The Center participated in the MIT 150 Open House; 46 international faculty research collaborations will receive more than $900,000 from the 2010-2011 MISTI Global Seed Funds competition; senior faculty and researchers from CIS and DUSP's CoLab are building an initiative to promote sustainable economic development of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Basin; The Brazil-MIT Forum/Conferência Brasil-MIT inaugural meeting was held at MIT; The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration hosted two talks.

The recent collapse of the authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt—and the wave of anti-authoritarian protests in numerous other Arab countries—has reacquainted scholars and policymakers with a long-known truth: Unrest in one country sometimes spreads to another.

Rt Hon David Miliband MP joined CIS as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow in Residence from April 11 through April 15, 2011. Miliband was the Foreign Secretary for the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and is an alumnus of the Department of Political Science at MIT.
Among the topics discussed in the interview are: the reasons he came back to MIT; suggestions about how academics might better bridge the gap between research and political action; and the key elements of his vision for the future of Afghanistan.