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	In the News November 4, 2024 Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond Scott Murray Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at CIS, directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR).
	In the News November 1, 2024 Israel's latest escalation in Middle East stokes fears of larger regional conflict WBUR Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses Israel's recent airstrikes towards Iran and its implications for the region.
	In the News October 28, 2024 Areg Danagoulian, faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, is among the recipients of an academic fellowship Areg Danagoulian, the faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, received the 2024 Forum on Physics and Society Fellowship “for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms control and cargo security, which significantly benefit international security.”
	In the News October 25, 2024 Stopping the bomb Kunal Singh, political scientist of the Security Studies Program, identifies a suite of strategies states use to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons.
	In the News October 24, 2024 Can Europe really build its own DARPA? Fiona Murray and Frølund European leaders, from Emmanuel Macron to Mario Draghi, have called for the European Union to create its own version of the United States government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But this is not a new idea, and attempted clones on the continent have failed to achieve their full potential. Read the latest from Fiona Murray, faculty director of MIT-United Kingdom.
	In the News October 24, 2024 World Business Report: The 2024 BRICS Summit Mihaela Papa, director of research and principal research scientist at CIS, discusses the 2024 BRICS summit and the group's progress on moving away from the dollar and managing internal conflicts.
	In the News October 18, 2024 Ukraine’s bold Kursk offensive: A turning point or bargaining chip? Carol R. Saivetz For the Ukrainian president, the Kursk offensive is the first step toward a possible end-game more favorable to Ukraine. With all the unknowns, it is unclear whether his gambit will succeed.
	In the News October 17, 2024 Envisioning a stable military balance M. Taylor Fravel & Eric Heginbotham SSP Director M. Taylor Fravel and principal research scientist Eric Heginbotham's latest research essay, "Envisioning a Stable Military Balance," appears on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's "U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence."
	In the News October 15, 2024 BRICS and multilateralism: Four dynamics to watch at the Kazan Summit Mihaela Papa The upcoming BRICS summit, which will take place in the Russian city of Kazan from October 22 to 24, 2024, will be a critical test of the group’s capacity to sustain its growth and work toward uniting the countries of the "global majority." To understand the implications of the enlarged BRICS group for Western global governance agendas, Mihaela Papa, director of research and a principal research scientist at CIS, describes the key dynamics to watch
	In the News October 9, 2024 Expanded BRICS needs to innovate to show its influence Director of research and principal research scientist, Mihaela Papa, discusses how the economic integration of emerging market nations within the expanded BRICS group will be enhanced by advancements in proposals like a payments system and grain exchange.