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	News@E40 June 2, 2015 Armenian genocide and Armenia today On May 13, 2015, the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Hrant Dink Memorial Human Rights and Justice Lectureship at MIT, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held a conference on the Armenian genocide at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. The aim of the conference was to inform public debate on the evolution of the Armenian genocide. Conference panelists represented a diversity of expertise and experience, but all shared in their scholarly approach to examining the events of 1915 and the critical issues affecting Armenia today. Read full report
	Analysis + Opinion June 1, 2015 The failure of neoliberalism John TirmanBoston Globe The tens of thousands of migrants around the world who are frantic enough to take unsafe boats or sit atop fast-moving trains to get to Europe or America are telling us something vital about the global economy.
	News Release May 26, 2015 Recent national intelligence officer joins CIS Paul Heer, a recent National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, has been named a Robert E. Wilhelm fellow. Dr. Heer will arrive to MIT in September 2015 and will be in residence at CIS for the 2015-2016 academic year. He will spend his time at MIT researching and writing on US relations with East Asia, both contemporary and historical, and Chinese political and foreign policy developments.
	In the News May 18, 2015 'Homemade' opiates Peter DizikesMIT News Writing in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have announced a new method that could make it easier to produce drugs such as morphine. Political scientists Kenneth Oye and Chappell Lawson of MIT, along with Tania Bubela of Concordia University in Montreal, authored an accompanying commentary about the regulatory issues involved. Oye answered questions on the subject for MIT News.
	In the News May 13, 2015 Armenians and the legacies of World War I Brookings Institute This year marks the centenary of the atrocities perpetrated against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during World War I by the governing Committee of Union and Progress. Most scholars and many governments consider these horrific events––in which more than one million people were systematically massacred or marched to their deaths––to constitute the first modern European genocide.
	In the News May 3, 2015 Culture clash Peter DizikesMIT News Immigration policy has been among the most rancorous of U.S. political issues in recent years. What has been fueling America’s contentious debates over the topic? Security, according to many people: In the time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, keeping borders secure has been a main justification for tightly controlled immigration. But underneath those concerns lies a simmering cultural clash, according to one MIT scholar who has been studying the topic in depth recently.
	précis May 1, 2015 précis Interview: Joel Brenner Joel Brenner, former inspector general and senior counsel at the National Security Agency (NSA), joined CIS as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow. He discusses his work in law and public service, his interest in technology and policy, and what he is doing at CIS.
	précis May 1, 2015 Nuclear strategy in the modern era By Vipin Narang Largely forgotten in the scholarly and policy obsession with the Cold War and with nuclear acquisition is the fact that regional powers have chosen different nuclear strategies. These differences matter greatly to their ability to deter conflict...why might states select one over the others?
	précis May 1, 2015 'Patriots' with different characteristics: deconstructing the Chinese anti–Japan protests in 2012 By Ketian Zhang In contrast to the conventional wisdom that treats the Chinese as if they were a unified, equally nationalistic group, my research finds that Chinese citizens participated in anti–Japan protests for drastically different reasons—many of which had little to do with Chinese nationalism.
	précis May 1, 2015 Briefings Shivshankar Menon, a former national security advisor of India, was a Robert E. Wilhelm fellow at CIS; Culture clash: new book Dream Chasers explores fierce debates over immigration; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visited MIT as part of his weeklong trip to the US; 3 Questions: Kenneth Oye on regulating drugs.