Radio: 'Grand Delusion' with Steven Simon on Monday's Access Utah
Author:
Tom Williams
CIS Wilhelm Fellow Steven Simon joined Tom Williams on Utah Public Radio to discuss his new book Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East.
Podcast: Bureaucracies, dictatorships, and the power of Africa’s people
President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.
A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
“Dick Samuels built the CIS into a vibrant incubator of ideas, an engine of scholarly output and policy relevance, and a place where fierce debates could occur while friendships were forged. This is the institution that Evan Lieberman, one of the department’s most creative and entrepreneurial members, will soon take in exciting new directions,” says David Singer, head of the Department of Political Science and Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science.
In a time of war, a new effort to help
Author:
Peter Dizikes
MIT-Ukraine program leaders describe the work they are undertaking as they shape a novel project to help a country in crisis.
China pushes largest-ever expansion of nuclear arsenal
Author:
AFP
Quoted: "The changes that are taking place or under way are very significant" and "will turn China from a state that has a nuclear retaliatory capability to one that is the world's third major nuclear power", Eric Heginbotham, Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies, told AFP.
Boosting passenger experience and increasing connectivity at the Hong Kong International Airport
Author:
Danna Lorch
Recently, a cohort of 36 students from MIT and universities across Hong Kong came together for the MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI), an intense two-week startup boot camp hosted at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node. MEMSI is a collaboration among the MIT Innovation Initiative, the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, and Project Manus.
Arrest in leaked classified documents investigation shocks neighbors in Dighton
Author:
Michael Yoshida, Caroline Goggin, and Keke Vencill
Quoted: Speaking with 7NEWS, security expert Barry Posen said the leak was “a really colossal screw up on somebody’s part.”
A scathing critique of US Middle East policy, from Carter to Biden
Author:
Andrew Exum
Steven Simon's merciless new history of American engagement in the Middle East from Jimmy Carter to Joe Biden spares few: In the estimation of the author, no American policymakers, across Republican or Democratic administrations, have much to be proud of.
Why Putin’s attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure could backfire
Author:
Peter Rutland
Quoted: MIT Professor Barry Posen describes the bombing campaign as “well executed” and “cunningly effective,” serving to divert Ukraine’s resources away from preparing offensive operations.
Paying the defense bill: Financing American and Chinese geostrategic competition
Author:
Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Samuel Gerstle
Quoted: As Barry Posen writes, “Restraint would contribute to the U.S. economy by saving significant amounts of money, which could be reallocated to restoring the fiscal health of the country, whether that is a short-term or long-term problem.”