End Notes

Suzanne Berger, Institute Professor, was appointed faculty co-director of the Initiative for New Manufacturing. The initiative will encompass advanced research, innovative education programs, and partnership with companies across many sectors, in a bid to help transform manufacturing and elevate its impact.

Mariana Budjeryn, Center for Nuclear Security Policy Research Associate, spoke on the "Trump-Zelenskyy meeting: Is peace getting any closer for Ukrainians?" for France 24 on August 19, 2025. She analyzed the results of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska for France 24 on August 16, 2025. 

Nicholas Blanchette, Eleanor Freund, and Eyal Hanfling, PhD Candidates, received the 2024-2025 Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships from the U.S. Institute of Peace for demonstrating the greatest potential to advance the peacebuilding field and the strongest likelihood to inform policy and practice.

Zachary Burdette, Jung Jae Kwon, and Kunal Singh received their PhDs from the Department of Political Science and as students at SSP.

Volha Charnysh, Global Diversity Lab (GDL) Associated Faculty, received the 2025 Merze Tate-Elinor Ostrom Award from the American Political Science Association for her recent book “Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe.” She organized and hosted a CIS workshop on “The Origins of State Strength and Economic Development: Insights from Historical Political Economy.” The workshop brought together leading scholars in historical political economy to explore the deep roots of state formation, economic development, and culture. Charnysh and Richard Nielsen, MIT-MENA Faculty Director, were selected as the inaugural SHASS Faculty Fellows. The fellowship allows selected faculty to focus on their research, build community, and pursue mentorship opportunities. 

Alicia Chen, CIS Neuffer Fellow, co-directed and produced the documentary "Walk the Line," which recently received the Asian American Journalists Association’s Excellence in Video Storytelling, Long-Form & Programs award.

Rosabelli Coehlo, Latin America Lead and the MIT-Brazil and MIT-Amazonia Managing Director received an Official Resolution from the Boston City Councilor At-Large for her contribution and commitment to developing collaboration between the U.S. and Brazil, and promoting sustainable development and climate resilience.

Cathy Culot, MIT-Belgium Faculty Co-Director, is among the six recipients of the James A. (’48) and Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2025.

Areg Danagoulian, MIT-Eurasia Faculty Co-Director, received the 2024 Forum on Physics and Society Fellowship for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms control and cargo security, which significantly benefit international security.

Taylor Fravel, Security Studies Program (SSP) Faculty Director was interviewed and quoted on "Xi Jinping's crackdown on military corruption and its possible impacts on China's military strategy," for the New York Times on August 10, 2025.

Suzanne Freeman, PhD Candidate, spoke at the workshop "The Future European Security Order" on June 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. The event was organized by Bridging the Gap and the Transatlantic Policy Center at American University. She also accepted a Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellowship at American University's School of International Service for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years.

John Githongo, the 2024-2025 Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, spoke at the Starr Forum event “The U.S. Presidential Election: The World is Watching,” on October 2, 2024, discussing how the possible impact the presidential election will have on Africa. He also spoke at the inaugural Global Research & Policy Seminar “The Next 50 Years of Global Anti-Corruption” on November 14, 2024, where he examined the future of anti-corruption movements in a growing multipolar world.

Kelly Greenhill, Seminar XXI Director, was interviewed on November 7, 2024, by VoxEurope, on the weaponization of migration, a tactic used by autocratic governments to influence neighboring countries.

Mariya Grinberg, SSP Faculty, was promoted to associate professor effective July 1, 2025. She was honored as “Committed to Caring” for supporting graduate students throughout their academic journey at MIT on September 3, 2024.

Eyal Hanfling, PhD Candidate, received a “Next Generation Grant” from Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation.

Mai Hassan, MIT-Africa Faculty Director and GDL Associated Faculty, moderated a Starr Forum event on the civil war in Sudan in April. She also helped establish with Ari Jacobovits, MIT-Africa Managing Director, the new Angola initiative, which aims to spark novel approaches to global sustainability challenges and strengthen academic ties on both sides.

F. Daniel Hidalgo, MIT-Brazil Associated Faculty, was featured in MIT News about his course 17.831 (Data and Politics), which explores the power of analysis, visualization, and research-supported insight into political outcomes.

Yasheng Huang, MIT-China Faculty Director, was named a non-resident honorary senior fellow on Chinese economy and technology at the Asia Society Policy Institute. He was also featured in a Global MIT spotlight on June 5, 2024, encouraging students to break the boundaries of disciplines. He was featured in a ThinkChina interview on April 4, 2025, offering insights on global instability, the result of the US elections and China’s political system. He was also featured in ChinaTalk on September 23, 2024, and in an interview on “The Second China Shock”  at the Harvard Kennedy School on September 19, 2024. 

Ari Jacobovits, Africa Lead and MIT-Africa Managing Director, received an MIT Excellence Award in Innovative Solutions. His nominator praised his dedication to shaping the MIT-Africa Program into “the nexus on campus for research and entrepreneurship.” Under his leadership, the MIT-Africa Program expanded to include funding academic research, providing seed funds for business ventures, and sponsoring units on campus to bring African scholars and researchers to MIT. He was instrumental in launching the new Angola Initiative, which aims to spark novel approaches to global sustainability challenges and strengthen academic ties on both sides.

Erik Lin-Greenberg, SSP Wargaming Lab Co-Director and SSP faculty, recently took command of the 820th Intelligence Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. He was also featured in the Spectrum article "Of Arms and Algorithms," where he discussed the modern military.

Julia Lodoen and Mrinalini Penumaka, PhD Students, are the recipients of the 2025 Jeanne Guillemin Prize at CIS. The Guillemin Prize is an endowed fund that provides financial support to women PhD candidates studying international affairs. Julia Lodoen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science, and Mrinalini Penumaka is a PhD student in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning.  They were also among the twenty doctoral students in international affairs at MIT who were awarded CIS PhD Student Research Grants. 

Philip Khoury, Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar Founding Director and the Faculty Founder of MIT-Arab World (now MIT-MENA), stepped down from his nineteen year post as MIT’s vice provost of the arts. The Center’s Bustani seminar, which he launched with support from the Bustani family, and chaired for four decades, hosted its final lecture last April. He celebrated 30 impactful years of MIT’s Washington, DC, internship program, which he also helped launch. He will resume his role as Ford International Professor of History upon his return from sabbatical.  

Evan Lieberman, CIS Director, MISTI Faculty Director, and Global Diversity Lab (GDL) Founding Director, co-organized and spoke at a CIS Workshop: “Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges,” on April 11, 2025. The Climate Adaptation Workshop culminated in a report that outlines a forward-looking research agenda to drive impactful scholarship and policy engagement. He was featured in an MIT News Q&A “Examining American attitudes on global climate policies,” where he discussed a recent study that he, Volha Charnysh, and colleagues published in Climactic Change in December 2024. He moderated several CIS events, including two Starr Forums: “The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days,” on April 16, 2025; and “The 2024 US Presidential Elections: The World is Watching” on October 2, 2024. He also moderated a book talk, “From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World,” featuring Michael Sheldrick, co-founder, Global Citizen, on October 16, 2024.

Noah Nathan, Global Diversity Lab (GDL) Associated Faculty and Ariel White, GDL Associated Faculty hosted a third cohort of summer interns through the Pathways to Political Science Summer Research Internship. The program aims to broaden the pipeline into US political science PhD programs. 

Vipin Narang, Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP) Director, was joined by Austin Long, CNSP Senior Fellow, and Pranay Vadday, CNSP Senior Fellow, on a podcast exploring the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska for Strategic Simplicity on August 14, 2025.

Richard Nielsen, MIT-MENA Faculty Director, was selected along with Volha Charnysh as inaugural SHASS Faculty Fellows. The fellowship allows selected faculty to focus on their research, build community, and pursue mentorship opportunities. He also moderated a Starr Forum: Syria and the Middle East: What’s Next? on February 25, 2025.

Mihaela Papa, CIS Director of Research, Principal Research Scientist, and BRICS Lab Director, co-organized and spoke at a CIS Workshop: “Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges,” on April 11, 2025. The Climate Adaptation Workshop culminated in a report that outlines a forward-looking research agenda to drive impactful scholarship and policy engagement. With Bradley Olsen, MIT-Brazil Faculty Director, she received a MITHIC Connectivity grant to build an MIT Amazonia research community that links MIT scholars with regional partners and strengthens collaboration across the Amazon. She delivered the thematic address at the launch of the Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability on June 17, 2025.  She launched the Global Research & Policy Seminar series, hosting ten seminars throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. She founded and leads the BRICS Lab, a research initiative that examines the role of the BRICS group in international affairs and sustainable development. She launched an interactive BRICS map and analyzed how it reflects a new global alignment in the World Politics Review on June 25, 2025. She offered expert analysis on BRICS and the 2025 BRICS Summit across various media outlets. She moderated the Global Research & Policy Seminar “US-China Science Cooperation and Chinese American Scientists in the Trump 2.0 Era” on February 11, 2025. She discussed the significance of BRICS and its role in reshaping global governance in an episode of the ChinaPower podcast, hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), on January 31, 2025. She was a panelist at a CIS book talk, “From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World,” on October 16, 2024. 

Barry Posen, SSP Faculty, was a panelist for Cato Institute's "NATO at 75: Rebalancing the Transatlantic Alliance" on July 9, 2025. He spoke on the "Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War," at a Cato Institute event on March 18, 2025. On January 29, 2025, he was quoted extensively by CBC on President Donald Trump's possible strategies regarding Canada and Greenland. On January 21, 2025, he appeared on 92NY's "The Dialogue Project: America and the World," where he discussed whether America’s NATO allies are taking advantage of the United States. He was a featured expert in Defense Priorities "Realistic Recommendations for Trump 11," on January 13, 2025. He was a panelist for The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy's "Today Ukraine, Tomorrow the World: NATO as the Lynchpin of the American Empire" on November 8, 2024.  He was a featured expert in Newsweek's "Has Trump's Win Cost Ukraine the War? What Geopolitics Experts Think," on November 6, 2024. 

Christine Pilcavage, MIT-Japan Managing Director, received the "Foreign Minister’s Commendation of Japan" from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan on August 28, 2025.

Carol Saivetz, SSP Senior Fellow, organized and served as the co-chair of the Focus on Eurasia events “What’s Next for Ukraine and Europe? A Conversation with Dmytro Kuleba, former foreign minister of Ukraine” on April 8, 2025, and “Lessons from Battlefield Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukraine’s former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov” on October 17, 2024. 

Ben Ross Schneider, MIT-Chile and MIT-Peru Faculty Director gave the following talks: “Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America,” at the World Bank in June 2025 and at he OECD in September 2024. He also spoke on “The Peculiar Politics of Antitrust in Latin America: From Institution Building to Business Backlash,” at the OECD in June 2025 and the World Bank in September 2024.

Kunal Singh, PhD '25, was featured in an MIT News article  “Stopping the bomb” on November 14, 2024. He joined Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a Stanton postdoctoral fellow.

Wright Smith, PhD Candidate, is starting a predoctoral fellowship in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Jim Walsh, SSP Senior Research Associate, spoke on "Putin, Trump to meet in Alaska reportedly without Zelenskyy" for Fox News on August 9, 2025.  He offered expert analysis on the Israel-Iran crisis in a series of interviews in June 2025 across multiple media outlets. He also weighed in on the sudden rebel victory in Syria, and its implications for the Middle East and outside powers on December 9, 2024, for WBUR Here & Now. He discussed Israel’s airstrikes on Iran on October 28, 2024 on WBUR Here and Now and on October 2, 2024, for CBC was interviewed on whether the US could stop Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites. 

Raymond Wang, PhD Candidate, will join Columbia-Harvard China and the World as a postdoctoral fellow (2025-2026). He accepted the role of assistant professor of international relations, starting in the fall of 2026, at the Pardee School, Boston University.

Elizabeth Wood, MIT-Ukraine Faculty Director and MIT-Eurasia Co-Faculty Director, discussed President Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska for CTV News on August 13, 2025. She organized and served as the co-chair of the Focus on Eurasia events “What’s next for Ukraine and Europe? A conversation with Dmytro Kuleba, former foreign minister of Ukraine” on April 8th, 2025; and “Lessons from battlefield Ukraine: With Ukraine’s former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov” on October 17th, 2024. She and Svitlana Krasynska, MIT-Ukraine Managing Director, organized the “Vulnerabilities and Resilience of Electrical Grids in Wartime” event featuring Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, former CEO of the Ukrainian Transmission System Operator Ukrenergo on March 11, 2025. MIT-Ukraine hosted a hackathon in collaboration with Mission Innovation X where students created innovative projects addressing challenges facing Ukraine. MIT-Ukraine is also developing tools using robotics, AI, and sensor technology to support demining efforts on Ukrainian farms, as featured in The Boston Globe on June 26, 2025.

Ekaterina (Katya) Zabrovski, Europe Lead and MIT-Eurasia Managing Director, received an Infinite Mile Award from the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). She was recognized for her leadership in “deep cross-cultural awareness and political sensibility.” Areg Danagoulian, MIT-Eurasia Faculty Co-Director, described her as an “invaluable asset to MIT’s global mission.” Among her many accomplishments, she was instrumental most recently in securing a new funding agreement that greatly expands student and faculty opportunities in Lithuania.

Phil Budden, MIT-UK Faculty Director
(with Fiona Murray, MIT-UK Faculty Director) Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem Engagement. MIT Press, 2025.

Alicia Chen, CIS Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow
"Some Chinese Weigh Painful Question: Stay or Flee Under Trump?" New York Times, August 3, 2025.
"U.S.-Based Orange Juice Importer Sues Over Trump’s 50% Tariff on Brazilian Goods," New York Times, July 21, 2025.
"China’s Moves Against 3 Foreigners Stoke Anxiety," New York Times, July 20, 2025.
“How China hounds pro-democracy activists,” Boston Globe, July 19, 2025.
"Trump again floats the idea of letting farmers hire undocumented workers." New York Times, July 4, 2025.
"Senate Bill Offers Interest Deduction for Buyers of American-Made Cars," New York Times, July 2, 2025.
"Minnesota State Senator Says Accused Gunman Visited Her Street," New York Times, June 16, 2025.
"Over 1,200 protesters have been arrested nationwide this week." New York Times, June 13, 2025. 
"Where People Are Protesting Against Immigration Raids," New York Times, June 11, 2025.
“China is already silencing dissent in Taiwan,” Boston Globe, April 29, 2025.
“From show trials to war,”  Boston Globe, March 24, 2025.

Vohla Charnysh, Global Diversity Lab Associated Faculty
Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Rosabelli Coelho, Latin America Lead, and the MIT-Brazil and MIT-Amazonia Managing Director
(with Bradley Olsen, MIT-Brazil Faculty Director, et al) "Teaching Materials Science: Multi-Tiered Learning at a Soccer-Themed Science Camp in Brazil.” Journal of Chemical Education, March 2025.

Fiona Cunningham, SSP Research Affiliate
"China’s Test of the Nuclear Revolution," Journal of Strategic Studies, January 15, 2025.
Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security,  Princeton University Press, January 7, 2025.

Ryan A. Fitzgerald, SSP Military Fellow
"Taiwan’s Nuclear What-If: Implications for U.S. Strategy and Global Security," Global Security Review, February 2025.

M. Taylor Fravel, SSP Director
"Is China’s military ready for war?" Foreign Affairs, July 18, 2025.
"Technological Competition and the US-China Rivalry," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Chapter 7, in Bård Nikolas Vik Steen, ed., Not Just Another Cold War: The Global Implications of the US-China Rivalry, Oxford University Press, 2025.
"From Engagement to Balancing in US-China Relations," RSiS, May 2, 2025.
(with Eric Heginbotham, Co-Director, SSP Wargaming Lab and Principal Research Scientist) "Envisioning a Stable Military Balance," in U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 17, 2024.
(with Heginbotham and George J. Gilboy, SSP Research Affiliate) "China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction," War on the Rocks, September 2, 2024.

Charles Glaser, SSP Senior Fellow
"The End of MAD? Technological Innovation and the Future of Nuclear Retaliatory Capabilities," Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025, VOL. 48, NO. 2, 239–251.

Kelly Greenhill, Seminar XXI Director
(with Fiona Adamson) “The Geopolitics of Externalization: Diplomacy, Deal-Making and Transactional Forced Migration,” (TFM), September 23, 2024.

Mai Hassan, MIT-Africa Faculty Director  and Global Diversity Lab Associated Faculty
(with Horacio Larreguy and Stuart Russell) “Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 4 (2024): 1913–30.

Eric Heginbotham, SSP Wargaming Lab Co-Director and Principal Research Scientist 
(with Matthew Cancian and Mark Cancian) "Lights out? Wargaming a Chinese blockade of Taiwan," Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 31, 2025.
(with Matthew Cancian and Mark Cancian) "Wargaming Nuclear Deterrence," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 13, 2024.

Yasheng Huang, MIT-China Faculty Director
(with Enying Zheng, , Wei Hong, and Rongzhu Ke) "Networks Rewired: Quota Enforcement and the Unintended Mobilization of Native Place Ties," Social Forces Vol. 103, No. 4 (2025): 1465-1488.
(with Qihua Gao, El Ghali Zerhouni, and Y. Karen Zheng) "How to Improve Citizen Engagement on Public Service Platforms? The Impact of Government Responsiveness." MIT Sloan Working Paper 7044-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2024.

In-Song Kim, MIT-Korea Faculty Director 
(with Jan Stuckatz and Lukas Wolters) "Systemic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying." The Journal of Politics, 2025.
(with Megumi Naoi, and Tomoya Sasaki)  “Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization.” The American Political Science Review, 2025, 1–17.
(with Steven Liao and Sayumi Miyano) "How FDI Reshapes Host Market’s Trade Profile and Politics." The American Journal of Political Science, 2025.

Svitlana Krasynska, MIT-Ukraine Program Manager
Self-Organization: The Power and Limits of Ukraine's Informal Civil Society. Harvard University Press, 2025.

Evan Lieberman, CIS Director, Global Diversity Lab (GDL) Director, and MISTI Faculty Director 
"What the U.S. Open Tells Us About America," New York Times, August 23, 2025. 
(with Paige Bollen, Will Kymlicka, Evan Lieberman, and Blair Read) "The Value of Dignity Appeals: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment," Political Science Research and Methods, 1–6, 2025.
(with Mihaela Papa, CIS Director of Research, CIS Principal Research Scientist, CIS BRICS Lab Director) “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).
(with Michael Ross) "Government Responses to Climate Change," World Politics 77, no. 1 (2025): 179-190.
(with Volha Charnysh, Jared Kalow, GDL PhD Student, and Erin Walk. “How Information about Historic Carbon Emissions Affects Support for Climate Aid: Evidence from a Survey Experiment,” Climatic Change 177, no. 12 (2024).

Erik Lin-Greenberg, SSP Wargaming Lab Co-Director
"Ukraine’s smart munitions deliver a punch—and a warning about the future of warfare," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 13, 2025.
"Wars Are Not Accidents: Managing Risk in the Face of Escalation," Foreign Affairs, October 8, 2024.

Nina Miller, PhD Candidate
(with Edward Geist, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Dahlia Anne Goldfeld, et al) "Imagining Escalation Pathways to Chinese Nuclear First Use Via Analytic Strategic Theory, Historical Case Studies, and an Original Analytic Framework," Denial Without Disaster—Keeping a U.S.-China Conflict over Taiwan Under the Nuclear Threshold: Rand, Vol. 4, 2024.
(with Shawn Cochran, William Kim, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, et al) "Surveying U.S. Conventional Joint Long-Range Strike Capabilities," Denial Without Disaster—Keeping a U.S.-China Conflict over Taiwan Under the Nuclear Threshold: Rand, Vol. 2, 2024.
(with Dahlia Anne Goldfeld, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Shawn Cochran, et al) "An Overview of Ideas for U.S. Conventional Joint Long-Range Strike in Support of Escalation Management," Denial Without Disaster—Keeping a U.S.-China Conflict over Taiwan Under the Nuclear Threshold: Rand, Vol. 1, 2024.

Vipin Narang, SSP Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP) Director 
(with Pranay Vaddi, CNSP Senior Nuclear Fellow) "In denial? Debating US nuclear strategy," Foreign Affairs, August 19, 2025.
(with Pranay Vaddi) "How to Survive the New Nuclear Age: National Security in a World of Proliferating Risks and Eroding Constraints," Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2025.
(with Pranay Vaddi) "Building a Euro Deterrent: Easier Said Than Done, Setting a baseline for Europe's new nuclear conversation," Strategic Simplicity, March 14, 2025.  
(with Pranay Vaddi and Ankit Panda) "Nuclear Proliferation Will Haunt ‘America First’," War on the Rocks, March 10, 2025. 

Richard Nielsen, MIT-MENA Faculty Director 
(with Gabriel Koehler-Derrick an David Romney) "The Supply of Conspiracism in State-Controlled Media," Political Science Research and Methods, February 13, 2025.

Mihaela Papa, CIS Director of Research, Principal Research Scientist, BRICS Lab Director
(with Walter Streeter) "BRICS’ New Map Is Taking Shape," World Politics Review, Jun 25, 2025.
"BRICS in Transition: From the Kazan Summit to Brazil’s 2025 Presidency," Ensured, December 11, 2024.
(with Evan S. Lieberman) “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).
(with Zhen Han) “The Evolution of Soft Balancing in Informal Institutions: The Case of BRICS,” International Affairs (London) 101, no. 1 (2025): 73–95.
(with Zhen Han)  “Leadership and Performance in Informal Institutions: The Internal Dynamics of BRICS,” Contemporary Politics 30, no. 1 (2024): 87–107.
(with Zhen Han, and Frank O’Donnell) “The Dynamics of Informal Institutions and Counter-Hegemony: Introducing a BRICS Convergence Index,” European Journal of International Relations 29, no. 4 (2023): 960–89.

Barry Posen, SSP Faculty
"Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine," International Security,  (2025) 49 (3): 7–49.

Carol Saivetz, SSP Senior Fellow
"The Stakes of the Russia-North Korea Alliance," The National Interest, November 18, 2024. 
"Ukraine’s Bold Kursk Offensive: A Turning Point or Bargaining Chip?" National Interest, September 19, 2024. 

Lauren Sukin, SSP Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow
(with Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka, Ondrej Rosendorf) "Are the United States and Europe still allies? The European public doesn’t think so." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 26, 2025. 

Kathleen Thelen, MIT-Scandinavia, MIT-Germany, and MIT-Switzerland Faculty Director 
Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy. Princeton University Press, 2025.
(with Brian Highsmith and Maya Sen) "Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes," Cambridge University Press,  February 6, 2025. 

Caitlin Talmadge, SSP Faculty
“How would Trump and Biden handle US nuclear policy upon reelection?” Brookings Institution Election Explainer, July 8, 2024.
"The global implications of the US strikes on Iran," Brookings Institution. July 1, 2025.
"Israel strikes Iran. What happens next?" Brookings Institution. June 16, 2025.