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A recent study in Climatic Change led by MIT professors Evan Lieberman and Volha Charnysh, co-authored with MIT PhD student Jared Kalow and UPenn postdoc Erin Walk PhD ‘24, explores US public opinion on global climate policies considering our nation’s historic role as a leading contributor of carbon emissions.

Elizabeth Parker-Magyar PhD '24 is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a member of the Center's Global Diversity Lab. She will join Yale University’s Department of Political Science as an assistant professor in July 2025. In this article, she analyzes the potential paths for Syria's reconstruction after the fall of the regime led by Bashar al-Assad.

Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses the sudden rebel victory in Syria, and its implications for the Middle East and outside powers.

A new experiment co-led by MIT professor and CIS research affiliate Fotini Christia found that community policing had no impact in several countries across the Global South, from Africa to South America and Asia.

The Center's director of research and principal research scientist Mihaela Papa was quoted: “Developing a joint currency … on a large scale is a lengthy process, making it unlikely the dollar will face a significant challenge soon."