir, will India seek vengeance or de-escalation?
Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?
Baghdadi’s martyrdom bump
China is not an enemy
End the ‘Global Gag Rule’
Even conservative Iranians want closer ties to the United States
Exporting the American dream
Great power competition
How Donald Trump pushed Iran to the bomb
India’s counterforce temptations: strategic dilemmas, doctrine, and capabilities
Iraqi protesters demand constitutional change. Can they make it happen?
Is a new nuclear age upon us?
It is long past time to stop expanding NATO
Its monarchy has left Saudi Arabia fragile and unbalanced
Japan whack-a-mole foreign policy
Jaw–Jaw: A look at the PLA's history of planning for war with Taylor Fravel
Learning to embrace an unequal alliance
National borders don't stop in the physical world – they're in cyberspace too
North Korea and America’s second summit
Opinion: Saudi money in US horse racing is the sports next moral jam
Russia might regret the US drawdown in Syria
Saudi Arabia must dismantle the male guardianship system
Serbian journalists are under attack. Does the international community care?
The 'new Cold War' with China is way overblown. Here's why.
The Hanoi Summit was doomed from the start
The Hanoi Summit – we asked Se Young Jang what happens next in US-North Korea relations
The ever-evolving importance of Japan’s coast guard
The geography of Gulenism in Turkey
The role of Iraq’s influential Shiite clerics is changing. Here’s how.
The year of living dangerously with nuclear weapons
Time to pull US nuclear weapons out of Turkey
Tirman featured at “Tyranny Comes Home” symposium
Trump aside, what’s the US role in NATO?
Trump wants a safe zone in Syria. Is that even possible?
Trump's asylum policy is a death sentence for Africans fleeing violence
US-China relationship guidelines
US–South Korea military negotiations could cost the alliance
What digital nerds and bio geeks have to worry about
Why India wants to break its decades-old nuclear pledge
Why North Korea is testing missiles again
Winning the nuclear game against North Korea
Winning the nuclear game against Putin’s Russia
With trophy hunting, wildlife loses
Woods Hole, MIT targeted by Chinese hackers
‘No first use’ nuke policy isn’t dead, but losing sanctity
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Outrage over the culture of rape in India
'24' on the brain
'Talk to my eyes, not to my chest'
100,000 dead in Iraq
A blind eye to justice in Cambodia
A floundering WTO
A focus on facts ought to dispel mistrust of US Muslims
A new Cold War with Iran?
An inspiration against nuclear arms
Diversifying Iraqi security forces
Don't put nuclear waste on military bases
Double-speak on missile defense
Draft lessons from Europe
Europe cannot advance on two fronts
Fighting blind in Iraq
Flawed military model, made in the USA
Foreseeing a bloody siege in Baghdad
Forget the draft: fix the volunteer force and they will come
Generations have been decimated; who will be left to rebuild the nation?
Gujarat: a plea and a proposal
Gunning for reform
Hegemon down
Impunity from My Lai to Abu Ghraib
In Iraq, the losses Americans don't see
It is time for the military to live within its means
Japan's Jujitsu leader
Japan's shifting strategic discourse
Making the cuts, keeping the benefits
Many hidden costs line national security path
Mexico's dangerous political chasm
More troops for what?
México visto desde fuera: democracia en perspectiva
México visto desde fuera: los límites de la democracia
No to Africa command
One island, divided
Paying the costs in Iraq
Political polarization will strengthen Mexican democracy
Redeploy the dollars
Strategy for the terror war
Surge could push troops to breaking point
Syria’s red line
The caste system- India's apartheid?
The changing face of Chinese diplomacy
The heavy price of censorship
The inspections flap: both sides are wrong
The more muscular Japan
The politics of chicken littleism
The risks of staying vs. leaving Iraq
The rogue that plays by the rules
The violence of development
Transatlantic crisis will hurt arms industry
UN credibility at stake
US has window to skip weapon generation
Use of chemical weapons could be Syria’s ‘bloody crescendo’
Violence in Iraq
We can live with a nuclear Iran
Weighing the cost of today's defense strategy
Why believe it this time?
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3 Q: Richard Samuels on Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster and its impact 10 years later
A World Bank Refresh
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A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
Active defense: China's military strategy since 1949
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Buying national security: how America plans and pays for its global role and safety at home
CIS turns 60
Center for International Studies honors Robert Wilhelm
Chinese anti-Japan protests
Civil-military relations under President Trump
Claiming the state
Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
Cyberpolitics in international relations
Deaths of others
Defining Success and Mapping the Road Ahead for Public-Private Partnership and Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Democratic insecurities: violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti
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Fear and a pattern of political killing in Russia
Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
Firms and the state in Chinese overseas investment
From South Africa, a success story for democracy
Give but also take: China’s Covid-19 vaccine aid
Global financial crisis
Global policy advice for President Biden
Grand delusion: The rise and fall of American ambition in the Middle East
Hidden atrocities: The Tokyo trial
How elite American university networks affect access to venture capital in Africa
Insurgent organizational structure
Is an armed conflict imminent?
Japan's dance with the dragon and the bear
Japan's democratic party strives for normalcy
Jeanne Guillemin prize recipients
Learning to be capitalists
Making in America
Much ado about decline
National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
Nosy Neighbors: Regional Interference in Great Power Interventions
Not in your backyard: understanding state action against violent non-state actors
Nuclear strategy in the modern era
On the constitutional void in Haiti
Publicity-driven accountability in China
Roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
Selective leviathans
Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
Surviving violence in Delhi: How control and predictability affect decision-making
The Iraq invasion: Twenty years later
The cult of the persuasive: The organizational origins of US strategy in military assistance
The dictator's army
The domestic roots of Chinese assertiveness
The other side of the COIN
The pioneering role of CIS in American war gaming
The right to kill?
Thinking clearly about China's economic statecraft
Threat Perception and Immigration Reform in the United States
Trump's Victory: What Does It Mean for You?
US control of the commons in a US–China conflict
Under duress: The effects of wartime economic isolation
Wargaming revival at MIT
Western intervention in the Balkans
What Next? Challenges ahead for President Biden
What kind of capitalism?
What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
Why clerics turn deadly
Why do violent substate conflicts spread?
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2023
Starr Forum: From Chornobyl to Zaporizhzhia: The Atom and its Impact on Ukraine’s Politics and Security
Starr Forum: Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
Starr Forum: Iran and the Struggle for 'Normalcy': Woman, Life, Freedom
Starr Forum: Reinventing Japan...Again?
Starr Forum: The Iraq invasion: Twenty years later
Starr Forum: Ukraine and Russia One Year On: The Domestic Impact of the War
2022
Starr Forum: #ViralPotentials: How South Asian Women Use TikTok
Starr Forum: Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil's Assertive Foreign Policy
Starr Forum: Amour
Starr Forum: An Update on Russia's War Against Ukraine
Starr Forum: Autocracy’s Assault on Press Freedom
Starr Forum: Behavioral Science and Nudges: Environmental Protection and Sustainability
Starr Forum: Brexit, Europe, and Trump
Starr Forum: Brexit, Europe, and Trump
Starr Forum: Caché
Starr Forum: Digital Innovation and Africa
Starr Forum: Energy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine, and Europe in Challenging Times
Starr Forum: Governing the Unpredictable: Disasters, the State, and Futures
Starr Forum: National Security & Civil Liberties: 1942 & 2017
Starr Forum: North Korea
Starr Forum: North Korea
Starr Forum: Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate, Political Climate
Starr Forum: Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate, Political Climate
Starr Forum: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
Starr Forum: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
Starr Forum: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
Starr Forum: Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
Starr Forum: Solving America's and China's North Korea Problem?
Starr Forum: Somaliland (Sneak Preview)
Starr Forum: Speaking Truth to a New Power: Perspectives on the Free Press and Democracy in South Africa
Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
Starr Forum: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the seeds of the new European war
Starr Forum: The Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
Starr Forum: The Future of US - China Relations
Starr Forum: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict: A prologue to WWIII or another frozen conflict?
Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon
Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon
Starr Forum: The War in Ukraine: A Reporter's View
Starr Forum: The White Ribbon
Starr Forum: The Wider Implications of the War in Ukraine
Starr Forum: US & Mexico in the Trump Era
Starr Forum: Warnings
Starr Forum: Warnings
Starr Forum: Xi Jinping's Third Term: Challenges for the United States
2021
Starr Forum: 3.11 Ten Years Later: Disaster and Resilience
Starr Forum: Advice for President Biden: Dealing with Putin’s Russia
Starr Forum: Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
Starr Forum: Global Jihad: A Brief History
Starr Forum: Israelis and Palestinians: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Starr Forum: Myanmar and South Asia: Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Refugees
Starr Forum: Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?
Starr Forum: On Causes of and Responses to Anti-Asian Violence
Starr Forum: Palaces & Sandcastles: Deconstructing Putin’s Power
Starr Forum: President Biden's Foreign Policy Challenges: Views From Abroad
Starr Forum: Scotland, the UK and Europe: What Next?
Starr Forum: The Future of US-Russian Relations: More of the Same or Something Different?
Starr Forum: The Haitian Constitutional Crisis and the International Community
Starr Forum: The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Starr Forum: US, Afghanistan, 9/11: Finished or Unfinished Business?
2020
Starr Forum: Amazon Burning: The Ghost of Climate Future?
Starr Forum: America’s Civil-Military Crisis
Starr Forum: Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the 21st Century
Starr Forum: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Starr Forum: Democracies on the Rocks?
Starr Forum: From Principles to Implementation: The Challenge of AI Policy Around the World
Starr Forum: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
Starr Forum: Policing in America and Beyond
Starr Forum: Rethinking National Security in the Age of Pandemics
Starr Forum: Russia's Putin: From Silent Coup to Legal Dictatorship
Starr Forum: Russia’s Information War on America
Starr Forum: The Philosophy of Human Rights
Starr Forum: Violence Against Women and Girls: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Starr Forum: When Culture Meets Covid-19
Starr Forum: Where Powers Live
2019
MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
Starr Forum: Abolish ICE?
Starr Forum: Abolish ICE?
Starr Forum: America’s Immigration Dilemma
Starr Forum: Digital Feminism: Case-studies from the Arab Gulf States
Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace
Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace
Starr Forum: Iran Reframed
Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery
Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery
Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
Starr Forum: The Global Rise of Populism
Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad
Starr Forum: The Madhouse Effect
Starr Forum: The Madhouse Effect
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Starr Forum: "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" Book Talk with Kai Bird
Starr Forum: Forced Labor in the Global Economy
Starr Forum: Enemies of the People
Starr Forum: Peace Meals
Starr Forum: "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War" Book Talk with Andrew Bacevich
Starr Forum: 30th Anniversary of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration
Starr Forum: A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon, Former Head of CENTCOM
Starr Forum: A Conversation with Kanan Makiya
Starr Forum: A Report Card on the War on Terror
Starr Forum: A US Invasion of Iraq: Consequences and Scenarios
Starr Forum: A special event with the Boston Review "Debating the Future of US Foreign Policy"
Starr Forum: Afghanistan
Starr Forum: Afghanistan: Mending It Not Just Ending It
Starr Forum: Africa Rebooted
Starr Forum: Allah's Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror
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A nuclear threat from the Taliban?
A unique partnership continues to thrive
Afghanistan was a Ponzi scheme sold to the American public
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Analysis: Denuclearisation of what? US switch on North Korea wording raises debate
Apekshya Prasai and Aidan Milliff awarded USIP dissertation fellowships
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As Israel’s dependence on US shrinks, so does US leverage
At exhibition showing off nuclear arms, N Korea displays apparent new weapon
Australia will get nuclear-powered subs in new partnership with US, UK
Barry Posen on risking escalation and scrutinizing plan
Biden administration's focus on Russia
Biden announces defense deal With Australia in a bid to counter China
Biden moves to restart Iran nuclear talks
Biden seeks five more years for last Russia nuclear pact but no 'reset'
Biden’s Europe trip is an end, not a new beginning
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Can the United States work with India to counter China?
China amps ups military pressure, but victory is not assured
China is building over 100 missile silos in the desert—Is it playing a nuclear “shell game”?
China is not looking to start a war with US
China miscalculated in provoking a standoff with India
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China removes tanks and dismantles helipad, easing border tension with India
China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile
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Chinese President Xi Jinping wrests greater control over China's military; revises National Defense Law
Choucri connects the dots between technology and geopolitics
Community policing in the Global South
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Covid-19 disparities and policy preferences
Covid-19: All-adult vaccine ploy on day of ingratitude
Data flow’s decisive role on the global stage
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Four pivots Joe Biden should make with Russia
France, striving for global power, still struggles to get it
Gen Mark Milley faces criticism, support over call to Chinese counterpart
Global Languages announces new HASS concentration in Korean
Global collaboration surges post-pandemic
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How India stood its ground and forced China to end Pangong Tso aggression
How Trump will hand off the 'nuclear football' to Biden
How close did Chinese warplanes really get to Taiwan?
Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
Impeachment video shows Pence had 'nuclear football' as he moved away from Capitol riot
India sticking to S-400 deal with Russia despite threat of possible US sanctions
India-China border row: India continues to upgrade border infrastructure as Chinese PLA looks to pre-empt India
Indian and Chinese troops start disengagement at Pangong Tso; experts discuss
Indian, Chinese armies begin pullback at LAC
Iran eyes Biden but could conflict still erupt with Trump?
Iran has done well to resist Trump’s maximum pressure
Is the US-Japan alliance still the ‘cornerstone’ of stability in Asia?
Justin Steil wins Edgerton Faculty Award
Kim Jong Un tries to fortify power In North Korea
Kim Jong Un’s North Korea nuclear weapons development puts Biden to the test
Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss sparks speculation over health
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MIT and Danish university students unite to envision a more sustainable future
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Manaakitanga’s role in New Zealand's low COVID-19 death rate
Maritime disputes in East Asia
Mariya Grinberg seeks clarity in jargon
Melissa Nobles named MIT’s next chancellor
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Natanz sidelined by another Israeli attack
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North Korea claims 'new tactical guided' missiles launched
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Russian influence in the Middle East: A new era?
Satellite images appear to show China is making significant progress developing missile silos that could eventually launch nuclear weapons
Sought-after ambassador posts unfilled under Biden. Will they go to political allies or veteran diplomats?
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Study reveals mixed reactions about Covid-19 health disparities
Taiwan and China: line that Biden must tread is finer than ever
Talk of a nuclear deterrent in South Korea
The Fukushima disaster was not the turning point many had hoped
The Heat: US-ROK relations and global health summit
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The dangerous confusion over Mazar-i-Sharif
The end of America's post-9/11 delusion
The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor
The new cold war panic
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To arms or to flight?
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Trump has the authority to launch nuclear weapons — whether Pelosi likes it or not
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US general says China's hypersonic missile test is 'close' to a Sputnik moment
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US-Russia treaty restricting nuclear weapons extended for 5 years
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What's really driving China's strategic objectives?
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Why the governing party election is the main event in Japan
Will China surpass the US in military air superiority?
With increasing authority, women are gaining space while preaching Islam on the Internet
‘A more general anxiety’: Gun sales soared nationwide in 2020
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'PLA was acting with higher approval'
'The war isn’t coming today'
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3 Questions: Chappell Lawson on US security policy
3 Questions: Fotini Christia on new deal-making in Afghanistan
3 questions with Fotini Christia, the new chair of the social & engineering systems PhD program
4 looming foreign policy crises that could derail Biden’s agenda early on
A forum for female voices in international security
A look at the national security challenges facing the US in 2020
A new approach to studying religion and politics
A new world of warcraft
A road map for artificial intelligence policy
A watershed moment in India-China relations, says MIT's Vipin Narang
After Iran strikes back, President Trump indicates a de-escalation
America’s allies are becoming a nuclear-proliferation threat
America’s invasion of Iraq fuelled militant Islam
America’s problem is much bigger than TikTok
Amid a pandemic, China picks a border fight with India
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Asia greets US shift on South China Sea with hope and doubt
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Beijing takes its South China Sea strategy to the Himalayas
Beyond Harvard prof's arrest, increased scrutiny over research conflicts sparks 'a whole lot of anxiety'
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Biden cabinet picks signal a big shift from the Trump era
Biden says US is back at the head of the table
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China and India agree to ‘disengage troops’ in Himalayas
China fires missiles into South China Sea as US sanctions Beijing
China fires missiles into South China Sea, sending US a message
China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley
China may double its nuclear arsenal in just 10 years. Don’t panic.
China now trying to put ‘genie back in bottle’
China spread virus, India gave fitting reply — Aaj Tak, News18 looks for Chinese army in Noida
China's 'grand gestures,' propaganda aim to calm fears about coronavirus
China's modern military strategy in historical perspective
China, India, and sovereignty in the Himalayas
China’s military provokes its neighbors, but the message is for the United States
Chinese aggression in Ladakh also a message for domestic and external audience: Experts
Democracy in distress?
Did the killing of Qassim Suleimani deter Iranian attacks, or encourage them?
Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91
Dreaming big in a small country
Ending the forever wars, by any means necessary
Experts debunk fringe theory linking China’s coronavirus to weapons research
Experts explain: What triggered China’s recent LAC moves?
Fact-checking Tom Cotton's claims about the coronavirus
Faculty seed projects grow into pandemic research opportunities
Far from being weakened by coronavirus, China pursues sovereignty claims on all fronts
Fellowship is at the heart of emergency response in Nigeria
Fingers, boots, and lines: Understanding the 2020 India-China border tensions
First China, now Pakistan: How India's battling on two fronts
For cultural and political conflicts, a humanizing imperative
Former inspector general: Trump is attacking the ‘institution’ of oversight
Fostering friendships and films from across the globe
Fotini Christia named director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
France creates first university intelligence chair and masters course on the dark arts of espionage
Fresh Pangong lake face-off complicates Jaishankar-Wang’s face-to-face meet
George W Bush slips in and out of town as Poodle naps
Himalayan flashpoint could spiral out of control as India and China face off
Hiroshima's legacy 75 years later
History contradicts new Chinese claims over Bhutan's territory
How an Iranian cyberattack might start
How exiled Saudi Arabian activists are quietly building a resistance movement
Huge rally will highlight Trump’s visit to India
Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile—think tank
India and China meet to defuse Himalayan border tensions
India and China trade barbs after ‘gang war’ high in the Himalayas
India has closed military gap with China along border
India looks to continuity in ties under Biden, experts expect rebalancing in some areas
India reinforces contested region as China holds ground, sources say
India-China agree to disengage at Galwan Valley; experts discuss the road ahead
India-China clash: An extraordinary escalation 'with rocks and clubs'
India-China standoff: Prof M Taylor Fravel speaks on the false claim of Galwan by China
Inspectors general: oversight, authority, and removal with Joel Brenner
Intervention or restraint: Ruger and Posen debate Kristol and Flournoy
Iran drives another stake into the heart of the nuclear deal
Iran nuclear deal continues to unravel
Iraqi parliament votes to expel US troops from country
It all adds up
Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies at 76
Ladakh face-off | China’s Foreign Minister blames India ‘for deliberately provoking’ border clash
Low-yield warhead eliminates need for nuclear buildup, state says
MISTI pilots conversations in energy
MIT Africa's Ari Jacobovits helps produce Covid-19 hackathon
MIT deepens connections to the Middle East
MIT’s response to Covid-19
Mattis calls out clearing protesters outside White House 'abuse of executive authority'
Might technology tip the scales?
Modi denies any Indian territory was lost in China clash
Modi finds neighbors silent as India-China tensions simmer
Modi says China isn’t occupying Indian territory after clash
N Korea fires projectiles, after 'momentous' retaliation threat
National security is in the eye of the beholder
New North Korea ICBM report suggests Pyongyang can hit US with nukes
North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South
North Korea has unveiled new weapons, showing Trump failed to tame its nuclear program
North Korea seen expanding rocket launch facility it once promised to dismantle
North Korea signals end of nuclear-test suspension, promises 'new' weapon
North Korea unveils ‘very destabilizing’ ICBM
Oil prices surge after US attack kills senior Iran military chief
Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
Pan-India News 18 poll on India-China standoff: Here’s what it means according to experts
Philippines backs off threat to terminate military pact with US
Pictures and videos show California burning as more wildfires break out across state
Power, the party, and the president: Xi's revolutionary past
Putin's virus disinformation campaign against Americans
Q&A: Holly Jackson on building a cosmic family tree
Qassem Soleimani long targeted the United States
Qassem Soleimani, top Iranian general, killed in US airstrike in Baghdad
Report: Boston minority communities hit hardest by evictions
Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program
Russia 'thinks they can get away with' poisoning Navalny
Russia, China and the US: Who has the best Middle East policy?
Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize
Satellite images indicate Russia is preparing to resume testing its nuclear-powered cruise missile
Saudi Arabia 'planned to spy on Khashoggi's fiancee in UK'
Saudi Arabia runs squalid, abusive jails for women disowned by their male guardians — a forgotten chapter in its rush to champion women’s rights
Secret Tibetan military force raises stakes in India-China clash
Shining a light on the quantum world
Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows
Spies being left exposed in the digital age
Study: State-level adoption of renewable energy standards saves money and lives
Taiwan is building eight new submarines—they alone could destroy a Chinese invasion fleet
Taiwan's planned submarine fleet could forestall a potential Chinese invasion for decades
The 2 most controversial national security items in Trump’s new budget
The 9/11 Commission Report, the pandemic and the future of Homeland Security
The Galwan Valley clash and China’s approach to sovereignty disputes
The Japanese intelligence community & espionage
The rumors of Kim Jong Un’s “grave” illness, explained
The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain
Threat from nuclear weapons and missiles has grown since Trump entered office
Tibet’s shadow looms over Himalayan stand-off
Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked
Transatlantic research and study partnership continues amid the pandemic
Trump administration’s move on visas is ‘dream-crashing’ for Indian students and families
Trump says the US nuclear arsenal is now 'tippy top' thanks to him, but nuke experts say he's out of touch with reality
Trump slams China’s pattern of aggression
Trump wages a war on watchdogs as coronavirus elevates their importance
Trump’s inaccurate statements about the conflict with Iran
Trump’s virus treatment revives questions about unchecked nuclear authority
Trump’s ‘highly unusual’ politicization of government watchdogs
Twenty years of cultivating tech entrepreneurs
Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrent
Two years after Trump-Kim meeting, little to show for personal diplomacy
US military deploys new type of nuclear weapon seen as key to countering Russia
US pulls out of open skies treaty
US sanctions Turkey over Russian air defense system, raising questions and concerns
US says most of China’s claims in South China Sea are illegal
US tells foreign students with online classes to go, universities look at options
Universities should lead the way on climate action, MIT panelists say
What Trump's visit means for India?
What do the IG firings say about American democracy?
What's the path forward on Iran?
When culture clashes with Covid-19
Where is Kim Jong Un?
Who is Mohammad bin Salman?
Who is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist killed in attack outside Tehran?
Why do banking crises occur?
Why soldiers fight
Why the Beirut blast created a mushroom cloud
Why the confusion about Kim Jong Un's health actually makes sense
Will the Covid-19 pandemic change national security?
Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?
Xi’s obsession to look strong amid domestic discontent likely reasons for China’s rogue behaviour, say experts
2019
'The clock is ticking': A year on from the Singapore summit Kim Jong Un is losing patience with Donald Trump's strategy
1 big thing: No deal in Hanoi
3 Questions: Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
3Q: John Tirman on a new US human rights commission
A brief history of intelligence whistleblowing
A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
A look at US national security after Bolton's departure
A look at the fallout from the Jamal Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia
A month after G20, Trump's Asia policy achievements appear to be unraveling
A nuclear world with Vipin Narang
A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks
A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed.
A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy
AI meets bureaucratic politics
Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter
Africa insiders: Tiny Gambia stands up for the Rohingya
After Trump and Kims handshake, what comes next in US-North Korean talks
After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
All things policy: talking nukes with Vipin Narang
Amazing event North Korea lauds Trump-Kim meeting at border
An interview with Dr Scott Sagan and Dr Vipin Narang
Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?
As North Korea doubles down on its nuclear weapons, Trump and the US are stuck with ‘strategic patience’
At the Center for International Studies, a student endowment for women in international affairs
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J Samuels
Best/worst cases for Trump-Kim II
Billions dead: That's what could happen if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war
Book Review: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since1949
Burna Boy, Timini Egbuson amongst others win big at TFAA 2019
Chaguan | A chained dragon
China says the US is undermining global stability
Chinese and Iranian hackers renew their attacks on US companies
Civilians evacuated from last ISIS-held village in Syria
Co-designing assistive technologies in India
Commerce and coercion
Could someone actually steal a US nuke?
Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
Delhi denies asking Trump to mediate Kashmir dispute
Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no.
Disbelief, joy and resistance as Saudi women get first passports
Dueling investigations? Days before inspector general's report on FBI's Russia investigation, Trump promotes AG probe
Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
Ep 124: Nuclear war, deterrence and peace
Even for a limited nuclear deal, North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief
Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
Failed Russian nuclear test hints at Putin's dangerous plans to beat US defenses
Fast, low and hard to stop: North Korea’s missile tests crank up the threat level
Foreign Affairs reviews “Special Duty”
Former NSA inspector: whistleblower does not need firsthand information
Former inspector general on Trump & republicans attacking the whistleblower
From focus to forgotten: Why no N Korea spotlight at UN?
GOP lawmakers invited to WH today
Greater Boston: Vindman testifies about Trump's Zelensky call and Volker revises his testimony
Group of former intelligence community watchdogs call for protecting whistleblowers
Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series
Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer
How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
How Pakistan is playing Washington—again
Impeachment spotlights vulnerability of acting federal watchdogs
Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections
India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon
India says committed to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons for now
India slips further behind China during first five years of Modi
India weighs military options against Pakistan as Kashmir tensions rise
India, Pakistan exchange fire
India–Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead?
India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites
Intelligence reforms: time for a Japanese James Bond
Iran denies US claims about drone attack
Iran says it has exceeded uranium limits set in 2015 nuclear deal
Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook
Iran will stop complying with some parts of US nuclear deal
Is Boston a cloud security hub
Is India “creatively reinterpreting” its no-first-use policy?
Is the US about to lower the bar for North Korea denuclearisation?
Is the US inching closer to war with Iran?
Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
It’s clearer than ever that the US’s North Korea policy is in total chaos
Japanese report to say North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads
Japanese spies, once renowned, have fallen on hard times
Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76
Jeanne Guillemin, who exposed Soviet anthrax lab, dies at 76
Joel Brenner comments on whistleblower issue
Joel Brenner on whistleblower & Trump
Joel Brenner: allegations that WH attempted to cover up Trump-Ukraine call records is "deeply troubling"
Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides
Kim Jong Un guided test-fire of new “superior tactical” weapon on Saturday: KCNA
Kim Jong Un inspects submarine that experts fear could carry far-reaching missiles
Kim Jong Un is pushing his own 'maximum pressure' campaign against Donald Trump with latest missile test, experts say
Kim Jong Un may have faced ‘domestic hard line pressure’
Kim Jong Un receives letter from Trump, saying he will seriously contemplate its interesting content
Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
Learning to study a painful past
M Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949
M. Taylor Fravel on how the People's Liberation Army does military strategy
MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
Mapping urban transport
Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death
Military strategy and politics in the PRC
Missile test site explosion raises questions about US-Russia nuclear competition
Modi’s definitive win may mean a more assertive India
NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?
NATO summit begins amid tensions
NYT: Saudi Crown Prince said he'd use 'bullet' on Khashoggi
Narendra Modi v Imran Khan: Who won the war of perception?
Neocon-led US Venezuela policy, rhetoric trigger deja vu effect
New images of Kim Jong Un’s horseback ride at a sacred mountain suggest the country’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ will defy Trump
North Korea conducts second weapons test in under a week
North Korea conducts ‘crucial test’ as deadline nears
North Korea could gift the US a long-range missile for Christmas, MIT professor says
North Korea denies reports of behind-the-scenes talks with US in sharp rebuttal to South Korea's Moon
North Korea doubts US will have alternative plans inside two weeks
North Korea escalates missile tests
North Korea fires ballistic missile, possibly from submarine, days before talks
North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles. So why won’t Trump use the B word?
North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test
North Korea missile tests, ‘very standard’ to Trump, show signs of advancing arsenal
North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties
North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon,’ with Kim Jong Un there to observe
North Korea tested a missile over the weekend. The Trump admin flubbed the response.
North Korea threatens Japan with 'real ballistic missile'
North Korea warns it's up to the US to decide what 'Christmas gift' it will get
North Korea weapons test may have included ballistic missile
North Korean leader visits sacred mountain as speculation grows of fresh provocation
North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un's 'Christmas gift' decision
North Korean missile launch a 'new type of threat,' South Korea says
North Korea’s improved missile systems spark ‘deadline’ concerns
North Korea’s new weapons, and how they affect Trump’s nuclear deal hopes, explained
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan face off in renewed escalation
One year on, shadow of Khashoggi’s killing stalks Saudi prince
Opening the arsenal
Over 1,000 MIT students, researchers to India in last two decades
Picture from Washington: Not so rosy on Kashmir
Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics
Pompeo visits elite event as Trump policies raise questions
Relaunched: The new nuclear arms race with Russia
Revolution in military affairs and India’s defense preparedness
Richard Samuels on "Special Duty"
Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates?
Russian scientist in city near nuclear explosion warns locals not to fish, says agency 'committed a crime'
SMA debate: Why shouldn’t South Korea pay more for its defense?
Saudi Arabia again under UN scrutiny as anniversary of Khashoggi killing nears
Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back.
Seoul: North Korea tests short-range projectiles
Shola Lawal on human rights and social justice
Sources say
Special Duty: "Best of Books 2019" by Foreign Affairs
Special duty
Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor
Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program
Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. But Washington doesn’t seem that bothered.
Tests and temptations: The nuclear balance in Asia
The (evolving) art of war
The BradCast
The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
The Cybersecurity 202: SCIF fight shows lawmakers can be their own biggest cybersecurity vulnerability
The IT and biological technology link
The North Korean nuclear crisis
The Russian Navy: A submarine powerhouse?
The art of no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other
The difficulty of basing US missiles in Asia
The importance of academics engaging with policymakers
The intersection of technology and war
The media hands Trump a hollow victory on North Korea
The uncertain role of natural gas in the transition to clean energy
To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal
To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s
Trump administration downplays fears of post-treaty arms race
Trump agrees to second Kim summit as nuke deal remains elusive
Trump and Kim exchange letters, but will they meet at DMZ
Trump and Kim open 2nd nuclear summit
Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’
Trump appears to confirm US nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
Trump appears to contradict Bolton on North Korea, expresses ‘confidence’ in Kim
Trump blames Iran for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman
Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim
Trump offers North Korea's Kim weekend meeting in demilitarized zone
Trump officials privately bracing for North Korea's next move
Trump says Kim Jong Un risks losing 'everything' after North Korea claims major test
Trump says he looks forward to seeing Kim Jong Un 'in the not too distant future'
Trump says no to eased sanctions, but South Korea's Moon keeps nuclear talks with Kim alive
Trump steps over North Korean border and into controversial nuclear negotiations
Trump to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in two weeks for the pair's second summit
Trump unveils ambitious missile defense plans
Trump's 'great chemistry' with Kim Jong Un put to test at summit
Trump's artificial intelligence order lacks funding but not a target — China
Trump's bizarre claims about Russian invasion of Afghanistan
Trump, Kim fail to reach agreement in Hanoi after talks abruptly collapse
Trump-Kim handshake may be meaningless without bridging denuclearization differences
Trump-Kim talks or not, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal apparently continues to grow
Trumps whirlwind weekend in Asia
Trump’s diplomacy with Kim dims as both sides return to hard-line positions
US imposes first N. Korea-linked sanctions since failed summit
US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
US risks emboldening Kim with muted response to missile test
US still hopes for talks after latest North Korean missile tests
Understanding populism
Victim ideology part 1
Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure?
Washington and Seoul postpone military drills in bid to boost stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang
Watch | ‘No First Use’ in India’s Nuclear Doctrine
We need to not freak out about the robot revolution
We should assume Iran is responsible for attacks on oil tankers, says Jim Walsh
Weakened and unstable Trump gives Korea the jitters
What 2018 looked like fifty years ago
What is next after Iran strike called off?
What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel
What would a US grand strategy of restraint look like?
Who left the island? Who got the rose? The Trump-Kim summit played out like a reality show.
Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet
Why whistleblower standoff represents a ‘unique juncture’ for US government
With new North Korea-US talks likely, will a deal result?
World powers react to Iran exceeding limits in nuclear deal
“Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor Fravel
“Active Defense” by Taylor Fravel
Older
'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
Eugene Skolnikoff: the pioneer of science diplomacy
Fallon: US needs strategy on China
Foreign policy and the next US administration
Fotini on the war in Afghanistan
GOP whining on military spending cuts
Get ready to starve
Grieving over Gaza
How civil wars evolve
How cutting Pentagon spending will fix US defense strategy
How dictators fall
IMF turmoil unlikely to derail Euro debt talks
India and America in the strategic times to come
Interest grows for international Iran atom plant
Iraq: the human cost
Is it really a new start for Palestinians?
Japan after Kan
Japan after the quake
Japan disaster may have global economic impact
Japan's black swan
Just Jerusalem competition winners
Just Jerusalem: vision for a place of peace
Leaderless Jihad: radicalization in the west
Leaks in all the wrong places
Lucian W. Pye, bold thinker on Asia, is dead at 86
Museveni's grip on Uganda
North-South Korea talks in US serious, but civil
Q&A with Carl Kaysen
Q&A with M. Taylor Fravel
Q&A with Roger Petersen
Reigniting violence: how do ceasefires end?
Rights and security: a broad view
Stand alone: the case for a new isolationism
Supreme tragedy
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
The President's triumph: Obama gets his man
The Salafi moment
The United States, India, and the Gulf: Convergence or Divergence in a Post-Iraq World?
The case for restraint
The future of the American frontier
The lady's leap of faith
The liberal foreign policy tradition: pluses, problems, and prospects
The specter of 1979 is haunting the Middle East
Tokyo's transformation
Two African women won Nobel Peace Prizes, but the continent still has a long way to go to gender equality
U.N. women's resolution: an unhappy birthday
US-Japan relations and a changing Asia
Unveiling hidden China
Violence and protests in the Muslim world
What happened in Basra?
What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
When death came hand-delivered
Where the Arab spring has not yet sprung
Who's winning the War on Terror?
Why Japan relies on nuclear power
With its eye on China, Japan builds up military
News@E40
2023
A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
CIS Summer Study Fellowship call for applications
CIS awards 15 summer study grants
CIS congratulates 2023 graduates
CIS welcomes Weiner family for exhibit tour
GDL Summer internship program gives promising political science students a chance to shine
Lieberman attends New York launch of global report to coincide with UN General Assembly
MISTI internships begin
PhD students Nicholas Blanchette, Wenyan Deng and Raymond Wang awarded World Politics Statecraft Fellowships
The state of global solidarity
précis: Spring/Summer 2023
2022
CIS awards 17 summer study grants
CIS congratulates the graduates
CIS honors Robert E Wilhelm ’62, founding supporter of its most distinguished fellowship program
Call for applications for summer study fellowship and Guillemin prize
John Tirman Memorial Service
John Tirman, CIS executive director and scholar, dies at 72
MIT x TAU webinar series returns for its second year
The Center's bi-annual magazine is now available
Understanding the war in Ukraine with MIT SSP
2021
2020 + 2021 Infinite Mile Award celebration
Ben Schneider is among MIT's 2021-23 Committed to Caring honorees
CIS awards 17 summer study grants
CIS scholars discuss 9/11 at public forums held the day after the attacks through today
CIS welcomes incoming fellows
Call for proposals for fellowship program in human rights and technology
Claude Grunitzky launches TRUE Africa University at MIT with a webinar series
Congratulations 2021 Political Science graduates!
Khashoggi fellowships for MIT students
MISTI alumnus Grace Moore ’20 receives prestigious scholarship to Sciences Po
Samuel Leiter wins foreign policy essay contest
Seven students receive Human Rights and Technology Program fellowships
Solving puzzles of international trade, war, and order
Undergraduate student receives Carnegie's James C Gaither Junior Fellowship
2020
CIS awards 17 summer study grants
Call for proposals for fellowship program in human rights and technology
Distinguished fellow and friend, Yukio Okamoto, felled by Covid-19
Donald L M Blackmer, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at MIT, dead at 91
Eight students receive Human Rights and Technology Program fellowships
Erik Lin-Greenberg joins MIT as assistant professor
IPL completed 5th annual call for proposals
In memory of Donald L M Blackmer, 1929-2020
Lin-Greenberg receives leadership and best dissertation awards
Luce fellowship deadline Oct 16
MISTI Covid-19 updates
MISTI global seed funds program supports global engagement
MIT challenge: Africa takes on Covid19
Patricia Gercik memorial fund established
SHASS Infinite Mile Award recipients in CIS
Student deadlines for Boren and Carnegie fellowships
The Center's bi-annual magazine is now available
2019
CIS 2019 fall newsletter
CIS awards 18 summer study grants
CIS congratulates the graduates
CIS hosts consuls general meeting
CIS spring newsletter
Call for proposals for fellowship program in human rights and technology
Fravel testifies before US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Human Rights & Technology Fellows announced for 2019-20
Inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor Suzanne Berger reflects on her research, MIT
Jeanne Guillemin, sociologist of science and national security
Luce fellowship deadline Oct 18
MISTI team receives SHASS Infinite Mile Award
MIT Center for International Studies January 2020 IAP offerings
MIT Policy Lab launches MITx course on policy outreach
Narang receives the ISSS "Emerging Scholar" award
Oye named member of NIH research advisory committee
Pat Gercik, visionary manager of the MIT Japan Program and of MISTI
Policy Lab's Noelle Selin testifys at hearing on “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment”
SSP Congressional Meeting
The Notre Dame International Security Center's Lifetime Achievement Award
University of Regensburg and MIT-Germany expand partnership
Untangling the social dynamics of water
Older
'Becoming Enemies' emerges from US-Iran project
'Deaths of Others' in America's wars
A conversation with Admiral Fallon
Anderlini becomes CIS senior fellow
At Starr Forum, MIT experts assess Japan's crisis
Avishai on peace and Israel's economy
BBC journalist joins CIS
Berger receives French Legion of Honor medal
Beshimov testifies at commission hearing
Book talk with Kristof, WuDunn
Bustani Seminar on Ahmadinejad
Bustani Seminar: 'Who Speaks for Islam?'
CIS Advisory Board led by Admiral Fallon
CIS awards 18 summer study grants
CIS co-sponsors Gaza symposium
CIS moves to E40
CIS releases video: 'Mind, Hand, World'
CIS remembers Jonathan Tucker
CIS scholars offer advice to Obama
CIS shines at MIT 150
CIS sponsors East Asia working group
CIS summer study grant
CIS summer study grant
CIS/ICAN women's study released to UN
Carmin helps author IPCC's climate report
Chomsky on Gaza
Cold War Cinema series
Conflict resolution in Jerusalem
David Miliband joins CIS
Dolev honored by Israeli consulate
Experts' call to improve U.S. relations with Iran
Fallon and Christia on Afghanistan
Fearless Iranian exile speaks out
Feldstein on the global economy
Fellowship for undergraduates
Fellowship for undergraduates
Fotini on 'Flipping the Taliban'
Four 'CIS Students' receive Fulbrights
Fravel appointed to New National Asia Program
Gercik coordinates MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
Gercik wins award
Graduate funding opportunities
Grants for research in Brazil
Harris named Fulbright Scholar
IAP 2010 offerings
IUCIM and CIS honor Sharon Stanton Russell
Immigration, Islam, and the west
In profile: Kenneth Oye
Is national security affordable?
Jerusalem talks conclude with built & civil society
Joint research on regulatory science
Joint seminar on South Asian politics
Journalist from Pakistan joins CIS
Kaysen, 89, MIT Professor Emeritus
Kirshner on 'I Live Here'
Kirshner teaches IAP course
Lawson named Director of MISTI
Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 17
Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 18
Luce Fellowship deadline Oct. 7
Luce fellowship deadline Oct. 22
MISTI adds MIT Korea and MIT Russia
MISTI announces Global Seed Funds winners
MISTI awards Global Seed Funds
MISTI helps empower teachers
MISTI helps put anime on stage
MISTI interns share global insights
MISTI partners with MEET
MISTI turns 25
MIT announces global strategy
MIT-France helps advance energy research
MIT-Germany Seed Fund launched
MIT-Italy Director receives Italian honors
Manrique on Colombia
McKibben on the environment
Meet the PEGS fellows
New research on women and security
Nilüfer Göle to speak at Bustani Seminar
Nobel winner helped launch MIT France
Obama & the Arab-Israeli conflict
On the calendar
On the calendar
Origami competition unfolds
Oye experiences quake while in Tokyo
Oye moderates 'Census & Race' talk
Oye receives Levitan Teaching Prize
PEGS announces graduate fellows program
PEGS graduate fellows competition
PEGS names new fellows
PEGS participates in Resilient Cities 2010
PHRJ summer internship grants
Posen elected to American Academy
Posen, a signatory on Afghanistan report
Puerto Rico and Caribbean Basin
Roadmap and rationale for U.S.-Iran relations
Rovner wins ISSS best book award
SSP Wednesday Seminars
SSP scholar & students publish book
SSP summer courses, sign-up now
Samuels, Fravel featured at Asia Policy Assembly
Starr Forum on U.S.-Cuba relations
Starr Forum on U.S.-Iran relations
Starr Forum on health care policy
Starr Forum: Obama and science policy
Starr Forums on video
Students receive funds for global studies
Summer courses on innovation, biosecurity
Symposium issues statement on Palestinian issue
Tellis on the Taliban
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