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      • Bannai, Hussein
      • Banuazizi, Ali
      • Behrouzan, Orkideh
      • Burkadze, Khatuna
      • Davis, Diane
      • Fallon, William J.
      • Gendzier, Irene
      • Gholz, Eugene
      • Gilboy, George
      • Grunitzky, Claude Kossivi
      • Leeds, Elizabeth
      • Malcolm Byrne
      • McCray, Lawrence
      • Michener, Willa
      • Neff, Thomas
      • Orsini, Alessandro
      • Petersen, Arthur
      • Rudenko, Larisa
      • Williams, Cindy
    • Fellows
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      • Lourdes Melgar
      • Okamoto, Yukio
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    • International Migration
      • Seminars
        • International Migration Symposium: 40th Anniversary
      • Activities
        • 2005 Mellon-MIT Grantees
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        • Workshop on the Economics of Forced Migration
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      • 2018
        • An adolescent's foreign policy
        • Keep the Iran deal — 10 good reasons why
        • The rise of illiberal hegemony
        • What can we learn from North Korea’s successful nuclearization?
        • Why North Korea and Iran get accused of nuclear collusion
        • ‘Fire and Fury’ shows Trump’s shifts on China
      • 2017
        • Ai Weiwei: The enemy of walls
        • Beijing’s cruel eviction of its migrant workers
        • China, a model for gender equality? The reality would say otherwise
        • China’s delicate dance with ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘dotard’
        • Is it time for our dealmaker in chief to talk with North Korea?
        • Is war coming to North Korea?
        • North Korea won't be solved without South Korea
        • Protecting America from cyber attacks
        • Revisit NIH biosafety guidelines
        • Should you be worried about North Korea?
        • The price of war with North Korea
        • Trump and Xi forge a friendship with a frightening edge
        • Trump intervened with Xi on UCLA players. But what about human rights activists?
        • Trump’s military budget minus a plan
        • US-Japan Relationship: Past, Present, and Future
        • What Next For Kurdistan?
      • 2016
        • Impose an arms embargo in South Sudan
        • North Korea ramps up nuclear readiness
        • Sanders’ surge is part of a growing global movement
        • Saudi allies sever ties with Iran
        • South Asian nuclear tensions: Back to core issues
        • The lines that have been crossed
        • The strategic implications of the South China Sea tribunal’s award
      • 2015
        • Contain ISIS
        • Is it fascism? obloquy run amok
        • Putin’s war of words, decoded
        • Science and the republicans' annulment of the Enlightenment
        • The Pentagon’s bloat
        • The human cost of war
        • Why Paris?
      • 2014
        • Chinese signaling in the East China Sea?
        • Crimes against humanity: why we must never become numb to the phrase
        • ISIS continues dramatic takeover of territory in Iraq
        • Imagining invasion on Vladimir Putin’s doorstep
        • India's new leader faces old scars
        • It will take more than natural resources for Africa to rise
        • Leave Iran's missiles out of nuclear talks
        • Nations everywhere are exploiting the lack of cybersecurity
        • Putin in July (or the fight for Russia’s soul)
        • The Ukrainian paradox
        • The case for doing nothing in Iraq
        • The legacy of unlearned lessons, and the current crisis in Iraq
        • When your work suddenly comes home
        • Why India must stay the nuclear hand
        • Smallpox: the long goodbye
      • Older
        • '24' on the brain
        • 100,000 dead in Iraq
        • A blind eye to justice in Cambodia
        • A floundering WTO
        • A focus on facts ought to dispel mistrust of US Muslims
        • A new Cold War with Iran?
        • An inspiration against nuclear arms
        • Diversifying Iraqi security forces
        • Don't put nuclear waste on military bases
        • Double-speak on missile defense
        • Draft lessons from Europe
        • Europe cannot advance on two fronts
        • Fighting blind in Iraq
        • Flawed military model, made in the USA
        • Foreseeing a bloody siege in Baghdad
        • Forget the draft: fix the volunteer force and they will come
        • Generations have been decimated; who will be left to rebuild the nation?
        • Gujarat: a plea and a proposal
        • Gunning for reform
        • Hegemon down
        • Impunity from My Lai to Abu Ghraib
        • In Iraq, the losses Americans don't see
        • It is time for the military to live within its means
        • Japan's Jujitsu leader
        • Making the cuts, keeping the benefits
        • Many hidden costs line national security path
        • Mexico's dangerous political chasm
        • More troops for what?
        • México visto desde fuera: democracia en perspectiva
        • México visto desde fuera: los límites de la democracia
        • No to Africa command
        • One island, divided
        • Paying the costs in Iraq
        • Political polarization will strengthen Mexican democracy
        • Redeploy the dollars
        • Strategy for the terror war
        • Surge could push troops to breaking point
        • The caste system- India's apartheid?
        • The changing face of Chinese diplomacy
        • The heavy price of censorship
        • The inspections flap: both sides are wrong
        • The more muscular Japan
        • The politics of chicken littleism
        • The risks of staying vs. leaving Iraq
        • The rogue that plays by the rules
        • The violence of development
        • Transatlantic crisis will hurt arms industry
        • UN credibility at stake
        • US has window to skip weapon generation
        • Violence in Iraq
        • We can live with a nuclear Iran
        • Weighing the cost of today's defense strategy
        • Why believe it this time?
    • Books
    • Audits
      • 'New fighting power!' for Japan?
      • A better strategy against narcoterrorism
      • A double standard on nuclear weapons?
      • A solution for the US–Iran nuclear standoff
      • Afghanistan: elections, McCrystal report, & the Taliban
      • All weapons of mass destruction are not equal
      • Artificial life: a global good or evil?
      • Attack of the drones
      • Budgets to make America safer
      • Can scientific codes of conduct deter bioweapons?
      • Channel surfing: non-engagement as foreign policy
      • China’s energy governance: perception and reality
      • China’s premature rise to great power
      • Cutting aid to Africa won't help gay rights
      • Debating US interests in Syria's civil war
      • Distracted at the creation: Washington’s China policy
      • Does the “surge” explain Iraq’s improved security?
      • Fewer missions, not more troops
      • Filling the army's ranks for the Iraq War
      • Future of the euro: threats and opportunities
      • Good and bad news on global development
      • Human bombs: rethinking religion and terror
      • Immigration and insecurity: post-9/11 fear in the United States
      • Immigration reform: failure and prospects
      • Improving Iran-US relations
      • Insights into two American empires
      • Internally displaced populations: the paradox of national responsibility
      • Introducing a series
      • Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline: is it a peace pipeline?
      • Iran-US: the case for transformation
      • Iran: rogue state?
      • Iran’s nuclear program: a race between sanctions and centrifuges?
      • Iraq's three civil wars
      • Iraq’s political factions: the last chance to build a governing coalition?
      • Is Iran's reform movement dead?
      • Is Port Security funding making us safer?
      • Is the foreign policy process working?
      • Israel-Palestine: great expectations or misplaced euphoria?
      • Japan-China relations: four fallacies masquerading as common sense
      • Much ado about nothing: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
      • Multilateral imposition: an immodest proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      • North Korea: negotiations work
      • Obama's strategy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia
      • Pakistan’s governance imperative
      • Paying for homeland security: show me the money
      • Raising the salience of Mexico and Canada
      • Recovering the liberal foreign policy tradition
      • Regionalizing the Iraq conflict?
      • Remittances: Latin America's faulty lifeline
      • Russia and America: is another arms race afoot?
      • Russia: an energy superpower?
      • State-building and US foreign policy
      • Sudan at the crossroads
      • The Iraq War: do civilian casualties matter?
      • The US and Iran after the NIE
      • The US and Iran in Afghanistan: policy gone awry
      • The US-India nuclear deal: triumph of the business lobby
      • The United States as an Asian power: realism or conceit?
      • The War on Terror and the Cold War: they're not the same
      • The global financial crisis and obstacles to US eadership
      • The hidden cost of homeland defense
      • The mirage of a united Europe
      • The war on terror: forgotten lessons from World War II
      • Troop levels in stability operations: what we don’t know
      • Turkey: misperceptions and the healing touch of democracy
      • Turkey’s crisis and future
      • US and Colombia: a growing military intervention?
      • US military power: strong enough to deter all challenges?
      • Violence and insecurity: the challenge in the global south
      • Waiting for Goldilocks: getting Japan’s foreign policy just right
      • We can live with a nuclear Iran
      • Who failed whom? Assessing the UN’s human rights efforts
      • Who leads Russia?
      • Who needs the UN?
      • Why US national security requires mideast peace
      • Why do Islamist groups become transnational and violent?
      • Why intelligence isn't to blame for 9/11
      • Why is the defense budget so big?
      • Wilson and the founders: the roots of liberal foreign policy
      • Wilson, Bush, and the evolution of liberal foreign policy
      • Wilson’s radical vision for global governance
    • Research Activities
      • Asia-Pacific Crisis Simulations
      • Asian Security Challenges
      • The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition
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      • Alliance formation in civil wars
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      • Buying national security: how America plans and pays for its global role and safety at home
      • CIS turns 60
      • Chinese anti-Japan protests
      • Civil-military relations under President Trump
      • Claiming the state
      • Cyberpolitics in international relations
      • Deaths of others
      • Democratic insecurities: violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti
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      • Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
      • Global financial crisis
      • Insurgent organizational structure
      • Japan's dance with the dragon and the bear
      • Japan's democratic party strives for normalcy
      • Learning to be capitalists
      • Making in America
      • Much ado about decline
      • Nosy Neighbors: Regional Interference in Great Power Interventions
      • Not in your backyard: understanding state action against violent non-state actors
      • Nuclear strategy in the modern era
      • Publicity-driven accountability in China
      • Roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
      • Selective leviathans
      • The dictator's army
      • The pioneering role of CIS in American war gaming
      • The right to kill?
      • Thinking clearly about China's economic statecraft
      • Threat Perception and Immigration Reform in the United States
      • Trump's Victory: What Does It Mean for You?
      • US control of the commons in a US–China conflict
      • Western intervention in the Balkans
      • What kind of capitalism?
      • What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
      • Why clerics turn deadly
      • Why do violent substate conflicts spread?
      • precis Interview: Eric Heginbotham
      • precis Interview: James E Baker
      • precis Interview: Lourdes Melgar
      • precis Interview: Lourdes Melgar
      • précis Interview: Ben Ross Schneider
      • précis Interview: Chappell Lawson
      • précis Interview: Chappell Lawson
      • précis Interview: Cindy Williams
      • précis Interview: David Miliband
      • précis Interview: Diane Davis
      • précis Interview: Fotini Christia
      • précis Interview: Frank Gavin
      • précis Interview: JoAnn Carmin
      • précis Interview: Joel Brenner
      • précis Interview: Paul Heer
      • précis Interview: Philip Khoury
      • précis Interview: Regina Bateson
      • précis Interview: Richard Nielsen
      • précis Interview: Vipin Narang
  • Events + Seminars
    • Starr Forum
      • Upcoming Events
      • Event Archive
        • 2018
          • 70 Years: Israel-Palestine – Reflections & Forecasts
          • Starr Forum: Artificial Intelligence and National Security Law: A Dangerous Nonchalance
            • Starr Forum: Artificial Intelligence and National Security Law: A Dangerous Nonchalance
          • Starr Forum: Is Democracy Dying?
            • Starr Forum: Is Democracy Dying?
          • Starr Forum: Mexico-USA Relations
          • Starr Forum: The Uncondemned
          • Starr Forum: The Uncounted: Civilian victims of America’s wars
            • Starr Forum: The Uncounted: Civilian victims of America’s wars
          • Starr Forum: US-Russian Relations: What's Next?
          • Starr Forum: Women's Empowerment: Are Global Development Organizations Helping or Hurting?
        • 2017
          • Starr Forum: Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil's Assertive Foreign Policy
          • Starr Forum: Amour
          • Starr Forum: Behavioral Science and Nudges: Environmental Protection and Sustainability
          • Starr Forum: Brexit, Europe, and Trump
            • Starr Forum: Brexit, Europe, and Trump
          • Starr Forum: Caché
          • Starr Forum: Digital Innovation and Africa
          • Starr Forum: National Security & Civil Liberties: 1942 & 2017
          • Starr Forum: North Korea
            • Starr Forum: North Korea
          • Starr Forum: Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate, Political Climate
          • Starr Forum: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
            • Starr Forum: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
          • Starr Forum: Solving America's and China's North Korea Problem?
          • Starr Forum: Somaliland (Sneak Preview)
          • Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
            • Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
          • Starr Forum: The Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
          • Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon
            • Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon
          • Starr Forum: The White Ribbon
          • Starr Forum: US & Mexico in the Trump Era
          • Starr Forum: Warnings
            • Starr Forum: Warnings
        • 2016
          • Starr Forum: 3.11: Five Years After the Triple Disaster in Northeastern Japan
          • Starr Forum: African Repats
          • Starr Forum: Bitcoin and the Global Economy
          • Starr Forum: Confronting the China Cyber Challenge
          • Starr Forum: Security, Privacy, & the Internet
          • Starr Forum: The Struggle Against Terrorism
          • Starr Forum: Trump’s Victory: What does it mean for you?
          • Starr Forum: Honor Killings: Why They Won't End
          • Starr Forum: Human Rights & Technology
          • Starr Forum: Paris Climate Talks: Now What?
          • Starr Forum: Racism, Violence, & Democracy
          • Starr Forum: SOLD
          • Starr Forum: The Warming Arctic: Site of a New "Cold War"?
          • Starr Forum: With Friends Like These
        • 2015
          • Starr Forum: Demystifying ISIS
          • Starr Forum: East Asian Security Dilemma
          • Starr Forum: Evolving Security Dynamics in Asia
          • Starr Forum: Friday Flicks
          • Starr Forum: Friday Flicks
          • Starr Forum: Global Refugee Crisis
          • Starr Forum: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
          • Starr Forum: Religion & Violence
          • Starr Forum: Science & Innovation Diplomacy
          • Starr Forum: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
        • Older
          • Starr Forum: "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" Book Talk with Kai Bird
          • Starr Forum: Forced Labor in the Global Economy
          • Starr Forum: Enemies of the People
          • Starr Forum: Peace Meals
          • Starr Forum: "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War" Book Talk with Andrew Bacevich
          • Starr Forum: 30th Anniversary of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration
          • Starr Forum: A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon, Former Head of CENTCOM
          • Starr Forum: A Conversation with Kanan Makiya
          • Starr Forum: A Report Card on the War on Terror
          • Starr Forum: A US Invasion of Iraq: Consequences and Scenarios
          • Starr Forum: A special event with the Boston Review "Debating the Future of US Foreign Policy"
          • Starr Forum: Afghanistan
          • Starr Forum: Afghanistan: Mending It Not Just Ending It
          • Starr Forum: Africa Rebooted
          • Starr Forum: Allah's Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror
          • Starr Forum: American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack
          • Starr Forum: An American in China
          • Starr Forum: Arab Spring and its Impact on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
          • Starr Forum: Attack of the Drones:
          • Starr Forum: Beyond a Militarized Approach to Terrorism: Experience from Sri Lanka
          • Starr Forum: Book Talk: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
          • Starr Forum: Border Security in the 21st Century
          • Starr Forum: Brazil, 50 Years After the Coup
          • Starr Forum: Bringing King to China (and MIT) a film screening
          • Starr Forum: Can Democracy Survive in the Middle East?
          • Starr Forum: Chomsky on Gaza
          • Starr Forum: Climate Security: A conversation with Denmark's Ambassador to the US
          • Starr Forum: Cold War Cinema
          • Starr Forum: Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis | The Exhibit
          • Starr Forum: Death of the News?
          • Starr Forum: Dissolving War: Women as Peacemakers
          • Starr Forum: Documented
          • Starr Forum: Don't Be an American Idiot
          • Starr Forum: Egypt's Revolution
          • Starr Forum: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
          • ADVANTAGE: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge
          • BUDRUS
          • Cambodian Dream: Rebuilding Cambodia by Empowering its Women
          • Sovereign Debt and the IMF: The case of Russia
          • Starr Forum: China, the US and the Worldwide Search for Energy Security
          • Starr Forum: Film Series 2008: Women and the Middle East
          • Window to My World 4: Winds of Change in Galilee
          • Starr Forum: Foreign Policy and the Next US Administration: America's Defining Moment
          • Starr Forum: Fostering Global Citizenship: Future Scientists on Science in an Age of Terrorism
          • Starr Forum: Haiti: Moving Forward After Failed Transitions
          • Starr Forum: Healthcare Policy and the Next US Administration
          • Starr Forum: Hidden Battles
          • Starr Forum: How to Start a Revolution
          • Starr Forum: Immigration, Islam, and the West
          • Starr Forum: Implications of an Avian Flu Pandemic
          • Starr Forum: In Between: A One Man Show In Between by Ibrahim Miari
          • Starr Forum: Indian Ocean: The vortex of destiny
          • Starr Forum: Inequality and Instability
          • Starr Forum: Inside Tahrir Squar
          • Starr Forum: Iran, North Korea and the Second Nuclear Age
          • Starr Forum: Iran: Images from Beneath a Chador
          • Starr Forum: Iraq and North Korea: A Former Insider Assesses US Policy
          • Starr Forum: Iraq's Three Civil Wars: Is the US Relevant to Them?
          • Starr Forum: Iraq: What Next?
          • Starr Forum: Is the Terrorist Threat a Fake?
          • Starr Forum: Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
          • Starr Forum: Israeli TV anchor Chaim Yavin on his documentary "Land of the Settlers"
          • Starr Forum: Japan's Nuclear Crisis
          • Starr Forum: Junk Food and the Modern Mind
          • Starr Forum: Just Back from Iraq: Observations of a Weapons Inspector
          • Starr Forum: Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West
          • Starr Forum: Libya: Armed Conflict and its Aftermath
          • Starr Forum: Looking Beyond the Veil
          • Starr Forum: MIT/Harvard Gaza Symposium
          • MIT/Harvard Gaza series: America's Reponse
          • Starr Forum: Mia Kirshner on "I Live Here"
          • Starr Forum: National Security and Civil Liberties
          • Starr Forum: No End In Sight Film Screening
          • Starr Forum: Noam Chomsky on Gaza in Crisis
          • Starr Forum: Palestine Now
          • Starr Forum: Palestinian Statehood and the UN
          • Starr Forum: Prospects for Mideast Peace in the Post-Arafat Era
          • Starr Forum: Rebuilding Haiti
          • Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
          • Starr Forum: Reflections on the One-Year Anniversary of 9/11
          • Starr Forum: Report Card on President Obama: Climate, Afghanistan, and the Economy
          • Starr Forum: Reporters' Notebook: The US in Iraq
          • Starr Forum: Revisiting Port Huron
          • Starr Forum: Saudi Arabia and the Global Community
          • Starr Forum: Science Policy and the Next US Administration
          • Starr Forum: Screening of Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism
          • Starr Forum: Showdown in the Sonoran Desert
          • Starr Forum: Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
          • Starr Forum: Swiss Ambassador to the UN: Challenges Facing the United Nations
          • Starr Forum: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Causes, Implications and Prospects for Resolution
          • Starr Forum: The Ayalon-Nuseibeh Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Co-Existence
          • Starr Forum: The Battle of Algiers Film Screening
          • Starr Forum: The Big Question: How and When to Exit Iraq
          • Starr Forum: The Challenges to the Global Economy
          • Starr Forum: The Collapse
          • Starr Forum: The Colombian Civil War and US Policy
          • Starr Forum: The Endless Present
          • Starr Forum: The Failings of the Media on Iraq
          • Starr Forum: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
          • Starr Forum: The Israeli-Palestinian Stalemate
          • Starr Forum: The Most Important Number in the World
          • Starr Forum: The Network
          • Starr Forum: The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq
          • Starr Forum: The Republican Party and American Foreign Policy
          • Starr Forum: The Rise of China
          • Starr Forum: The Shah
          • Starr Forum: The Sudan Crisis and Human Security Speaker: Francis Deng
          • Starr Forum: The US and China: A Coming Conflict?
          • Starr Forum: The War with Iraq: Conduct and Consequence
          • Starr Forum: The War with Iraq: Implications for US Alliances and International Institutions
          • Starr Forum: Top Secret America
          • Starr Forum: US, Iraq, and the Future of Kurdistan
          • Starr Forum: US-Cuba Relations: The beginning of a long thaw?
          • Starr Forum: US-Iran Relations
          • Starr Forum: Ukraine: What's Next?
          • Starr Forum: War with Iraq
          • Starr Forum: Water: Casus Belli or Source of Cooperation? The Middle East Water Project
          • Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy?
          • Starr Forum: Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
          • Starr Forum: Why Nations Fail
          • Starr Forum: Yemen: Avoiding the Mistakes and Learning the Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan
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    • Bustani Middle East Seminar
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    • News Releases
      • Posen named Kissinger Chair at Kluge Center
      • African technology and innovation leaders visit MIT
      • British journalist Louisa Reynolds joins CIS
      • An ecological risk research agenda for synthetic biology
      • Former NSA Inspector General joins CIS
      • Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka joins MIT
      • Former national security advisor of India joins CIS
      • Gradual versus binary drug licensing process
      • Indonesian journalist joins CIS
      • International Policy Lab requests proposals
      • Journalist Meera Srinivasan joins CIS
      • Journalist from India joins CIS
      • Juma receives Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize
      • MIT Japan 3/11 initiative receives grant
      • New genome editing strategy for ecosystems
      • Prominent East Asia Expert Joins CIS
      • Recent national intelligence officer joins CIS
      • Samuels receives the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star
      • Sharon Stanton Russell, 68, pioneering academic
      • Yukio Okamoto joins CIS
      • "Visions for Peace in Jerusalem" conference at MIT April 8-9, 2005
      • 'Deaths of others' in America's wars
      • Abbas Maleki joins CIS as Wilhelm Fellow
      • Admiral Fallon, former US CENTCOM Commander, joins MIT's Center for International Studies
      • Advance screening of Discovery Channel's Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism
      • Ambassador Bodine joins MIT's Center for International Studies
      • Ambassador Bodine joins MIT's Center for International Studies
      • Australian journalist named Neuffer Fellow, joins CIS
      • BBC journalist joins CIS
      • Broad Institute hosts screening of CIS scholar's film on Iraq
      • CIS Starr Forum hosts events with former foreign ministers
      • CIS announces joint EMA-NEWDIGS research project
      • CIS regrets actions of Iranian authorities
      • CIS scholar garners awards from Guggenheim and Carnegie
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