Visting scholars from Ukraine kick off Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program
Author:
Lisa Capone
Ukrainian researchers and faculty will spend a semester at MIT during the two-year pilot program.
Policymakers must confront weaponized migration to address border crisis
Author:
Bethany Blankley
Quoted: "The United States is... being targeted by foreign adversaries through 'weaponized migration,' Kelly Greenhill, a senior research scholar at MIT Center for International Studies, director of Seminar XXI, and author of 'Weapons of Mass Migration,' wrote in an analysis."
Verschuren shares research at MIT’s Security Studies Program
Last month, Sanne Verschuren, Assistant Professor of International Security at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, presented her latest research, “Imagining the Unimaginable: War, Weapons, and Procurement Politics,” at the MIT Security Studies Program Wednesday Seminar.
Climate change and military power: Hunting for submarines in the warming ocean
Author:
Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, Antonio Ricchi, Aniello Russo, Sandro Carniel
Quoted: "In his prominent work Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy, Barry Posen summarizes a widespread view among traditional security studies scholars, noting that there 'might be an argument that such problems [like climate change] strongly affect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, power position, and safety of the United States…[but] this needs to be demonstrated, not assumed.'"
Developers got backing for affordable housing. Then the neighborhood found out.
Author:
Jason DeParle
Quoted: “A lot has changed in American life over the past 50 years, but the hostility to affordable housing has remained surprisingly durable,” said Justin Steil, associate professor of law and urban planning and steering member of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration.
A careful rethinking of the Iraq War
Author:
Peter Dizikes
The Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Roger Petersen's new book details military operations and political dynamics in Iraq, shedding new light on the challenges of state-building.
Learning and listening in Amazonia
Author:
Talia Khan
Talia Khan, a former MISTI MIT-Brazil student, documented their experience returning to the Amazon rainforest with 80 fellow MIT musicians.
Video: Can Ukraine keep up the fight against Russia, two years after the invasion?
Carol Savietz, senior advisor for MIT's Security Studies Program, joined Gautam Mukunda to discuss the state of the war after nearly two years, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and hundreds of billions in foreign aid from the US.
How misinformation and disinformation spread, the role of AI, and how we can guard against them
Author:
Taylor McNeil
Director of the Seminar XXI program, Kelly M Greenhill, shows how to tell the true from the false, and what it means for politics.
Nourishing the mind, hand, and stomach
Author:
Angelina Parrillo
MIT senior Branden Spitzer explains how his love of food and cooking unlocked his interest in materials science and engineering. Through MISTI, Branden has spent time in the UK, Brazil, and South Africa, and is studying in Denmark this semester.