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	In the News May 21, 2019 Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook Joshua BerlingerCNN “It seems very clear that at least the President's strategy is to ramp up the temperature with, and pressure on Iran, to get them to renegotiate the JCPOA, which he believes was flawed because it allowed Iran to have a (clearly regionally aggressive) foreign policy and some remnants of a defense capability (i.e. missiles) and sunset clauses on enrichment caps,” said Vipin Narang.
	News@E40 May 21, 2019 Policy Lab's Noelle Selin testifys at hearing on “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment” Noelle Selin, Policy Lab co-faculty director, testified at a hearing entitled, “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment.” The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held the hearing on May 21 to examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent proposal that says limiting mercury and other air toxics from coal and oil-fired power plants is not “appropriate and necessary” under the Clean Air Act.
	In the News May 19, 2019 “Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor Fravel Francis P SempaAsian Review of Books In his new and informative book Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949, Taylor Fravel, using Communist Party history sources that have only recently become available to outside scholars, reviews the evolution of China’s military strategy since the Communist Party seized power after defeating the Nationalists in the civil war, attempts to identify, explain and categorize the changes in military doctrine, and proposes a general theory of Chinese strategic change.
	Analysis + Opinion May 17, 2019 Time to pull US nuclear weapons out of Turkey Harvey M SapolskyDefense One Storing nuclear weapons close to trouble is a bad idea, and giving Ankara a shared finger on the nuclear trigger is rapidly losing its charm.
	In the News May 17, 2019 To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s David E. SangerThe New York Times “They were so committed to leaving the deal, because it had been negotiated by the Obama administration, that they did it without thinking through the predictable consequences,” said Vipin Narang. “The old agreement had flaws — many of them,” Mr. Narang said. “But by ripping it up, they opened up a Pandora’s box,” because so many in Iran also had chafed at the deal because of the nuclear production it gave away.
	News@E40 May 16, 2019 CIS 2019 spring newsletter précis, the MIT Center for International Studies newsletter, covers the wide range of Center activities and tracks the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. The spring 2019 issue is now available.
	News@E40 May 16, 2019 CIS congratulates the graduates The Center congratulates the Class of 2019 from its Security Studies Program. Fiona Cunningham, Reid Pauly, and Ketian Zhang have graduated or are graduating in this commencement cycle. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
	Analysis + Opinion May 16, 2019 Why North Korea is testing missiles again Ankit Panda and Vipin NarangForeign Affairs After 522 days without a ballistic missile test, North Korea is at it again. On May 4, two months after the failed Hanoi summit, Pyongyang fired a new type of solid-fuel short range ballistic missile and tested two separate multiple rocket launch systems.
	News@E40 May 16, 2019 MIT Policy Lab launches MITx course on policy outreach Center for International StudiesMIT News The new online course aims to help researchers engage with public policymakers.
	précis May 14, 2019 Briefings Learning to study a painful past; Saudi scholar and activist Hala Aldosari joins CIS as the Robert E Wilhelm Fellow; MIT Policy Lab launches EdX course on policy outreach; Sarah Williams on mapping urban transport.