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	In the News May 27, 2020 Changing balance across LAC trigger for stand-off, says China expert Taylor Fravel Ananth KrishnanThe Hindu The spark for the current stand-off with China, with the ongoing face-off situations in the Galwan River valley, Pangong Lake and other areas, is the increasing infrastructure competition along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), says M Taylor Fravel.
	In the News May 24, 2020 Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrent Simon DenyerThe Washington Post Vipin Narang quoted: MIT professor Vipin Narang called the statement “alarming.” “I have no idea what this means but I am sure we won’t like it,” he tweeted.
	In the News May 22, 2020 US pulls out of open skies treaty Jeremy HobsonWBUR Here & Now The United States is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty, the third major security accord the Trump Administration has scuttled. Host Jeremy Hobson speaks with security analyst Jim Walsh to explain the situation and talk about the potential consequences.
	In the News May 21, 2020 The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain Michele L Norris The Washington Post Evan Lieberman quoted: “It is not difficult to imagine that if covid-19 comes to be understood as a ‘Black’ epidemic,” he wrote, “this will create false impressions for many white Americans — in the United States’ racially polarized and effectively segregated society — that the virus is ‘not our problem,’ leading to decreased demand for and compliance with public health directives.”
	In the News May 21, 2020 Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize Michelle EnglishMIT News The prize, which provides financial support to women working toward a PhD in international affairs, will be applied toward her research into proxy warfare.
	précis May 20, 2020 Briefings Experts rethink national security in the era of pandemics; Robert Art retires as director of Seminar XXI; Sara Plana receives Jeanne Guillemin Prize; Yukio Okamoto, distinguished diplomat and fellow, felled by Covid-19; Africa takes on Covid-19; and Pandemic insights from iGEM conference.
	News Release May 20, 2020 Sara Plana is the inaugural recipient of the Jeanne Guillemin Prize Sara Plana, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Jeanne Guillemin Prize at the Center for International Studies (CIS). The prize provides financial support to women studying international affairs and was endowed at CIS by the late Jeanne Guillemin.
	News Release May 20, 2020 Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program after 20 years of dedicated service The Center for International Studies (CIS) announces today that Robert Art will step down from his role as the director of the Seminar XXI Program effective June 30. Art has directed the CIS Seminar XXI program since 2000.
	précis May 19, 2020 precis Interview: Anat Biletzki Anat Biletzki is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University, a research affiliate at CIS, and founding co-director of its Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Program. In this interview, she describes the work of the human rights and technology program and her book, Philosophy of Human Rights: A Systematic Introduction.
	précis May 19, 2020 The cult of the persuasive: The organizational origins of US strategy in military assistance PhD candidate Rachel Tecott explains in her essay that "as long as the White House and the Congress continue to grant the military the autonomy and the resources to perpetuate military assistance projects without serious evaluation...the cult of the persuasive is likely to persist, and US military assistance projects are likely to fail."