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	Audit August 21, 2006 Channel surfing: non-engagement as foreign policy Barbara Bodine, MIT The adoption of Security Council Resolution 1701 brought a halt to the month-long Israeli-Hezbollah war. UNIFIL will be greatly expanded with a more vigorous mandate to back Lebanese assertion of full sovereignty and control over southern Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah’s militia and missile sites. But is an agreement hammered out in Manhattan sustainable on the ground?
	Audit August 1, 2006 Why do Islamist groups become transnational and violent? Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College Since al-Qaeda’s rise to prominence as the most commonly recognized Islamist group worldwide, Islamist movements are increasingly viewed as violent, transnational organizations. Most Islamist groups, however, are actually non-violent and focused on the domestic audience of their home countries.
	Analysis + Opinion July 12, 2006 Political polarization will strengthen Mexican democracy Chappell LawsonSan Jose Mercury News On July 2, Mexico held its most closely contested presidential race in 50 years. Based on his early lead, conservative candidate Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party (PAN) has insisted that he won the race and discounted any possibility that the final results might prove otherwise. Meanwhile, his leftist opponent, former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is demanding a recount of all 42 million ballots from the election.
	News Release July 1, 2006 Professor Barry Posen becomes Director of the MIT Security Studies Program Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, assumed the directorship of the MIT Security Studies Program (SSP) on July 1, 2006. He succeeds MIT political scientist Harvey Sapolsky, who retired after 40 years of teaching at MIT and 15 years directing SSP, which is part of CIS.
	Analysis + Opinion June 28, 2006 Japan's Jujitsu leader Richard J. SamuelsBoston Globe In five short years, Koizumi created a more muscular Japan with more security options than at any time since the 1940s.
	Audit June 1, 2006 Budgets to make America safer Cindy Williams, MIT Since September 2001, federal budgets for national security have climbed more than 50 percent in real terms. Unfortunately, much of the added money reflects “business as usual” rather than programs aimed at making the nation safer from today’s threats.
	Audit June 1, 2006 Immigration and insecurity: post-9/11 fear in the United States John Tirman, MIT The attacks of September 11, 2001, transformed the landscape of global security, none more than borders and immigration. The topography of citizenship, belonging, and suspicion instantly changed for Arab and Muslim communities in the United States. They drew the sharp attention of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence services, and that continues.
	News Release May 6, 2006 Iraqi journalist Huda Ahmed named Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at MIT's Center for International Studies CIS announced today that Huda Ahmed, an Iraqi journalist who has been covering the war in Iraq for the Knight Ridder newspapers, will become the Center's second Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. The announcement was made at the Elizabeth Neuffer Forum held on May 10, 2006.
	News Release May 1, 2006 Ambassador Francis Deng, Sudan expert, joins the MIT Center for International Studies Francis Mading Deng, Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society and Director of the Center for Displacement Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., joined CIS as the Center's second Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow.
	News Release May 1, 2006 Ambassador Bodine joins MIT's Center for International Studies Barbara Bodine, a former career diplomat who served in 2003 as coordinator for post-conflict reconstruction for Baghdad and the central governorates of Iraq, and from 1997-2001 as U.S. Ambassador to Yemen, joins MIT's Center for International Studies (CIS) as a Visiting Fellow on May 1, 2006.