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. Read More
BookThe Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline Yasheng Huang Yale University Press 2023
BookAt the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts Duke University Press 2023
PaperTabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi, Reyko Huang, Kanchan Chandra, Evgeny Finkel, Richard A Nielsen, Mara Redlich Revkin, Manuel Vogt, and Elisabeth Jean Wood. “How Religious Are ‘Religious’ Conflicts?” International Studies Review 25, no. 3 (2023). July 2023
PaperCummings, Peter M. M, Alejandra Mizala, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Chile’s Inclusion Law: The Arduous Drive to Regulate an Unequal Education System, 2006-19.” Educational Review (Birmingham) 77, no. 3 (2025): 764–89. July 2023
PaperLazer, David MJ, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger et al. "The science of fake news." Science 359, no. 6380 (2018): 1094-1096. July 2023
PaperPapa, Mihaela, 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. July 2023
PaperApaydin, Fulya, Ben Ross Schneider, Marius R Busemeyer, and Geoffrey Wood. “On Merve Sancak’s Institutions, Skills, Production Regimes and the Near Periphery, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022.” Socio-Economic Review 21, no. 3 (2023): 1835–47. July 2023
PaperImai, Kosuke, In Song Kim, and Erik H Wang. “Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data.” American Journal of Political Science 67, no. 3 (2023): 587–605. July 2023
PaperCharnysh, Volha, Eugene Finkel, and Scott Gehlbach. “Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future.” Annual Review of Political Science 26, no. 1 (2023): 175–91. June 2023
PaperHassan, Mai. “Coordinated Dis-Coordination.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 1 (2024): 163–77. May 2023