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Suzanne Berger on panel

In the News

November 3, 2023

How to decarbonize the world, at scale

Peter DizikesMIT News

Quoted: “We’re now at a moment of unique openness and opportunity for creating a new American production system.” Institute Professor Suzanne Berger made a panel appearance at the 2023 MITEI Annual Research Conference for a discussion on the financial and policy implications of climate change.

US troops in Iraq

In the News

October 27, 2023

What helped change the US Army counterinsurgency doctrine?

Christopher GoedWavellRoom

Ford International Professor of Political Science Barry Posen was cited in an analysis of the US Army’s counterinsurgency doctrine in the early 2000s.

ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images

In the News

October 26, 2023

The three faces of Ataturk

Throughline PodcastNPR

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, the McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, is featured on NPR’s history podcast Throughline. She talks about learning about the Armenian genocide while growing up as an Armenian in Turkey.

Migrants at the Polish border fence in Belarus Photo: Agnieszka Sadowska / AP

In the News

October 24, 2023

Attempts at blackmail by neighboring European countries: 'Refugees are being used as weapons'

Steffen LüdkeDer Spiegel

Kelly M Greenhill, director of the Seminar XXI Program, spoke with Der Spiegel about how countries like Belarus, Turkey, and Tunisia are using refugees to advance their own interests, as well as how Europe can respond. Note: Content is in German.

Drew Story

In the News

October 23, 2023

Q&A: Magnifying research impact with policymakers

MIT Center for International StudiesMIT News

MIT News interviews managing director of the MIT Policy Lab Drew Story. Story discusses the projects and aspirations of the Lab: “The Policy Lab is an impact magnifier for MIT researchers. When scholars want to see their work have an impact on public policy, we empower and support them to do just that.”
 

Rafah border crossing

Analysis + Opinion

October 20, 2023

How should we think about a mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza?

Elizabeth N Saunders and Kelly M GreenhillGood Authority

Mass migration is a common and tragic feature of war. Many people think of it as an unintended consequence of conflict, as people flee for their lives, from guns, tanks, and artillery on the ground and from bombs and missile strikes from the air. This conventional wisdom is correct, but incomplete.

Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Oct. 1, 2019.

In the News

October 19, 2023

New Pentagon report claims China now has over 500 operational nuclear warheads

Emily FengNPR

Quoted: Director of the Security Studies Program M Taylor Fravel says China’s acceleration and expansion of its nuclear weapons program is “a complete transformation” as he talks to NPR about the country’s doubling of warheads.

Palestinians displaced from the northern Gaza Strip filled the grounds of a United Nations-run school in Khan Younes

In the News

October 14, 2023

Local experts decry forced displacement of Gazans

John HilliardBoston Globe

Quoted: Noora Lori, associate professor of international relations at Boston University and member of the steering committee of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration, is calling for the opening of humanitarian corridors to aid Gazans escaping violent conflict in the area. She states “they’re still under constant shelling, they have no food, water, electricity, nowhere to go, and no safe passage."

Woman crying

News@E40

October 10, 2023

Violence in Israel and Gaza

The Center for International Studies (CIS) endorses the message issued by MIT president Sally Kornbluth. “The brutality perpetrated on innocent civilians in Israel by terrorists from Hamas is horrifying … we are bracing for a prolonged conflict that will also gravely harm or kill many innocent Palestinians in Gaza,” said Kornbluth in a video statement released on Tuesday, October 10.

Jim Walsh

In the News

October 9, 2023

War in Israel: Military and diplomatic analysis

Here & NowWBUR

Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program, explains the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and wartime diplomacy.

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