David Dolev, assistant director of MISTI and managing director of MIT-Israel, was honored with the Excellence Award for Advancing Inclusion and Global Perspectives; The Center hosted three seminars for the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration; Serenella Sferza, co-director of the MIT-Italy Program, received a SHASS Infinite Mile award this year in the "Great Ideas" category; The Center launched a lecture series honoring the late human-rights activist Hrant Dink; The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows, among them MIT's Fotini Christia.

In contrast to the conventional wisdom that treats the Chinese as if they were a unified, equally nationalistic group, my research finds that Chinese citizens participated in anti–Japan protests for drastically different reasons—many of which had little to do with Chinese nationalism.

Joel Brenner, former inspector general and senior counsel at the National Security Agency (NSA), joined CIS as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow. He discusses his work in law and public service, his interest in technology and policy, and what he is doing at CIS.