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      • 2023
        • A better way to protect free speech on campus
        • As Blinken visits Israel amid violence, US confirms drone attacks on Iran
        • Biden is about to have his hands full in the Middle East
        • Can you sanctions-proof a government?
        • Did the unipolar moment ever end?
        • HR 3202: Analyzing legislative efforts to block Arab engagement with Syria
        • Is Saudi-Israeli normalization worth it?
        • Japan takes another step toward expanding defense exports
        • Japan, China hold Foreign Minister call days after NATO chief’s visit
        • Kishida’s trip to Middle East focuses on energy, defense cooperation
        • Lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
        • Nuclear war theory: Continuity and change
        • Pushing on an open door: Japan’s evolutionary security posture
        • Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia after the invasion of Ukraine
        • Russia's rebound
        • Rwanda plan is in legal limbo, but history shows such migration deals are unlikely to disappear
        • Sudan’s generals are dragging the country toward disaster
        • The cost of 'normalcy': Updating Japan's national security
        • The failed “coup-proofing” behind the recent violence in Sudan
        • The myth of Chinese diversionary war
        • The real intervention Haiti needs
        • The threat of civil breakdown is real
        • Ukraine Has a Breakthrough Problem
        • Why security assistance often fails
        • Why we believe the US still has the upper hand in a war over Taiwan
        • With Visits to Sri Lanka, Maldives, Japan Seeks to Shore up Indian Ocean Presence
        • You can go home again: A proposal for phased military withdrawal from Iraq and normalizing US–Iraq relations
      • 2022
        • A few members of the Russian Parliament speak out against the war.
        • A major Ukrainian internet provider reports a cyberattack.
        • After Abe, Japan tries to balance ties to the US and China
        • Aid organizations say they are seeing signs of trafficking of people fleeing Ukraine.
        • As Brazil’s election day approaches, fear of violence grows
        • Attacking Russia in Ukraine means war
        • Bolsonaro and Lula are heading to second round in Brazil election
        • Boots on the ground, eyes in the sky
        • CIS mourns the loss of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
        • Can Russia and the West survive a nuclear crisis in Ukraine?
        • Causing crisis works
        • China and India need to reimagine what is possible on the border
        • China's COVID protests are powerful, but they cannot challenge Xi Jinping's regime
        • Do armed drones reduce terrorism? Here’s the data.
        • Enhancing strategic stability in Southern Asia
        • Five books that illuminate the agony and uncertainty of civilians caught in wars
        • For this border crisis, Poles extend a warm welcome, unlike last time.
        • Four EU countries expel dozens of Russian diplomats suspected of espionage.
        • From 1994: Posen's "A Defense Concept for Ukraine"
        • Here’s what Western leaders need to remember about Zelensky’s emotional appeals
        • History as it happens: Invisible carnage
        • How the killing of Iran’s top general squandered US leverage in Iraq today
        • How the war complicates Biden's Iran diplomacy
        • How the war in Ukraine could get much worse
        • How to avoid a war over Taiwan
        • Hypotheses on the implications of the Ukraine-Russia War
        • In Poland, protesters demand a ban on road cargo traffic between the EU and Russia and Belarus.
        • Kishida Becomes First Japanese PM to Attend NPT Review Conference
        • Letting go of Afghanistan: Presidents Biden and Trump were right
        • Let’s not grant Saudi Arabia a blank check for American support
        • Major flip in Iraqi government this week: could crisis be over?
        • Moqtada al-Sadr, called on his bluff, retreats for now
        • More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from areas near Kyiv and the city of Sumy.
        • NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe has been building rapidly.
        • NPT conference collapse, military drills further strain Japan-Russia relations
        • Pentagon says Poland’s fighter jet offer is not ‘tenable.’
        • Poland will propose a NATO peacekeeping mission for Ukraine at the alliance’s meeting this week.
        • Putin’s misleading hairsplitting about who can join NATO
        • Republicans will quit any nuclear deal with Iran, scholar predicts
        • Reviving war-game scholarship at MIT
        • Russia, Ukraine, and European security
        • Russian forces abducted four Ukrainian journalists, a union says.
        • Sanctions won't end Russia's war in Ukraine
        • Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
        • Should the United States pledge to defend Taiwan?
        • The American conspiracy against Pakistan that never existed
        • The Falklands War at 40: A lesson for our time
        • The Russian sanctions regime and the risk of catastrophic success
        • The Russo-Ukrainian war’s dangerous slide into total societal conflict
        • The UN has documented at least 3,924 Ukrainian civilian deaths in the war.
        • The clashing narratives that keep the US and Iran at odds
        • The dawn of drone diplomacy
        • The ghosts of history haunt the Russia-Ukraine crisis
        • The latest round of sanctions on Russia
        • The new Iraqi PM is a status quo leader, but for how long?
        • The real fallout from the Mar-a-Lago search
        • The rewards of rivalry: US-Chinese competition can spur climate progress
        • The risk of Russian chemical weapons use
        • There is no NATO open-door policy
        • These disunited states
        • Think COVID has stunted growth? Try 30 years of conflict.
        • To prevent war and secure Ukraine, make Ukraine neutral
        • US public prefers diplomacy over war on Ukraine
        • Ukraine needs solutions, not endless war
        • Ukraine war
        • Ukraine war revives anxiety about nuclear conflict
        • Ukraine: Three divergent stands, three scenarios
        • Ukraine: Unleashing the rhetorical dogs of war
        • Ukraine’s celebrities are dying in the war, adding an extra dimension to the nation’s shock.
        • Ukraine’s implausible theories of victory
        • Uncovering the strategic aspects of Sino-India ties
        • Watching war in real time, one TikTok at a time
        • We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone
        • We need to think the unthinkable about our country
        • What Putin’s nuclear threats mean for the US
        • What ever happened to our fear of Armageddon?
        • What is America's interest in the Ukraine war?
        • What to expect from Biden’s big Middle East trip
        • When migrants become weapons
        • Why Putin went straight for the nuclear threat
        • Why the US wants a ban on ASAT missile testing
        • Xi broke the social contract that helped China prosper
      • 2021
        • A Middle East Forum can help Biden succeed
        • A liberal case for seapower?
        • A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!
        • After the apocalypse: US nuclear policy
        • America’s Alliances: Achieving Common Ends
        • Beyond forever war
        • Can Europe defend itself?
        • Can the world change course on climate?
        • China and India are pulling back from the brink. They’ve created a buffer zone and started talks.
        • China’s nuclear arsenal is growing. What does that mean for US-China relations?
        • Commercial satellites — not US intelligence — revealed China’s missile program
        • Don't count your submarines before they're built
        • Don't knock yourself out: How America can turn the tables on China by giving up the fight for command of the seas
        • Don’t sink the nuclear submarine deal
        • Freedom of navigation operations: A mission for unmanned systems
        • How Americans' views of the military have changed over 20 years
        • How Japan is falling short
        • How can we neutralize the militias?
        • How not to win allies and influence geopolitics
        • How the US could really help Haiti
        • In Europe's new humanitarian crisis, border security is prioritized over human rights
        • India’s farm protests turned violent last week. But why are farmers protesting in the first place?
        • Is US foreign policy too hostile to China?
        • Is Washington right to leave Afghanistan?
        • Morocco ‘weaponized’ migration to punish Spain. That’s more common than you think.
        • Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa won't be silenced
        • Politicians aren’t usually saints. But Pope Francis just put one on the path to sainthood.
        • Private eyes in the sky
        • Public-private partnerships key to providing high-quality broadband to all
        • Russia: A problem, not a threat
        • Russia’s new crises on the periphery
        • Sole purpose is not no first use: Nuclear weapons and declaratory policy
        • Strait of emergency?
        • The Taliban has seized more cities, despite US efforts to build a strong Afghan military. What happened?
        • The Texas abortion law has an Eastern European ring to it
        • The transatlantic relationship: Radical reform is in the US national interest
        • The world needs to quit oil and gas. Africa has an idea: Rich countries first.
        • There is no legal way to stop Trump from ordering a nuclear strike if he wants to, expert says
        • US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained
        • US-China first strike showdown: Rising nuclear tensions
        • Underplaying the China threat
        • Want to fix the Border Patrol? Don't carbon-copy the playbook to reform police
        • What is nuclear China up to?
        • Why America can’t build allied armies
        • Why Iran may be in no hurry to get nuclear weapons even without a nuclear deal
        • Why conservatives turned on the US military
        • Will America ever reckon with the human cost of the Afghanistan War?
      • 2020
        • 4 things that will happen if Kim Jong-un died
        • America and China have hampered peace progress on the Korean peninsula
        • An ode to the humble balcony
        • Beware of Latvians bearing gifts
        • Can the democrats avoid Trump’s China trap?
        • China’s sovereignty obsession
        • Coronavirus halts street protests, but climate activists have a plan
        • Courting war
        • Covid-19 pandemic news stories
        • Covid-19 pandemic news stories
        • Deal-making during the coronavirus pandemic
        • Do pandemics promote peace?
        • Does the global pandemic open new South China Sea opportunities for Beijing? Not really.
        • Don’t classify the FYDP; Budget transparency helps allies, taxpayers
        • Europe can defend itself
        • Europe has kept down pandemic unemployment--and the US hasn’t. Here’s why.
        • Fireflies have a mating problem: The lights are always on
        • Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly
        • How Donald Trump should handle China's growing power
        • How coronavirus will affect the US military
        • How digital contact tracing slowed Covid-19 in East Asia
        • Important Iraqi archives are now back in Baghdad. Where were they, and what happens now?
        • India's Pangong pickle: New Delhi's options after its clash with China
        • Insights from the After iGEM biosecurity policy conference
        • Integrating emerging technology in multinational military operations: The case of artificial intelligence
        • Iraqi protesters will likely push forward despite violence
        • Is it time for a grand strategy of restraint? A debate
        • It’s high time we fought this virus the American way
        • Mike Pompeo criticized China for not respecting its neighbors territorial integrity
        • Pandemic politics: Covid-19 and grand strategy
        • Pandemic politics: Covid-19 and the US military
        • Pandemic politics: How the Future Strategy Forum amplifies the expertise of women
        • Samuels summarizes "Special Duty" in Ambassador Brief
        • Seven bad options to counter state sponsorship of proxies
        • Temperatures at a Florida-size glacier in Antarctica alarm scientists
        • Tension high, altitude higher: Logistical and physiological constraints on the Indo-Chinese border
        • The Middle East in an era of great power competition
        • The future of the Iran nuclear deal
        • The inspector general’s badge of honor
        • Training the Covid-19 cohort: Adapting and preserving social science research
        • Trump and Modi will meet in India this week; here's what to expect
        • Trump’s peace plan is a paradigm shift
        • Tweak ocean ecosystems? Maybe not, study says.
        • Unconditional: The Japanese surrender in World War II
        • Understanding US-China strategic competition
        • Unearthing the stories of yesterday's George Floyds
        • Vipin Narang on the global nuclear landscape: hype and reality
        • We lead three universities. It’s time for drastic action.
        • What the nuclear ban treaty means for America's allies
        • Why are China and India skirmishing at their border? Here’s 4 things to know.
        • Why we can’t be friends with our allies
        • Yemen's proxy wars explained
      • 2019
        • After terrorist attack in Kashmir, will India seek vengeance or de-escalation?
        • Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?
        • Baghdadi’s martyrdom bump
        • China is not an enemy
        • End the ‘Global Gag Rule’
        • Even conservative Iranians want closer ties to the United States
        • Exporting the American dream
        • Great power competition
        • How Donald Trump pushed Iran to the bomb
        • India’s counterforce temptations: strategic dilemmas, doctrine, and capabilities
        • Iraqi protesters demand constitutional change. Can they make it happen?
        • Is a new nuclear age upon us?
        • It is long past time to stop expanding NATO
        • Its monarchy has left Saudi Arabia fragile and unbalanced
        • Japan whack-a-mole foreign policy
        • Jaw–Jaw: A look at the PLA's history of planning for war with Taylor Fravel
        • Learning to embrace an unequal alliance
        • National borders don't stop in the physical world – they're in cyberspace too
        • North Korea and America’s second summit
        • Opinion: Saudi money in US horse racing is the sports next moral jam
        • Russia might regret the US drawdown in Syria
        • Saudi Arabia must dismantle the male guardianship system
        • Serbian journalists are under attack. Does the international community care?
        • The 'new Cold War' with China is way overblown. Here's why.
        • The Hanoi Summit was doomed from the start
        • The Hanoi Summit – we asked Se Young Jang what happens next in US-North Korea relations
        • The ever-evolving importance of Japan’s coast guard
        • The geography of Gulenism in Turkey
        • The role of Iraq’s influential Shiite clerics is changing. Here’s how.
        • The year of living dangerously with nuclear weapons
        • Time to pull US nuclear weapons out of Turkey
        • Tirman featured at “Tyranny Comes Home” symposium
        • Trump aside, what’s the US role in NATO?
        • Trump wants a safe zone in Syria. Is that even possible?
        • Trump's asylum policy is a death sentence for Africans fleeing violence
        • US-China relationship guidelines
        • US–South Korea military negotiations could cost the alliance
        • What digital nerds and bio geeks have to worry about
        • Why India wants to break its decades-old nuclear pledge
        • Why North Korea is testing missiles again
        • Winning the nuclear game against North Korea
        • Winning the nuclear game against Putin’s Russia
        • With trophy hunting, wildlife loses
        • Woods Hole, MIT targeted by Chinese hackers
        • ‘No first use’ nuke policy isn’t dead, but losing sanctity
      • Older
        • Outrage over the culture of rape in India
        • '24' on the brain
        • 'Talk to my eyes, not to my chest'
        • 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
        • Japan's shifting strategic discourse
        • 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
        • Syria’s red line
        • 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
        • Use of chemical weapons could be Syria’s ‘bloody crescendo’
        • Violence in Iraq
        • We can live with a nuclear Iran
        • Weighing the cost of today's defense strategy
        • Why believe it this time?
    • Books
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      • Asia-Pacific Crisis Simulations
      • Asian Security Challenges
      • The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition
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      • 3 Q: Richard Samuels on Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster and its impact 10 years later
      • A World Bank Refresh
      • A sustained debate
      • A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
      • Active defense: China's military strategy since 1949
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      • Blame Games: Malattribution and the Madrid Train Bombings
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      • Buying national security: how America plans and pays for its global role and safety at home
      • CIS turns 60
      • Center for International Studies honors Robert Wilhelm
      • Chinese anti-Japan protests
      • Civil-military relations under President Trump
      • Claiming the state
      • Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
      • Cyberpolitics in international relations
      • Deaths of others
      • Defining Success and Mapping the Road Ahead for Public-Private Partnership and Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
      • Democratic insecurities: violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti
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      • Fear and a pattern of political killing in Russia
      • Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
      • Firms and the state in Chinese overseas investment
      • From South Africa, a success story for democracy
      • Give but also take: China’s Covid-19 vaccine aid
      • Global financial crisis
      • Global policy advice for President Biden
      • Grand delusion: The rise and fall of American ambition in the Middle East
      • Hidden atrocities: The Tokyo trial
      • How elite American university networks affect access to venture capital in Africa
      • Insurgent organizational structure
      • Is an armed conflict imminent?
      • Japan's dance with the dragon and the bear
      • Japan's democratic party strives for normalcy
      • Jeanne Guillemin prize recipients
      • Learning to be capitalists
      • Making in America
      • Much ado about decline
      • National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
      • 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
      • On the constitutional void in Haiti
      • Publicity-driven accountability in China
      • Roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
      • Selective leviathans
      • Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
      • Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
      • Surviving violence in Delhi: How control and predictability affect decision-making
      • The Iraq invasion: Twenty years later
      • The cult of the persuasive: The organizational origins of US strategy in military assistance
      • The dictator's army
      • The domestic roots of Chinese assertiveness
      • The other side of the COIN
      • 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
      • Under duress: The effects of wartime economic isolation
      • Wargaming revival at MIT
      • Western intervention in the Balkans
      • What Next? Challenges ahead for President Biden
      • What kind of capitalism?
      • What might an India-Pakistan war look like?
      • Why clerics turn deadly
      • Why do violent substate conflicts spread?
      • precis Interview: Anat Biletzki
      • precis Interview: Claude Grunitzky
      • precis Interview: Eric Heginbotham
      • precis Interview: Erik Lin-Greenberg
      • precis Interview: James E Baker
      • precis Interview: John Tirman
      • precis Interview: Kelly M Greenhill
      • precis Interview: Lourdes Melgar
      • precis Interview: Lourdes Melgar
      • précis Interview: Admiral Scott Swift
      • 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: Hala Aldosari
      • précis Interview: JoAnn Carmin
      • précis Interview: Joel Brenner
      • précis Interview: Kenneth Oye
      • précis Interview: Mai Hassan
      • précis Interview: Paul Heer
      • précis Interview: Philip Khoury
      • précis Interview: R David Edelman
      • précis Interview: Regina Bateson
      • précis Interview: Richard Nielsen
      • précis Interview: Steven Simon
      • précis Interview: Vipin Narang
  • Events + Seminars
    • Starr Forum
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        • 2023
          • Starr Forum: From Chornobyl to Zaporizhzhia: The Atom and its Impact on Ukraine’s Politics and Security
          • Starr Forum: Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
          • Starr Forum: Iran and the Struggle for 'Normalcy': Woman, Life, Freedom
          • Starr Forum: Rebuilding Ukraine While Under Fire
          • Starr Forum: Reinventing Japan...Again?
          • Starr Forum: The Iraq invasion: Twenty years later
          • Starr Forum: Ukraine and Russia One Year On: The Domestic Impact of the War
        • 2022
          • Starr Forum: #ViralPotentials: How South Asian Women Use TikTok
          • Starr Forum: Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil's Assertive Foreign Policy
          • Starr Forum: Amour
          • Starr Forum: An Update on Russia's War Against Ukraine
          • Starr Forum: Autocracy’s Assault on Press Freedom
          • 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: Energy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine, and Europe in Challenging Times
          • Starr Forum: Governing the Unpredictable: Disasters, the State, and Futures
          • 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: 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: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
          • Starr Forum: Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
          • Starr Forum: Solving America's and China's North Korea Problem?
          • Starr Forum: Somaliland (Sneak Preview)
          • Starr Forum: Speaking Truth to a New Power: Perspectives on the Free Press and Democracy in South Africa
          • Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
            • Starr Forum: Syria: Which way forward?
          • Starr Forum: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the seeds of the new European war
          • Starr Forum: The Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era
          • Starr Forum: The Future of US - China Relations
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        • Biden’s new North Korea policy is an extended hand to Kim Jong Un
        • CWP alum Taylor Fravel on China Power Project Podcast
        • Can the United States work with India to counter China?
        • China amps ups military pressure, but victory is not assured
        • China is building over 100 missile silos in the desert—Is it playing a nuclear “shell game”?
        • China is not looking to start a war with US
        • China miscalculated in provoking a standoff with India
        • China on the brink of "major crisis"
        • China removes tanks and dismantles helipad, easing border tension with India
        • China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile
        • China's reported hypersonic weapon test raises security concerns
        • China’s hypersonic glider weapons test threatens to drive new arms race
        • China’s nuclear build-up: ‘one of the largest shifts in geostrategic power ever’
        • China’s test of hypersonic vehicle is part of a program to rapidly expand strategic and nuclear systems
        • Chinese President Xi Jinping wrests greater control over China's military; revises National Defense Law
        • Choucri connects the dots between technology and geopolitics
        • Community policing in the Global South
        • Could cyberwar make the world safer?
        • Covid-19 disparities and policy preferences
        • Covid-19: All-adult vaccine ploy on day of ingratitude
        • Data flow’s decisive role on the global stage
        • Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
        • Education in Latin America after the pandemic
        • Embarking upon a leadership journey
        • Exploring generations of influence between South Asia and MIT
        • For the first time, NATO is focusing on China
        • Foreign policy advice: Don’t look back
        • Four pivots Joe Biden should make with Russia
        • France, striving for global power, still struggles to get it
        • Gen Mark Milley faces criticism, support over call to Chinese counterpart
        • Global Languages announces new HASS concentration in Korean
        • Global collaboration surges post-pandemic
        • Here's what we can gather about the US nuclear attack submarine collision in the South China Sea
        • How India stood its ground and forced China to end Pangong Tso aggression
        • How Trump will hand off the 'nuclear football' to Biden
        • How close did Chinese warplanes really get to Taiwan?
        • Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
        • Impeachment video shows Pence had 'nuclear football' as he moved away from Capitol riot
        • India sticking to S-400 deal with Russia despite threat of possible US sanctions
        • India-China border row: India continues to upgrade border infrastructure as Chinese PLA looks to pre-empt India
        • Indian and Chinese troops start disengagement at Pangong Tso; experts discuss
        • Indian, Chinese armies begin pullback at LAC
        • Iran eyes Biden but could conflict still erupt with Trump?
        • Iran has done well to resist Trump’s maximum pressure
        • Is the US-Japan alliance still the ‘cornerstone’ of stability in Asia?
        • Justin Steil wins Edgerton Faculty Award
        • Kim Jong Un tries to fortify power In North Korea
        • Kim Jong Un’s North Korea nuclear weapons development puts Biden to the test
        • Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss sparks speculation over health
        • Kim Jong-un defied father's dying wish with alleged assassination of older brother
        • Kim Jong-un health fears: Mystery spot and bandage appear on back of NK leader's head
        • Kishida's picks for top diplomat and rights adviser hint at striking balance on China
        • Latest Microsoft mass hacks highlight challenge for Biden administration
        • Lin-Greenberg is among six SHASS educators to receive 2021 Levitan Teaching Award
        • Loaded language: US denuclearization phrasing puts progress on North Korea in jeopardy
        • MIT and Danish university students unite to envision a more sustainable future
        • MIT-Japan Program establishes the Patricia Gercik Memorial Fund
        • Manaakitanga’s role in New Zealand's low COVID-19 death rate
        • Maritime disputes in East Asia
        • Mariya Grinberg seeks clarity in jargon
        • Melissa Nobles named MIT’s next chancellor
        • Miliband receives the Robert A Muh Alumni Award
        • N Korea’s Kim says to prepare for ‘both dialogue and confrontation’ with US
        • Natanz sidelined by another Israeli attack
        • Networking on a global scale
        • North Korea breaks silence to warn US against 'causing a stink'
        • North Korea claims 'new tactical guided' missiles launched
        • North Korea claims it tested a new guided missile
        • North Korea fires short-range missile eastward into sea, South Korean military says
        • North Korea has entered the chat
        • North Korea missile test casts shadow over Biden administration, Japan Olympics
        • North Korea shows off new submarine-launched missile at military parade
        • North Korea tested a hypersonic missile. Here’s why it matters
        • North Korea tests new long-range cruise missiles that puts Japan in striking distance
        • North Korea threatens to boost nuclear program ahead of drills between US and ‘perfidious’ South
        • North Korea unveils new submarine-launched missile at parade
        • North Korea’s Kim could be planning missile launch to welcome Biden administration
        • North Korea’s new sub missile is first step toward a new ICBM
        • Nuclear proliferation is not fast, but it is frightening
        • Officials from the US and China have met for the first time since Biden took office
        • One year after Galwan: The road ahead for Sino India Relations
        • PhD candidates Campbell-Mohn and Freeman receive Kissinger’s Nolan Prize
        • Putting ideas into action
        • Q&A: The missing piece of the puzzle in manufacturing
        • Questions of national security arise amid uncertainty in DC
        • Reflecting on September 11, 20 years later
        • Remembering Yukio Okamoto
        • Russian influence in the Middle East: A new era?
        • Satellite images appear to show China is making significant progress developing missile silos that could eventually launch nuclear weapons
        • Sought-after ambassador posts unfilled under Biden. Will they go to political allies or veteran diplomats?
        • Sparking studies and conversations in Spain
        • Study reveals mixed reactions about Covid-19 health disparities
        • Taiwan and China: line that Biden must tread is finer than ever
        • Talk of a nuclear deterrent in South Korea
        • The Fukushima disaster was not the turning point many had hoped
        • The Heat: US-ROK relations and global health summit
        • The Impact of Covid-19 on China’s military: A conversation with Taylor Fravel
        • The dangerous confusion over Mazar-i-Sharif
        • The end of America's post-9/11 delusion
        • The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor
        • The new cold war panic
        • Thief, traitor, smuggler, scammer: How the west remembers AQ Khan
        • To arms or to flight?
        • Traveling the world for global health solutions
        • Trump has the authority to launch nuclear weapons — whether Pelosi likes it or not
        • Twenty years after 9/11, are we any smarter?
        • US general says China's hypersonic missile test is 'close' to a Sputnik moment
        • US launches airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Syria
        • US-Russia treaty restricting nuclear weapons extended for 5 years
        • What's next after the Biden-Putin summit?
        • What's really driving China's strategic objectives?
        • What’s the next chapter in Afghanistan?
        • Why India is facing possible US sanctions
        • Why Japan needs more forceful defence
        • Why the governing party election is the main event in Japan
        • Will China surpass the US in military air superiority?
        • With increasing authority, women are gaining space while preaching Islam on the Internet
        • ‘A more general anxiety’: Gun sales soared nationwide in 2020
      • 2020
        • 'PLA was acting with higher approval'
        • 'The war isn’t coming today'
        • 'War and disease travel together': Why the pandemic push for a global cease-fire is gaining ground
        • 3 Questions: Chappell Lawson on US security policy
        • 3 Questions: Fotini Christia on new deal-making in Afghanistan
        • 3 questions with Fotini Christia, the new chair of the social & engineering systems PhD program
        • 4 looming foreign policy crises that could derail Biden’s agenda early on
        • A forum for female voices in international security
        • A look at the national security challenges facing the US in 2020
        • A new approach to studying religion and politics
        • A new world of warcraft
        • A road map for artificial intelligence policy
        • A watershed moment in India-China relations, says MIT's Vipin Narang
        • After Iran strikes back, President Trump indicates a de-escalation
        • America’s allies are becoming a nuclear-proliferation threat
        • America’s invasion of Iraq fuelled militant Islam
        • America’s problem is much bigger than TikTok
        • Amid a pandemic, China picks a border fight with India
        • Anat Biletzki on the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Program
        • Asia greets US shift on South China Sea with hope and doubt
        • Aspiring physician explores the many levels of human health
        • At home and abroad with MISTI 2020
        • Beijing takes its South China Sea strategy to the Himalayas
        • Beyond Harvard prof's arrest, increased scrutiny over research conflicts sparks 'a whole lot of anxiety'
        • Beyond the spectacle: What global think tanks think about NaMoste Trump
        • Biden cabinet picks signal a big shift from the Trump era
        • Biden says US is back at the head of the table
        • Changing balance across LAC trigger for stand-off, says China expert Taylor Fravel
        • China Flexes Territorial Muscle – Recent India border clash signals risk Beijing will take in approach to disputes, experts say
        • China and India agree to ‘disengage troops’ in Himalayas
        • China fires missiles into South China Sea as US sanctions Beijing
        • China fires missiles into South China Sea, sending US a message
        • China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley
        • China may double its nuclear arsenal in just 10 years. Don’t panic.
        • China now trying to put ‘genie back in bottle’
        • China spread virus, India gave fitting reply — Aaj Tak, News18 looks for Chinese army in Noida
        • China's 'grand gestures,' propaganda aim to calm fears about coronavirus
        • China's modern military strategy in historical perspective
        • China, India, and sovereignty in the Himalayas
        • China’s military provokes its neighbors, but the message is for the United States
        • Chinese aggression in Ladakh also a message for domestic and external audience: Experts
        • Democracy in distress?
        • Did the killing of Qassim Suleimani deter Iranian attacks, or encourage them?
        • Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91
        • Dreaming big in a small country
        • Ending the forever wars, by any means necessary
        • Experts debunk fringe theory linking China’s coronavirus to weapons research
        • Experts explain: What triggered China’s recent LAC moves?
        • Fact-checking Tom Cotton's claims about the coronavirus
        • Faculty seed projects grow into pandemic research opportunities
        • Far from being weakened by coronavirus, China pursues sovereignty claims on all fronts
        • Fellowship is at the heart of emergency response in Nigeria
        • Fingers, boots, and lines: Understanding the 2020 India-China border tensions
        • First China, now Pakistan: How India's battling on two fronts
        • For cultural and political conflicts, a humanizing imperative
        • Former inspector general: Trump is attacking the ‘institution’ of oversight
        • Fostering friendships and films from across the globe
        • Fotini Christia named director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
        • France creates first university intelligence chair and masters course on the dark arts of espionage
        • Fresh Pangong lake face-off complicates Jaishankar-Wang’s face-to-face meet
        • George W Bush slips in and out of town as Poodle naps
        • Himalayan flashpoint could spiral out of control as India and China face off
        • Hiroshima's legacy 75 years later
        • History contradicts new Chinese claims over Bhutan's territory
        • How an Iranian cyberattack might start
        • How exiled Saudi Arabian activists are quietly building a resistance movement
        • Huge rally will highlight Trump’s visit to India
        • Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile—think tank
        • India and China meet to defuse Himalayan border tensions
        • India and China trade barbs after ‘gang war’ high in the Himalayas
        • India has closed military gap with China along border
        • India looks to continuity in ties under Biden, experts expect rebalancing in some areas
        • India reinforces contested region as China holds ground, sources say
        • India-China agree to disengage at Galwan Valley; experts discuss the road ahead
        • India-China clash: An extraordinary escalation 'with rocks and clubs'
        • India-China standoff: Prof M Taylor Fravel speaks on the false claim of Galwan by China
        • Inspectors general: oversight, authority, and removal with Joel Brenner
        • Intervention or restraint: Ruger and Posen debate Kristol and Flournoy
        • Iran drives another stake into the heart of the nuclear deal
        • Iran nuclear deal continues to unravel
        • Iraqi parliament votes to expel US troops from country
        • It all adds up
        • Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies at 76
        • Ladakh face-off | China’s Foreign Minister blames India ‘for deliberately provoking’ border clash
        • Low-yield warhead eliminates need for nuclear buildup, state says
        • MISTI pilots conversations in energy
        • MIT Africa's Ari Jacobovits helps produce Covid-19 hackathon
        • MIT deepens connections to the Middle East
        • MIT’s response to Covid-19
        • Mattis calls out clearing protesters outside White House 'abuse of executive authority'
        • Might technology tip the scales?
        • Modi denies any Indian territory was lost in China clash
        • Modi finds neighbors silent as India-China tensions simmer
        • Modi says China isn’t occupying Indian territory after clash
        • N Korea fires projectiles, after 'momentous' retaliation threat
        • National security is in the eye of the beholder
        • New North Korea ICBM report suggests Pyongyang can hit US with nukes
        • North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South
        • North Korea has unveiled new weapons, showing Trump failed to tame its nuclear program
        • North Korea seen expanding rocket launch facility it once promised to dismantle
        • North Korea signals end of nuclear-test suspension, promises 'new' weapon
        • North Korea unveils ‘very destabilizing’ ICBM
        • Oil prices surge after US attack kills senior Iran military chief
        • Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
        • Pan-India News 18 poll on India-China standoff: Here’s what it means according to experts
        • Philippines backs off threat to terminate military pact with US
        • Pictures and videos show California burning as more wildfires break out across state
        • Power, the party, and the president: Xi's revolutionary past
        • Putin's virus disinformation campaign against Americans
        • Q&A: Holly Jackson on building a cosmic family tree
        • Qassem Soleimani long targeted the United States
        • Qassem Soleimani, top Iranian general, killed in US airstrike in Baghdad
        • Report: Boston minority communities hit hardest by evictions
        • Robert Art retires as director of the Seminar XXI Program
        • Russia 'thinks they can get away with' poisoning Navalny
        • Russia, China and the US: Who has the best Middle East policy?
        • Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize
        • Satellite images indicate Russia is preparing to resume testing its nuclear-powered cruise missile
        • Saudi Arabia 'planned to spy on Khashoggi's fiancee in UK'
        • Saudi Arabia runs squalid, abusive jails for women disowned by their male guardians — a forgotten chapter in its rush to champion women’s rights
        • Secret Tibetan military force raises stakes in India-China clash
        • Shining a light on the quantum world
        • Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows
        • Spies being left exposed in the digital age
        • Study: State-level adoption of renewable energy standards saves money and lives
        • Taiwan is building eight new submarines—they alone could destroy a Chinese invasion fleet
        • Taiwan's planned submarine fleet could forestall a potential Chinese invasion for decades
        • The 2 most controversial national security items in Trump’s new budget
        • The 9/11 Commission Report, the pandemic and the future of Homeland Security
        • The Galwan Valley clash and China’s approach to sovereignty disputes
        • The Japanese intelligence community & espionage
        • The rumors of Kim Jong Un’s “grave” illness, explained
        • The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain
        • Threat from nuclear weapons and missiles has grown since Trump entered office
        • Tibet’s shadow looms over Himalayan stand-off
        • Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked
        • Transatlantic research and study partnership continues amid the pandemic
        • Trump administration’s move on visas is ‘dream-crashing’ for Indian students and families
        • Trump says the US nuclear arsenal is now 'tippy top' thanks to him, but nuke experts say he's out of touch with reality
        • Trump slams China’s pattern of aggression
        • Trump wages a war on watchdogs as coronavirus elevates their importance
        • Trump’s inaccurate statements about the conflict with Iran
        • Trump’s virus treatment revives questions about unchecked nuclear authority
        • Trump’s ‘highly unusual’ politicization of government watchdogs
        • Twenty years of cultivating tech entrepreneurs
        • Two years after Trump summit, Kim vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear deterrent
        • Two years after Trump-Kim meeting, little to show for personal diplomacy
        • US military deploys new type of nuclear weapon seen as key to countering Russia
        • US pulls out of open skies treaty
        • US sanctions Turkey over Russian air defense system, raising questions and concerns
        • US says most of China’s claims in South China Sea are illegal
        • US tells foreign students with online classes to go, universities look at options
        • Universities should lead the way on climate action, MIT panelists say
        • What Trump's visit means for India?
        • What do the IG firings say about American democracy?
        • What's the path forward on Iran?
        • When culture clashes with Covid-19
        • Where is Kim Jong Un?
        • Who is Mohammad bin Salman?
        • Who is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist killed in attack outside Tehran?
        • Why do banking crises occur?
        • Why soldiers fight
        • Why the Beirut blast created a mushroom cloud
        • Why the confusion about Kim Jong Un's health actually makes sense
        • Will the Covid-19 pandemic change national security?
        • Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?
        • Xi’s obsession to look strong amid domestic discontent likely reasons for China’s rogue behaviour, say experts
      • 2019
        • 'The clock is ticking': A year on from the Singapore summit Kim Jong Un is losing patience with Donald Trump's strategy
        • 1 big thing: No deal in Hanoi
        • 3 Questions: Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
        • 3Q: John Tirman on a new US human rights commission
        • A brief history of intelligence whistleblowing
        • A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
        • A look at US national security after Bolton's departure
        • A look at the fallout from the Jamal Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia
        • A month after G20, Trump's Asia policy achievements appear to be unraveling
        • A nuclear world with Vipin Narang
        • A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks
        • A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed.
        • A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy
        • AI meets bureaucratic politics
        • Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter
        • Africa insiders: Tiny Gambia stands up for the Rohingya
        • After Trump and Kims handshake, what comes next in US-North Korean talks
        • After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
        • All things policy: talking nukes with Vipin Narang
        • Amazing event North Korea lauds Trump-Kim meeting at border
        • An interview with Dr Scott Sagan and Dr Vipin Narang
        • Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?
        • As North Korea doubles down on its nuclear weapons, Trump and the US are stuck with ‘strategic patience’
        • At the Center for International Studies, a student endowment for women in international affairs
        • BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J Samuels
        • Best/worst cases for Trump-Kim II
        • Billions dead: That's what could happen if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war
        • Book Review: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since1949
        • Burna Boy, Timini Egbuson amongst others win big at TFAA 2019
        • Chaguan | A chained dragon
        • China says the US is undermining global stability
        • Chinese and Iranian hackers renew their attacks on US companies
        • Civilians evacuated from last ISIS-held village in Syria
        • Co-designing assistive technologies in India
        • Commerce and coercion
        • Could someone actually steal a US nuke?
        • Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
        • Delhi denies asking Trump to mediate Kashmir dispute
        • Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no.
        • Disbelief, joy and resistance as Saudi women get first passports
        • Dueling investigations? Days before inspector general's report on FBI's Russia investigation, Trump promotes AG probe
        • Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
        • Ep 124: Nuclear war, deterrence and peace
        • Even for a limited nuclear deal, North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief
        • Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
        • Failed Russian nuclear test hints at Putin's dangerous plans to beat US defenses
        • Fast, low and hard to stop: North Korea’s missile tests crank up the threat level
        • Foreign Affairs reviews “Special Duty”
        • Former NSA inspector: whistleblower does not need firsthand information
        • Former inspector general on Trump & republicans attacking the whistleblower
        • From focus to forgotten: Why no N Korea spotlight at UN?
        • GOP lawmakers invited to WH today
        • Greater Boston: Vindman testifies about Trump's Zelensky call and Volker revises his testimony
        • Group of former intelligence community watchdogs call for protecting whistleblowers
        • Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series
        • Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer
        • How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
        • How Pakistan is playing Washington—again
        • Impeachment spotlights vulnerability of acting federal watchdogs
        • Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections
        • India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon
        • India says committed to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons for now
        • India slips further behind China during first five years of Modi
        • India weighs military options against Pakistan as Kashmir tensions rise
        • India, Pakistan exchange fire
        • India–Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead?
        • India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites
        • Intelligence reforms: time for a Japanese James Bond
        • Iran denies US claims about drone attack
        • Iran says it has exceeded uranium limits set in 2015 nuclear deal
        • Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook
        • Iran will stop complying with some parts of US nuclear deal
        • Is Boston a cloud security hub
        • Is India “creatively reinterpreting” its no-first-use policy?
        • Is the US about to lower the bar for North Korea denuclearisation?
        • Is the US inching closer to war with Iran?
        • Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
        • It’s clearer than ever that the US’s North Korea policy is in total chaos
        • Japanese report to say North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads
        • Japanese spies, once renowned, have fallen on hard times
        • Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76
        • Jeanne Guillemin, who exposed Soviet anthrax lab, dies at 76
        • Joel Brenner comments on whistleblower issue
        • Joel Brenner on whistleblower & Trump
        • Joel Brenner: allegations that WH attempted to cover up Trump-Ukraine call records is "deeply troubling"
        • Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides
        • Kim Jong Un guided test-fire of new “superior tactical” weapon on Saturday: KCNA
        • Kim Jong Un inspects submarine that experts fear could carry far-reaching missiles
        • Kim Jong Un is pushing his own 'maximum pressure' campaign against Donald Trump with latest missile test, experts say
        • Kim Jong Un may have faced ‘domestic hard line pressure’
        • Kim Jong Un receives letter from Trump, saying he will seriously contemplate its interesting content
        • Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
        • Learning to study a painful past
        • M Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949
        • M. Taylor Fravel on how the People's Liberation Army does military strategy
        • MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
        • MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
        • Mapping urban transport
        • Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death
        • Military strategy and politics in the PRC
        • Missile test site explosion raises questions about US-Russia nuclear competition
        • Modi’s definitive win may mean a more assertive India
        • NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?
        • NATO summit begins amid tensions
        • NYT: Saudi Crown Prince said he'd use 'bullet' on Khashoggi
        • Narendra Modi v Imran Khan: Who won the war of perception?
        • Neocon-led US Venezuela policy, rhetoric trigger deja vu effect
        • New images of Kim Jong Un’s horseback ride at a sacred mountain suggest the country’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ will defy Trump
        • North Korea conducts second weapons test in under a week
        • North Korea conducts ‘crucial test’ as deadline nears
        • North Korea could gift the US a long-range missile for Christmas, MIT professor says
        • North Korea denies reports of behind-the-scenes talks with US in sharp rebuttal to South Korea's Moon
        • North Korea doubts US will have alternative plans inside two weeks
        • North Korea escalates missile tests
        • North Korea fires ballistic missile, possibly from submarine, days before talks
        • North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles. So why won’t Trump use the B word?
        • North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test
        • North Korea missile tests, ‘very standard’ to Trump, show signs of advancing arsenal
        • North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties
        • North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon,’ with Kim Jong Un there to observe
        • North Korea tested a missile over the weekend. The Trump admin flubbed the response.
        • North Korea threatens Japan with 'real ballistic missile'
        • North Korea warns it's up to the US to decide what 'Christmas gift' it will get
        • North Korea weapons test may have included ballistic missile
        • North Korean leader visits sacred mountain as speculation grows of fresh provocation
        • North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un's 'Christmas gift' decision
        • North Korean missile launch a 'new type of threat,' South Korea says
        • North Korea’s improved missile systems spark ‘deadline’ concerns
        • North Korea’s new weapons, and how they affect Trump’s nuclear deal hopes, explained
        • Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan face off in renewed escalation
        • One year on, shadow of Khashoggi’s killing stalks Saudi prince
        • Opening the arsenal
        • Over 1,000 MIT students, researchers to India in last two decades
        • Picture from Washington: Not so rosy on Kashmir
        • Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics
        • Pompeo visits elite event as Trump policies raise questions
        • Relaunched: The new nuclear arms race with Russia
        • Revolution in military affairs and India’s defense preparedness
        • Richard Samuels on "Special Duty"
        • Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates?
        • Russian scientist in city near nuclear explosion warns locals not to fish, says agency 'committed a crime'
        • SMA debate: Why shouldn’t South Korea pay more for its defense?
        • Saudi Arabia again under UN scrutiny as anniversary of Khashoggi killing nears
        • Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
        • Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back.
        • Seoul: North Korea tests short-range projectiles
        • Shola Lawal on human rights and social justice
        • Sources say
        • Special Duty: "Best of Books 2019" by Foreign Affairs
        • Special duty
        • Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor
        • Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program
        • Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. But Washington doesn’t seem that bothered.
        • Tests and temptations: The nuclear balance in Asia
        • The (evolving) art of war
        • The BradCast
        • The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
        • The Cybersecurity 202: SCIF fight shows lawmakers can be their own biggest cybersecurity vulnerability
        • The IT and biological technology link
        • The North Korean nuclear crisis
        • The Russian Navy: A submarine powerhouse?
        • The art of no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other
        • The difficulty of basing US missiles in Asia
        • The importance of academics engaging with policymakers
        • The intersection of technology and war
        • The media hands Trump a hollow victory on North Korea
        • The uncertain role of natural gas in the transition to clean energy
        • To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal
        • To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s
        • Trump administration downplays fears of post-treaty arms race
        • Trump agrees to second Kim summit as nuke deal remains elusive
        • Trump and Kim exchange letters, but will they meet at DMZ
        • Trump and Kim open 2nd nuclear summit
        • Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’
        • Trump appears to confirm US nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
        • Trump appears to contradict Bolton on North Korea, expresses ‘confidence’ in Kim
        • Trump blames Iran for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman
        • Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim
        • Trump offers North Korea's Kim weekend meeting in demilitarized zone
        • Trump officials privately bracing for North Korea's next move
        • Trump says Kim Jong Un risks losing 'everything' after North Korea claims major test
        • Trump says he looks forward to seeing Kim Jong Un 'in the not too distant future'
        • Trump says no to eased sanctions, but South Korea's Moon keeps nuclear talks with Kim alive
        • Trump steps over North Korean border and into controversial nuclear negotiations
        • Trump to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in two weeks for the pair's second summit
        • Trump unveils ambitious missile defense plans
        • Trump's 'great chemistry' with Kim Jong Un put to test at summit
        • Trump's artificial intelligence order lacks funding but not a target — China
        • Trump's bizarre claims about Russian invasion of Afghanistan
        • Trump, Kim fail to reach agreement in Hanoi after talks abruptly collapse
        • Trump-Kim handshake may be meaningless without bridging denuclearization differences
        • Trump-Kim talks or not, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal apparently continues to grow
        • Trumps whirlwind weekend in Asia
        • Trump’s diplomacy with Kim dims as both sides return to hard-line positions
        • US imposes first N. Korea-linked sanctions since failed summit
        • US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
        • US risks emboldening Kim with muted response to missile test
        • US still hopes for talks after latest North Korean missile tests
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Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow 2018-2019

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