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Suzanne Freeman, Wright Smith, and Ye Zhang

News@E40

March 7, 2024

PhD students Suzanne Freeman, Wright Smith, and Ye Zhang selected to receive World Politics and Statecraft Fellowships

MIT Department of Political Science

The fellowships are awarded by the Smith Richardson Foundation to support PhD dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies and diplomatic and military history.

Sanne Verschuren

In the News

March 6, 2024

Verschuren shares research at MIT’s Security Studies Program

Boston University Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies

Last month, Sanne Verschuren, Assistant Professor of International Security at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, presented her latest research, “Imagining the Unimaginable: War, Weapons, and Procurement Politics,” at the MIT Security Studies Program Wednesday Seminar.

Kathryn Lopatiuk, Dmytro Chumachenko, and Liudmuyla Huliaieva

News@E40

March 4, 2024

CIS welcomes Ukrainian scholars to MIT

Center for International Studies

The Center is thrilled to welcome three of four Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) on campus. The newly launched GMAF program is designed to provide sanctuary to scholars around the globe whose lives and academic freedom are under threat. The pilot program is offered through the MIT-Ukraine Program and is focused on Ukrainian researchers and faculty. Our spring 2024 Ukrainian scholars include: Liudmyla Huliaieva, an economist, whose research and activism focuses on the economic adaptation and survival of Ukrainian women migrants in time of war; Dmytro Chumachenko, a multidisciplinary scientist working and the intersection of computer science and public health; and Kateryna Lopatiuk, an urban researcher, who aims to foster an ecosystem conducive to transitioning Ukraine to a circular economy in a range of fields, especially in the context of the post-war reconstruction. Read their full bios and learn more about GMAF here.

Kim Tran, Ahmed Dadou, April Julich Perez, and Justin Leahey

News Release

March 2, 2024

New pledge expands MIT-Netherlands Program

Center for International Studies

The Center for International Studies is delighted to announce a new pledge agreement between MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) and the Netherland’s Ministry of Economics and Climate Policy. The agreement was signed on March 1 at a ceremony held at the MIT Museum. 

Death, Dominance, and State-Building,” a new book by MIT Professor Roger Petersen,

In the News

March 1, 2024

A careful rethinking of the Iraq War

Peter DizikesMIT News

The Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Roger Petersen's new book details military operations and political dynamics in Iraq, shedding new light on the challenges of state-building.

Belmont Apartments

In the News

March 1, 2024

Developers got backing for affordable housing. Then the neighborhood found out.

Jason DeParleThe New York Times

Quoted: “A lot has changed in American life over the past 50 years, but the hostility to affordable housing has remained surprisingly durable,” said Justin Steil, associate professor of law and urban planning and steering member of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration

In the News

March 1, 2024

Climate change and military power: Hunting for submarines in the warming ocean

Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, Antonio Ricchi, Aniello Russo, Sandro CarnielTexas National Security Review

Quoted: "In his prominent work Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy, Barry Posen summarizes a widespread view among traditional security studies scholars, noting that there 'might be an argument that such problems [like climate change] strongly affect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, power position, and safety of the United States…[but] this needs to be demonstrated, not assumed.'"

MIT musicians and tour staff with the São Sebastião community

In the News

February 28, 2024

Learning and listening in Amazonia

Talia KhanMIT Technology Review

Talia Khan, a former MISTI MIT-Brazil student, documented their experience returning to the Amazon rainforest with 80 fellow MIT musicians.

Sudhakar Kesavan

In the News

February 28, 2024

'Tech Titan' aims to serve

Julie FoxMIT Technology Review

Sudhakar Kesavan spent nearly 40 years at consulting firm ICF, serving as CEO from 1999 to 2019, and recently created the MIT-IIT Kanpur Seed Fund to foster more collaboration between India and MIT.

Discussion on the impacts of Japan’s National Security Strategy

In the News

February 27, 2024

Japan’s national security strategy: The role of alliance and partnerships

Stimson

Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki, visiting scholar at the MIT Security Studies Program, will discuss on the impacts of Japan’s National Security Strategy on Tokyo’s security cooperation with Washington and other like-minded partners.

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