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	précis April 30, 2018 Under duress: The effects of wartime economic isolation Erik Sand, a PhD student in international relations and security studies, discusses how economic isolation impacts wartime behavior.
	précis April 27, 2018 Hidden atrocities: The Tokyo trial Jeanne Guillemin's recent book Hidden Atrocities is about Japanese germ warfare and American obstruction of justice at the Tokyo trial. Her book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, and for the Robert K Merton Award from the American Sociological Society. Featured here is an excerpt.
	précis April 26, 2018 précis Interview: John Tirman John Tirman discusses human rights, the rise of populism, Dreamers, and warfare. Tirman is the executive director of and a principal research scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies.
	News@E40 April 26, 2018 SSP panel on North Korea in DC The MIT Security Studies Program held a special seminar in Washington, DC, on April 26. More than sixty people attended the talk, “The Nuclear Crisis with North Korea” at the National Press Club. Chaired by SSP director, Barry Posen, the panel (Jim Walsh, Taylor Fravel, and Vipin Narang) discussed the current issues and answered questions from the crowd.
	News@E40 April 25, 2018 Sarah Zukerman Daly receives Carnegie fellowship Sarah Zukerman Daly, who received her PhD in political science at MIT, is a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow recipient. She is assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Her work is focused on civil wars and peace-building, democratic elections, organized crime, and ethnic politics.
	News@E40 April 24, 2018 The final yard Mark WolvertonSpectrum The International Policy Lab (IPL) was set up within CIS to help make the leap from the lab bench or seminar blackboard to the halls of Congress or a decision-maker’s desk. It started out as something of an experiment but it’s flourishing: the number of proposals submitted has roughly doubled each year.
	News@E40 April 24, 2018 Seminar XXI: Educating our leaders Mark WolvertonSpectrum Since 1984, the Seminar XXI program has provided 2,100 military and civilian fellows with policy training through a series of sessions held in the DC area. The program not only brings in faculty from MIT but is also able to tap into resident expertise of the Beltway.
	In the News April 23, 2018 An unpredictable Trump and a risk-prone Kim mean high stakes and mismatched expectations Max FisherThe New York Times In the New York Times, Vipin Narang warned that the mile-wide gaps in the countries’ goals and even their understandings of basic terminology leaves “either lots of room for a bargain, or lot of room for a war.”
	In the News April 21, 2018 North Korea stops short of suggesting any intention of giving up nuclear arsenal CBS/APCBS News “This was a smart move by Kim,” says Vipin Narang. “Although it largely formalizes previous pledges on the moratoria from last November and March, it still leaves a lot of wiggle room for circumventing the pledges in the future, and nothing in there is irreversible. And nothing in there mentions denuclearization, of any variety.”
	In the News April 19, 2018 South Korean president says North isn’t insisting on American troop withdrawal Anna FifieldThe Washingon Post Vipin Narang said he would be “very, very careful” about interpreting Moon’s statement as a sign that Kim had conceded that U.S. Forces Korea could stay, “This is a very clever semantic pirouette.”