Publications & Reports

Stay connected with CIS research happening on campus and around the world.

The Alchemist statue at MIT

New issue of précis—the year in review

The MIT Center for International Studies magazine, features essays by our scholars, covers the wide range of Center activities, and tracks the accomplishments of our research community.

Country

Region

Topic

Gao, Qihua, Yasheng Huang, El Ghali Zerhouni, and Yanchong Zheng. "How to Improve Citizen Engagement on Public Service Platforms? The Impact of Government Responsiveness." (2024).

Nathan, Noah L. “Do Grids Demobilize? How Street Networks, Social Networks, and Political Networks Intersect.” American Journal of Political Science, 2024.

Foster, Chase, and Kathleen Thelen. “Coordination Rights, Competition Law and Varieties of Capitalism.” Comparative Political Studies 58, no. 6 (2025): 1199–1237.

Lockwood, Sarah, and Evan Lieberman. “Politician Responses to Material Incentives for Participation in Surveys: Experimental Evidence from South Africa.” Research & Politics 11, no. 2 (2024).

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption

Oxford University Press

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Oxford University Press

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Ibsen, Christian Lyhne, and Kathleen Thelen. “Arrangers and Orchestrators: The Diverging Role of the State in Danish and German Vocational Education and Training.” Socio-Economic Review, 2024.

Komisarchik, Mayya, and Ariel White. “Throwing Away the Umbrella: Minority Voting after the Supreme Court’s Shelby Decision.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 20, no. 2 (2024): 269–305.

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Gender Systems in the Putin Autocracy.” Frontiers in Sociology 9 (2024): 1327946–1327946.

Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Oxford University Press

Death, Dominance, and State-Building