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	News@E40 January 1, 2010 Williams on 'Buying National Security' Cindy Williams, a principal research scientist in the Security Studies Program at CIS, and Gordon Adams, a fellow at The Henry L. Stimson Center, recently co-authored a book about national security budgets, de-mystifying the institutions, organizations, processes and politics that support planning and resource allocation. In Buying National Security, the authors uniquely examine how America plans and pays for its global role and safety at home.
	News@E40 January 1, 2010 IAP 2010 offerings The Center is pleased to sponsor a variety of Independent Activities Period (IAP) courses in January 2010. This year's Security Studies Program military fellows will each teach their own course in the series "Contemporary Military Topics." Lt Col. John Walker USMC will teach “Seabasing: Amphibious and Prepositioning Ship Requirements," LTC Kurt Kunzelman USAF will teach "GPS: Changing the Engine Seamlessly, in Mid-Flight, for Over 1 Billion Users," and Colonel William "Butch" Graham USA will teach "The Counter IED Fight in Iraq: Action, Reaction, Counteraction." Also in the mix: “Beginning Kyudo Instruction: First Shot,” and “Ikebana: The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging” sponsored by MIT Japan Program; “Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy” sponsored by MIT China Program; “Flamenco Fun!” sponsored by MIT Spain Program. See more IAP listings here.
	News@E40 December 10, 2009 Fellowship for undergraduates Friday, January 8, 2010, is the application deadline for the CIS-administered research fellows program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Applicants must be graduating seniors or have graduated within the past year, and must not have started graduate school. Successful applicants are matched with a senior associate—academics, former government officials, lawyers and journalists from around the world—to work on a variety of global issues. Fellowships begin August 1, 2010. More information »
	News Release December 2, 2009 MIT global website seeks visions for Jerusalem Protests, anger, controversy, arrests, evacuation—words used in the news to describe Jerusalem today. Still, MIT's Jerusalem 2050 Program seeks visions for a city of peace by mid-century through a website: www.envisioningpeace.org. The site is loaded with interactive tools and resources to help foster dialogue, ideas, and solutions for cities of conflict, beginning with Jerusalem.
	News@E40 December 2, 2009 Web site seeks visions for Jerusalem Protests, anger, controversy, arrests, evacuation—words used in the news to describe Jerusalem today. Still, the Center's Jerusalem 2050 Program seeks visions for a city of peace by mid-century—now through a web site: www.envisioningpeace.org. The site is loaded with interactive tools and resources to help foster dialogue, ideas, and solutions for cities of conflict, beginning with Jerusalem. Envisioningpeace.org is the next phase in the Program’s efforts to organize a global problem-solving exercise. News Release
	News@E40 November 23, 2009 Cold War Cinema series The Center is delighted to introduce a Cold War Cinema series exploring the impact of this era on cinema. The first feature, presented on December 2, is Billy Wilder's 1961 film One, Two, Three. Discussing the film is journalist Christian Caryl, who was in Berlin covering the fall of the wall in 1989. Caryl is currently with Foreign Policy and Newsweek. He is also a senior fellow at CIS. Event Details
	News@E40 November 23, 2009 Immigration, Islam, and the west Christopher Caldwell comes to MIT on November 30 to discuss his latest book: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West. "In Europe, the author argues, the clash between Western civilization and the Muslim world has already been lost—in the latter's favor." Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Slate. His essays and reviews appear in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Event Details
	News@E40 November 18, 2009 Tirman on women & migration A new volume drawing from a major CIS project has just been released by Springer. Women, Migration and Conflict: Breaking a Deadly Cycle, resulted from a research effort commissioned by the UN Population Fund in 2007 and managed by CIS. The project brought together leading analysts on this timely topic—mainly, how to mitigate the impacts of forced migration on women and children—in two workshops, and this book is the major product. Co-edited by Susan Forbes Martin of Georgetown University and CIS executive director John Tirman,the contributors include Dr. Jennifer Leaning of Harvard, a member of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration, which also helped advise the project. “This work shows the vital link between migration and security, and the role that multilateral organizations play in helping women deal with often dangerous, chronic dislocations,” Tirman says. “We’re pleased that we could productively work with a major U.N. agency and this excellent cohort of scholar/practitioners to produce such a useful work.”
	News@E40 November 5, 2009 Oye moderates 'Census & Race' talk A talk entitled Race, Ethnicity and the 2010 Census: Categorizing and Counting will take place on Saturday, November 7. Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and associate professor of political science at UMass Boston, is the featured speaker. Melissa Nobles, associate professor of political science at MIT, will commentate; and Kenneth Oye, associate professor of political science and engineering systems at MIT, will moderate.
	News@E40 November 2, 2009 CIS Advisory Board led by Admiral Fallon Fallon, the group includes Mary Boies, an attorney and high-level government adviser; Jon Borschow, a businessman based in Puerto Rico and an MIT alumnus; Susan Chira, foreign editor of the New York Times; Chas W. Freeman, Jr., former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia; M. Shafik Gabr, a Cairo-based head of a major investment group; Alexis F. Habib, managing director of Spinnaker Capital Limited, London; Dana Mead, Chairman of the MIT Corporation; Yukio Okamoto, former adviser to the Japanese government; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank who earned her PhD at MIT; John Reed, retired Chairman of Citigroup, and an MIT alumnus; Siddharth C.R. Shriram, an industrialist based in New Delhi; Jeffrey L. Silverman, a graduate of the Sloan School at MIT and a commodities trader in Chicago; Anthony Sun, a high-tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who earned degrees in engineering at MIT; Lynn Chatman Todman, director of the Institute on Social Exclusion in Chicago, and a MIT PhD in urban planning; and Thomas Wolf, a political science PhD from MIT and a Pennsylvania businessman who has served in the governor’s cabinet.