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SSP Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Lauren Sukin and SSP Russian Foreign & National Security Policy Fellow Polina Beliakova

In the News

November 18, 2024

Elections in the US and Europe and the Transatlantic security relationship

Boston University

What do the 2024 electoral shake-ups mean for the transatlantic security relationship? SSP Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Lauren Sukin and SSP Russian Foreign & National Security Policy Fellow Polina Beliakova were among the panel exploring the question.

2025 Rhodes Scholars

In the News

November 16, 2024

MISTI GTL students named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

MIT News

Yiming Chen, Wilhem Hector, and Anushka Nair are among the four selected as the 2025 Rhodes Scholars at MIT. All three are involved with MISTI Global Teaching Labs with placements in Italy, Spain, and Scotland.

Takuma Dan.

In the News

November 14, 2024

Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT

MIT News

A new exhibit, "From Samurai into Engineers," explores MIT's first Japanese students and their history. The exhibit was developed in collaboration with Christine Pilcavage, managing director of the MIT-Japan program.

 

President of Brazil

In the News

November 12, 2024

BRICS in transition: From the Kazan Summit to Brazil’s 2025 presidency

Mihaela PapaEnsured Europe

Mihaela Papa, director of research and a principal research scientist at CIS, discusses how BRICS could evolve as Brazil takes on the BRICS presidency in 2025. 

Illustration of a family walking on a rope.

In the News

November 7, 2024

Kelly Greenhill on the weaponization of migration

Adrian BurtinVox Europe

Kelly Greenhill, faculty director of the Center’s Seminar XXI program, speaks on the weaponization of migration, a tactic used by autocratic governments to influence neighbouring countries. 

 

Image of a vehicle dynamics test bench

In the News

November 7, 2024

MIT Global Seed Fund enables German-American project for new modeling methods

University of Stuttgart

In a collaborative project, researchers from the Institute of Automotive Engineering in Stuttgart and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aim to enhance vehicle models. This German-American partnership has been made possible through the MIT Global Seed Fund.

Barry Posen

In the News

November 6, 2024

Has Trump's win cost Ukraine the war? What geopolitics experts think

Newsweek

With Trump's election, the notion of reversing Russian gains seems utterly implausible. Ukraine may be able to continue to defend most of its remaining territory, with the help of its other allies, but it will get only modest help from the US, says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and a member of the Center’s Security Studies Program. Read more.

News@E40

November 5, 2024

MENA/MIT and MIT-Arab World call for applications for science journalism workshop

Illustration of ICSR Data Hub

In the News

November 4, 2024

Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond

Scott Murray

Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at CIS, directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR). 

Jim Walsh.

In the News

November 1, 2024

Israel's latest escalation in Middle East stokes fears of larger regional conflict

WBUR

Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses Israel's recent airstrikes towards Iran and its implications for the region.

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