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      • 2020
        • Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly
      • 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
      • 2018
        • A #MeToo movement in China
        • A new military strategy for Japan
        • An adolescent's foreign policy
        • An agenda for Japanese military reform
        • As Europe revisits wartorn times, Trump lays a minefield
        • Authoritarian nostalgia among Iraqi youth
        • Between two Caesars: The Christians of northern Iraq
        • Calm down, folks: Enemies still fear US military tech innovation
        • Diplomacy without denuclearization: North Korea in 2018
        • Does America need a space force?
        • Déjà vu? 'Global Britain' versus the continental commitment
        • Election insights: on reducing gun violence
        • How is Japan dealing with a volatile United States?
        • Japan’s pivot in Asia
        • Keep the Iran deal — 10 good reasons why
        • More and more, overseas Chinese fear the long arm of Beijing
        • North Korea is a nuclear power. Get used to it.
        • North Korea's nuclear program isn't going anywhere
        • President Reif, cut MIT’s ties to Saudi Arabia now!
        • Renaming Macedonia in the age of nationalism
        • South Africa's healthy Democracy: Why Zuma's resignation is a good sign
        • Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
        • The GSDF is taking to the waves, but should it?
        • The Trump administration’s new ‘Iran Action Group’ won’t work — for these 3 reasons
        • The Trump-Kim Summit and the truth about North Korean denuclearization
        • The future of the US military commissions: legal and policy issues
        • The origins of America's gun obsession
        • The price paid by journalists who break the cycle of repression
        • The rise of illiberal hegemony
        • There are signs North Korea is still working on its nuclear program. Here’s why ‘denuclearization’ is so problematic.
        • This 9/11, end the Afghanistan War
        • Time for General Mattis to move on
        • Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He’s wrong on both.
        • Want NATO allies to boost defense spending? Don’t build Fort Trump
        • What can we learn from North Korea’s successful nuclearization?
        • What just happened? Experts break it down
        • Who to blame for the protests in Basra, Iraq?
        • Why North Korea and Iran get accused of nuclear collusion
        • Why ethnic nationalism still rules Bosnia, and why it could get worse
        • Would US leaders push the button? Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
        • ‘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’
        • Command and control in North Korea: What a nuclear launch might look like
        • Danger at Dolam
        • Deadly Overconfidence: Trump thinks missile defenses work against North Korea, and that should scare you
        • Guess who we don’t talk about these days? Iran
        • Is it time for our dealmaker in chief to talk with North Korea?
        • Is war coming to North Korea?
        • It's time to make Afghanistan someone else's problem
        • Making sense of Trump’s travel ban
        • North Korea ICBM: A new missile and a new era
        • North Korea won't be solved without South Korea
        • North Korea, Trump, and strategic stability
        • Nuclear stability, conventional instability: North Korea and the lessons from Pakistan
        • Protecting America from cyber attacks
        • Revisit NIH biosafety guidelines
        • Should you be worried about North Korea?
        • Smartening up Japan's defenses
        • Some of the top political science journals are biased against women. Here’s the evidence.
        • Syria Showdown: will Trump be pressured into putting Turkey first, America second?
        • The US will keep losing wars until it decides what it stands for
        • 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
        • Turkish referendum rallies in Europe made headlines. Did they affect election results?
        • US-Japan Relationship: Past, Present, and Future
        • Welcome to the H-Bomb Club, North Korea
        • What Next For Kurdistan?
        • What political science tells us about the risk of civil war in Spain
        • Why India did not ‘win’ the standoff with China
        • Why Kim Jong Un wouldn’t be irrational to use a nuclear bomb first
        • Why Zimbabwe's military abandoned Mugabe
        • Will Tokyo’s arms exports help or hurt US interests in Asia?
        • Women will soon be issuing fatwas in Saudi Arabia. This isn't as groundbreaking as you'd think.
      • 2016
        • Confusion is risky
        • Here are 4 reasons that South Africa’s ANC lost ground in this month’s elections
        • How to get China to use its leverage against North Korea
        • How to think about Russia
        • Impose an arms embargo in South Sudan
        • North Korea ramps up nuclear readiness
        • Reports of saving the Pentagon billions are just fake news
        • Sanders’ surge is part of a growing global movement
        • Saudi allies sever ties with Iran
        • South Asian nuclear tensions: Back to core issues
        • The End of the Commonwealth
        • The Wall and the Ban: Can Trump really accomplish either
        • The lines that have been crossed
        • The strategic implications of the South China Sea tribunal’s award
        • Why Zimbabwe's military sticks with Mugabe
      • 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?
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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
      • Firms and the state in Chinese overseas investment
      • Global financial crisis
      • Hidden atrocities: The Tokyo trial
      • 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
      • Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
      • Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I, one century after its bitter end
      • 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
      • 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: John Tirman
      • 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: Paul Heer
      • précis Interview: Philip Khoury
      • précis Interview: R David Edelman
      • précis Interview: Regina Bateson
      • précis Interview: Richard Nielsen
      • précis Interview: Vipin Narang
  • Events + Seminars
    • Starr Forum
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        • 2020
          • Starr Forum: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
          • Starr Forum: Where Powers Live
        • 2019
          • MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
            • MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
          • Starr Forum: Abolish ICE?
            • Starr Forum: Abolish ICE?
          • Starr Forum: America’s Immigration Dilemma
          • Starr Forum: Digital Feminism: Case-studies from the Arab Gulf States
          • Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace
            • Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace
          • Starr Forum: Iran Reframed
          • Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery
            • Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery
          • Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
            • Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
          • Starr Forum: The Global Rise of Populism
          • Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad
          • Starr Forum: The Madhouse Effect
            • Starr Forum: The Madhouse Effect
        • 2018
          • 70 Years: Israel-Palestine – Reflections & Forecasts
            • 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: Citizenship under attack
            • Starr Forum: Citizenship Under Attack
          • Starr Forum: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
          • Starr Forum: Is Democracy Dying?
            • Starr Forum: Is Democracy Dying?
          • Starr Forum: Pachinko
            • Starr Forum: Pachinko
          • Starr Forum: The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
            • Starr Forum: The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
          • Starr Forum: The Rise of Populism
            • Starr Forum: The Rise of Populism
          • 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: US-Russian Relations: What's Next?
          • Starr Forum: Women's Empowerment: Are Global Development Organizations Helping or Hurting?
            • 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: 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
        • 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
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      • 2020
        • A look at the national security challenges facing the US in 2020
        • After Iran strikes back, President Trump indicates a de-escalation
        • Did the killing of Qassim Suleimani deter Iranian attacks, or encourage them?
        • George W Bush slips in and out of town as Poodle naps
        • How an Iranian cyberattack might start
        • How exiled Saudi Arabian activists are quietly building a resistance movement
        • 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
        • Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies at 76
        • North Korea signals end of nuclear-test suspension, promises 'new' weapon
        • Oil prices surge after US attack kills senior Iran military chief
        • Qassem Soleimani long targeted the United States
        • Qassem Soleimani, top Iranian general, killed in US airstrike in Baghdad
        • Saudi Arabia runs squalid, abusive jails for women disowned by their male guardians — a forgotten chapter in its rush to champion women’s rights
        • Spies being left exposed in the digital age
        • Study: State-level adoption of renewable energy standards saves money and lives
        • Trump’s inaccurate statements about the conflict with Iran
        • What's the path forward on Iran?
        • Who is Mohammad bin Salman?
      • 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
        • Understanding populism
        • Victim ideology part 1
        • Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
        • Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure?
        • Washington and Seoul postpone military drills in bid to boost stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang
        • Watch | ‘No First Use’ in India’s Nuclear Doctrine
        • We need to not freak out about the robot revolution
        • We should assume Iran is responsible for attacks on oil tankers, says Jim Walsh
        • Weakened and unstable Trump gives Korea the jitters
        • What 2018 looked like fifty years ago
        • What is next after Iran strike called off?
        • What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel
        • What would a US grand strategy of restraint look like?
        • Who left the island? Who got the rose? The Trump-Kim summit played out like a reality show.
        • Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet
        • Why whistleblower standoff represents a ‘unique juncture’ for US government
        • With new North Korea-US talks likely, will a deal result?
        • World powers react to Iran exceeding limits in nuclear deal
        • “Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor Fravel
        • “Active Defense” by Taylor Fravel
      • 2018
        • 3Q: Hazel Sive on MIT-Africa
        • A US attempt to keep AI out of China’s hands could actually help China
        • An assault on American intelligence
        • An unpredictable Trump and a risk-prone Kim mean high stakes and mismatched expectations
        • As Pompeo heads for Pyongyang, North Korea appears to raise its demands
        • As Trump talks trade and nukes, China quietly tightens its grip on the South China Sea
        • CIS experts discuss immigration in the US
        • CIS experts in national security and the Koreas discuss the Singapore summit
        • China and the new frontier of biosecurity threats
        • Crisis in US nuclear talks with Pyongyang not China’s doing, experts say
        • Denuclearization: can Trump and Kim find a common definition?
        • Despite good faith on Singapore meeting, discord remains between US, Japan
        • Endorsement meetings at the Globe ahead of the 2018 midterms
        • Experts are underwhelmed by North Korea's promise to dismantle missile site
        • Experts dismiss North Korea's latest concession to US
        • Few checks can keep Trump’s hands off his ‘nuclear button’
        • First UN Mil-Mil talks with North Korea in 11 years; what they mean
        • For US cybersecurity, it’s Code Red
        • Gender gap without gender bias?
        • Google+ to close after report of user data exposure
        • Great-grandson of lynching victim faces the past: "This is American history"
        • Has Pakistan bought Chinese SH-15 Howitzer for its 'miniaturized' nuclear shells?
        • Hawaii and the horror of human error
        • Heated rhetoric from North Korea
        • How China is using North Korea in its long game against America
        • India tests-fires Agni-V, a nuclear-capable ICBM
        • Insulting veterans and allies
        • Is China using force or coercion in the South China Sea?
        • Is North Korea secretly continuing its nuclear programme?
        • Is democracy dying?
        • JCPOA opportunity for EU to get rid of US dominance
        • Jim Walsh on Iran and North Korea
        • Khashoggi’s friends, other foreigners, are being watched. The US can do little about it
        • Kim Jong Un ends visit to China with a message for the US
        • Kim to visit Seoul, shut missile site
        • Korean summit: can Moon and Kim deliver Trump a nuclear win, or is it all talk?
        • Narang sees a future with nuclear North
        • North Korea declares US diplomacy “gangster-like”
        • North Korea is dismantling missile facilities, but nuclear expert warns against getting 'drunk on optimism'
        • North Korea stops short of suggesting any intention of giving up nuclear arsenal
        • North Korea turns 70: all eyes on missile displays at upcoming military parade
        • North Korea warns it will not give up nuclear weapons until US removes 'threat'
        • North Korea weaponizes its deal with Trump to tangle talks
        • North Korea's Kim sets denuclearization time line, prompting thanks from Trump
        • North Korea: secret missile site revealed in new satellite images
        • North Korea’s definition of ‘denuclearization’ is very different from Trump’s
        • North Korea’s sudden interest in talks
        • North, South Korean leaders meeting
        • Novelist Min Jin Lee makes the case for understanding through fiction
        • Pentagon wants to deploy 'low-yield' nuclear weapons to deter Russia from similar ones
        • Pompeo hails 'significant' North Korea progress; experts skeptical
        • Populism: a case-by-case study
        • Posen's "Illiberal Hegemony" among Best of 2018
        • Rebuilding Germany’s centuries-old vocational program
        • Richard Nielsen on Deadly Clerics
        • Russia isn't complying with an arms control treaty--so the US is threatening to rip it up
        • Russia says Israeli missile strikes near Damascus threatened two civilian flights
        • Russian hackers targeted critical US infrastructure—What happens now?
        • Safety nightmares of US nuclear weapons
        • Satellite images indicate North Korea has started dismantling rocket launch site
        • Satellite images reveal hidden North Korean missile bases
        • Satellite images show North Korea upgrading nuclear facility
        • Sessions pushes back on Trump after insult
        • Singapore summit preview
        • Some colleges are cracking down on student-teacher romances
        • Some experts question defense value of submarines
        • South Korean family prepares for what might be a last reunion
        • South Korean officials and Kim Jong Un; Pompeo in Pakistan
        • South Korean president says North isn’t insisting on American troop withdrawal
        • Students spearhead “women working in security” conference
        • Summit may be the grand theater Kim needs to show his people
        • The NATO summit and state of the alliance
        • The White House just revealed massive mission creep in Syria. Here's why.
        • The future of transatlantic relations: A debate
        • The psycho-politics of wellbeing
        • Trump faces North Korea dilemma after Bolton infuriates Pyongyang
        • Trump faces criticism for comments after Putin meeting
        • Trump is blaming China for North Korea impasse, but real fault may lie closer to home
        • Trump moving ahead with second Kim summit despite working-level frustrations
        • Trump strikes softer North Korea tone at UN, after 'Rocket Man' speech a year ago
        • Trump's sharp criticism of NATO's newest member has a point, but his comments are playing right into Russia's hands
        • Two guys walk into a summit in Singapore
        • US and ROK’s diplomatic push for talks with the DPRK
        • US anticipates North Korea will return remains of 55 service members, official says
        • US frustration rises as North Korea turns down timeline to ditch its nuclear weapons
        • US has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton
        • US military renames largest area of operations
        • US officials meet with North Koreans despite uncertainty surrounding Trump-Kim summit
        • US weapons systems are easy cyberattack targets, new report finds
        • US-North Korea summit like Trump’s “reality tv-show finale”
        • US-North Korea talks have been a disaster since Trump met with Kim Jong Un
        • Vipin Narang in the news
        • Walsh on the Iran nuclear deal
        • What a Trump-Kim deal may look like, from good to bad to worse
        • What economists don’t know about manufacturing
        • What is the point of a forever war in Iraq?
        • What it's like to negotiate with North Korea
        • What to expect from President Trump’s first meeting with Kim Jong Un
        • What was the strategy behind the President's Iran tweet?
        • Where Trump's summit with Putin fits as a historical moment
        • Who has Kim Jong Un's 'nuclear button' in Pyongyang while he's away?
        • Why certain types of elections favor extreme candidates
        • With friends like these: Japan-ROK cooperation and US policy
      • 2017
        • As trash avalanche toll rises in Ethiopia, survivors ask why
        • Brenner on Russian hacking effort
        • CIA scrambles to contain damage from WikiLeaks documents
        • CIS mourns death of Calestous Juma
        • Crisis in Syria
        • FBI prepares for new hunt for WikiLeaks’ source
        • For families of Japanese abducted by North Korea, Trump visit brings spotlight
        • Former NSA inspector general on “US-Russian cybersecurity unit”
        • Guillemin on the sarin attack in Syria
        • Halting intelligence
        • How political science contributes to national policies on immigration and military conflict
        • In speech to South Korean assembly, Trump tells the North 'Do not try us'
        • India may abandon its 'no first use' nuclear policy
        • India, long at odds with Pakistan, may be rethinking nuclear first strikes
        • Justin Steil on the Trump administration travel ban
        • Libertarian billionaire Charles Koch is making a big bet on foreign policy
        • MIT report to combat cyber threats
        • MIT's experts in Asian security
        • Making sense of nuclear threats
        • Mark Zuckerberg’s China dilemma: To kowtow or not?
        • Mexico’s energy reform
        • New initiative supported by $3.7 million in grants
        • North Korea's recent, and possibly most powerful missile test
        • Nuclear and present danger
        • Patching the electric grid
        • Political science debuts on MITx
        • Rex Tillerson, in Japan, says US needs ‘different approach’ to North Korea
        • Strike on Syria is defensible but problematic
        • Tell me how Trump’s North Korea gambit ends
        • Tensions on Korean peninsula
        • Tillerson says US won't set preconditions for North Korea talks
        • Trump is a wake-up call for the free world
        • Trump promises new sanctions after North Korea's latest missile test
        • Trump will decertify the Iran nuclear deal. What does that mean?
        • Trump's cyber tweets cause dismay, confusion
        • Trump's intel bashing
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