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	News@E40 May 23, 2012 'Becoming Enemies' emerges from US-Iran project The first book from the Center's US-Iran project was published in May—Becoming Enemies: US-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, the book is the work of five coauthors who are the key players in the project: James Blight and Janet Lang (University of Waterloo), Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive), Hussein Banai (Occidental College), and the Center's John Tirman. Bruce Riedel, who advised President Clinton on U.S.-Iran issues, contributed a foreword. The project is designed to bring together policy makers from the US, Iran, and elsewhere to explore in detail, often for the first time as a group, the key events in a difficult relationship. The project asks if there were missed opportunities to improve the relationship, and why. Later works will examine the period of reform and the 2001-2009 period. It is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Arca Foundation, and an MIT alumnae family.
	précis May 1, 2012 What might an India-Pakistan war look like? By Christopher Clary Conventional wisdom suggests that India has gained sufficient conventional superiority to fight and win a limited war, but the reality is that India is unlikely to be able to both achieve it's political aims and prevent dangerous escalation.
	précis May 1, 2012 Briefings MIT-Japan program received a grant from The Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership for the MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative; Abbas Maleki, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran (1986-1997), spoke on May 9 on Iranian energy security and its intersection with Iranian foreign policy; Hans-Georg Eichler, Kenneth Oye and colleagues review eight proposals for AL, including Health Canada's Progressive Licensing Project, the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation's New Drug Development Paradigms, and the European Medicines Agency Road Map to 2015.
	précis May 1, 2012 Activities CIS organized a three-day workshop in Istanbul, April 12-14, to assess Turkey's new global role and its application of hard and soft power in its region; SSP has launched a Nuclear Security Fellows Program for junior faculty as well as pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars; Sharon Stanton Russell was honored with a IUCIM symposium and dinner; MISTI's two newest country programs are MIT Korea and MIT Russia; The Center continued with its Audit of the Conventional Wisdom video series; The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar hosted two talks.
	précis May 1, 2012 End Notes End Notes features the professional achievements of our scholars, students, and staff. This includes recent awards, speaking engagements, and publications.
	In the News May 1, 2012 What might an India-Pakistan war look like? By Christopher Clary Toward the end of his presidency, Bill Clinton argued that Kashmir, the territory disputed by India and Pakistan, was 'the most dangerous place in the world.'1 Clinton's second term saw India and Pakistan undergo reciprocal tests of nuclear weapons in 1998, followed in 1999 by the Kargil war, the first conflict between nuclear weapons states since the Ussuri River clashes between the Soviet Union and China in 1969.
	précis May 1, 2012 précis Interview: Vipin Narang Vipin Narang, assistant professor of political science and faculty member of the Security Studies Program, discusses with précis his courses on proliferation, South Asian security, and empirical models in IR. He also chats about current research and Iran's nuclear program.
	précis May 1, 2012 Western intervention in the Balkans: the strategic use of emotion in conflict By Roger Petersen Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion, is Roger Petersen's recent book. He received the ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) 2012 Joseph Rothschild Prize for his work. précis features an excerpt from the book.
	Audit April 23, 2012 Future of the euro: threats and opportunities Marco Mazzucchelli and David Singer, MIT David Andrew Singer, associate professor of political science at MIT, discusses the future of the euro with Marco Mazzucchelli, visiting scholar, MIT Sloan.
	News@E40 April 19, 2012 Turkey's new global activism CIS organized a three-day workshop in Istanbul, April 12-14, to assess Turkey's new global role and its application of hard and soft power in its region. Hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the workshop brought together scholars and practitioners from Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, including leading Turkish intellectuals and officials. Along with CIS executive director John Tirman, the meeting was shaped by Professor Mario Zucconi (Princeton), Professor Kristin Fabbe (Claremont McKenna), who recently earned a Ph.D. in political science from MIT, and Michael Meier of the Ebert Foundation. Presentations were also made in Ankara to the diplomatic corps, and will be forthcoming in Washington, D.C., Brussels, and Berlin. The workshop prompted considerable coverage in Turkey, and the organizers expect further engagement.