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	News@E40 October 12, 2018 MIT-Germany and the University of Stuttgart extend cooperation Lily KeyesMIT News Representatives from the MIT-Germany Program and the University of Stuttgart (USTUTT) recently came together to formally extend a strategic partnership first created in 2015. Collaboration extends opportunities for faculty seed funds, internship opportunities, and a Global Teaching Labs program through 2020.
	In the News October 12, 2018 North Korea weaponizes its deal with Trump to tangle talks Choe Sang-HunThe New York Times Mr. Kim “has mastered the art of milking a single cosmetic concession for months,” Vipin Narang, said on Twitter this week. “Brilliantly selling the same horse twice.”
	Analysis + Opinion October 12, 2018 Why ethnic nationalism still rules Bosnia, and why it could get worse Una Hajdari and Michael ColborneThe Nation From Donald Trump to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, nationalism seems to have become the mainstay of political rhetoric everywhere these days.
	In the News October 10, 2018 Google+ to close after report of user data exposure CNN Google's unpopular social network is finally finding itself in the spotlight—but for all the wrong reasons. David Edelman speaks with CNN’s News Stream.
	In the News October 10, 2018 US weapons systems are easy cyberattack targets, new report finds Emily DreyfussWired “I will say that the GAO can be prone to cyber hyperbole, but unless their sampling or methodology were way off or deliberately misleading, DOD has a very grave problem on its hands,” says R David Edelman.
	In the News October 9, 2018 Pompeo hails 'significant' North Korea progress; experts skeptical ReutersThe New York Times “The real takeaway from this Punggye-ri pledge is that Kim has mastered the art of milking a single cosmetic concession for months to burn clock,” Vipin Narang said on Twitter.
	In the News October 8, 2018 Experts dismiss North Korea's latest concession to US Alexander SmithNBC News Kim and his officials are instead trying to buy time so they can make progress on other fronts…Inviting inspectors to an old testing site is an example of this calculus, according to Vipin Narang.
	News@E40 October 4, 2018 The Move: Civic innovators help restore democracy The Move is a new initiative out of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning that features weekly podcasts, blog posts, and more from the civic innovators at democracy’s front lines. Join the conversation at themove.mit.edu. The initiative is funded in part by the Center’s International Policy Lab and MIT’s Office of Open Learning.
	In the News October 3, 2018 China and the new frontier of biosecurity threats Henny SenderNikkei Asian Review Kenneth Oye, director of the Center’s Program on Emerging Technologies said that it is possible for even helpful advances to be used in bad ways. “It will be difficult to check the potential for malevolent misuse of advanced biotechnologies,” he said.
	In the News October 3, 2018 An assault on American intelligence Una HajdariMIT News In MIT visit, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden describes current difficulties faced by society and US intelligence services.