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Analysis + OpinionMay 23, 2023Did the unipolar moment ever end?Foreign AffairsIs the global distribution of power today is closer to being unipolar than it is to being bipolar or multipolar? Experts weigh in. |
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News ReleaseMay 19, 2023Freeman and Garcia-Montes receive Jeanne Guillemin PrizeMichelle EnglishCenter for International StudiesSuzanne Freeman and Mariel Garcia-Montes are the recipients of this year’s Jeanne Guillemin Prize at the Center for International Studies (CIS). The prize provides financial support to women studying international affairs, a field that has long been dominated by men. |
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In the NewsMay 19, 2023Architectural heritage like you haven’t seen it beforePeter DizikesMIT NewsMIT’s “Ways of Seeing” project, directed by Fotini Christia, a professor, is a historic preservation effort recording architecture through digital imaging, Extended Reality techniques, and hand-drawn architectural renderings. |
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In the NewsMay 18, 2023Six MIT SHASS educators receive 2023 Levitan Teaching AwardsSchool of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesMIT NewsNicholas Ackert, a PhD candidate in the MIT Security Studies Program, received a James A and Ruth Levitan Teaching Award for 2023, along with five others. The awards honor outstanding success in teaching undergraduate and graduate students. |
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In the NewsMay 15, 2023Video: Ukraine pledges to take back Russian-occupied territories, but experts argue success is unlikelyGBH NewsCarol Saivetz, Senior Advisor at the MIT Security Studies Program, appeared on GBH News to discuss the coming Ukrainian counteroffensive. |
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In the NewsMay 12, 2023New MIT-Denmark collaboration to expand opportunities for global impactMISTIMIT NewsA grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation will allow more MIT interns to connect with innovators in Denmark. |
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News@E40May 10, 2023CIS welcomes Weiner family for exhibit tourSabina Van MellCenter for International StudiesThis week, Beth Ben-Avraham and Avital (Tali) Datskovsky, Professor Myron Weiner's daughter and granddaughter, visited the Institute to tour the South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections. |
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In the NewsMay 9, 2023Podcast: Bureaucracies, dictatorships, and the power of Africa’s peopleMIT NewsPresident Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes. |
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In the NewsMay 8, 2023Radio: 'Grand Delusion' with Steven Simon on Monday's Access UtahTom WilliamsUtah Public RadioCIS Wilhelm Fellow Steven Simon joined Tom Williams on Utah Public Radio to discuss his new book Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East. |
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In the NewsMay 5, 2023A transformative era ends at the Center for International StudiesMIT News“Dick Samuels built the CIS into a vibrant incubator of ideas, an engine of scholarly output and policy relevance, and a place where fierce debates could occur while friendships were forged. This is the institution that Evan Lieberman, one of the department’s most creative and entrepreneurial members, will soon take in exciting new directions,” says David Singer, head of the Department of Political Science and Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science. |