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	In the News March 12, 2019 A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy Jose A Zorrilla Political Insights Ambassador Jose A Zorrilla offers a review of Barry Posen's Restraint, as the first of three books offering comprehensive grand strategy to US foreign policy.
	Analysis + Opinion March 12, 2019 The Hanoi Summit – we asked Se Young Jang what happens next in US-North Korea relations Se Young JangThe National Interest “Washington and Pyongyang need to promptly resume working-level negotiations and restore trust in each other as negotiating partners.”
	In the News March 11, 2019 Trump’s diplomacy with Kim dims as both sides return to hard-line positions John Hudson The Washington Post “If we’re going to stay firm on the maximalist position, it’s hard to see where we go from here because there’s no way Kim is going to accept this,” said Vipin Narang, a North Korea expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	In the News March 11, 2019 A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed. Alex WardVox “If we don’t move off this position, we have nowhere to go,” MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang told me. “There’s no zone of agreement if we insist on everything — I mean everything, complete surrender — up front.”
	Analysis + Opinion March 10, 2019 Trump aside, what’s the US role in NATO? Barry R PosenThe New York Times President Trump has many bad ideas. Reconsidering America’s role in NATO isn’t one of them. NATO’s founding mission has been achieved and replaced with unsuccessful misadventures.
	In the News March 8, 2019 A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks Alex WardVox “Insisting on disarmament as a condition for peace will lead to exactly the opposite of disarmament and peace,” tweeted MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang.
	In the News March 7, 2019 Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship MIT News “This program and others, like our MISTI-MEET program, are opportunities for our students to learn about entrepreneurship, science, and technology and its capacity to create positive change in the Middle East,” said MISTI assistant director David Dolev.
	In the News March 7, 2019 Learning to study a painful past Peter Dizikes MIT News Lerna Ekmekçioğlu studies pioneering Armenian women of the 19th and 20th centuries — and helps other scholars enter her field. Her best-known book is “Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey.” She is an associate professor of history at MIT and a research affiliate of CIS.
	In the News March 7, 2019 Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet Alex WardVox “A satellite launch is in a gray zone but would definitely create problems for the Trump administration,” MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang told me. “It could put us in a pickle,” especially if North Korea hardliners like National Security Adviser John Bolton use the launch to push Trump toward ending nuclear negotiations.
	In the News March 6, 2019 Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics Milan VaishnavHindustan Times Milan Vaishnav (Director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) speaks with Vipin Narang, associate professor of political science at MIT and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Narang is one of the few scholars to have thought deeply about when foreign policy actually matters for domestic politics in India.