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	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 Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949 Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. His new book, Active Defense, illuminates China's past and present military goals and how the nation sought to achieve them. Featured here is an excerpt from the book.
	précis May 14, 2019 PhD student Kacie Miura on the domestic roots of Chinese assertiveness As US-China relations have deteriorated, it has become all too easy to attribute China's foreign policy behavior to hostile or revisionist intentions. Doing so, however, risks exacerbating spiral dynamics that cut to the core of the security dilemma between the two states.
	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.
	précis May 14, 2019 End Notes End Notes features the professional achievements of our scholars, students, and staff. This includes recent awards, speaking engagements, and publications.
	News@E40 May 13, 2019 MISTI team receives SHASS Infinite Mile Award Mala Ghosh, Maria Segala and Madeline Smith have been selected to receive the SHASS Infinite Mile Award for Inclusion.
	précis May 9, 2019 Activities SSP congressional meeting; 2019 summer study grants; Faculty launch collaborations around the world; MISTI team receives SHASS award; Starr Forums; Focus on Russia; and more.
	News@E40 May 9, 2019 CIS awards 18 summer study grants Eighteen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded summer study grants. Each will receive up to $3,500. “The awards were made to an outstanding cohort of MIT students from across the Institute. We're so pleased that the appeal of these grants has broadened and students are responding,” said John Tirman, CIS executive director and principal research scientist.
	In the News May 9, 2019 North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test Simon DenyerThe Washington Post Vipin Narang, a professor of international security studies at MIT, said the risks mount with each test by the North. “Kim risks overshooting and provoking a furious Trump backlash if the latter feels betrayed,” he wrote in an email. “And if this is an attempt to pressure the U.S. to moderate its negotiating position, it may backfire: The U.S. may only harden it to avoid looking like it’s caving to North Korean tests and pressure. So, if this push-the-line strategy continues or intensifies, hold on to your hats.”