CIS is delighted to announce our new location at MIT Bldg E40-400; MIT's Global Council released two reports that will help frame MIT's international engagement strategy for years to come; The Center has joined together with the Watson Institute at Brown and the Weatherhead Center at Harvard to launch a new Inter-University Seminar on South Asian Politics; The Center brought the world-traveling exhibit, DARFUR/DARFUR, to MIT campus; Photojournalist Randy Hope Goodman shared her images and discussed her work, Iran: Images From Beneath a Chador; The Center is undertaking a year-long assessment of the UN’s mandate on women and security—namely, UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

JoAnn Carmin is associate professor of environmental policy and planning at the Department of Urban Studies at MIT. She also heads the Center's new Program on Environmental Governance and Sustainability (PEGS). She discusses with precis the mission of PEGS, her work on climate change adaptation, and her future plans. 

The global financial crisis that began in 2007 is a once-in-a-lifetime event with wide-ranging consequences for government policymaking. The crisis has prompted much soul-searching among economists and financial experts who failed to anticipate it, or whose warnings were not taken seriously by regulators and investors.