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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.

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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Yale University Press

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

Duke University Press

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

Tabaar, 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).

Cummings, 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.

Lazer, 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.

Papa, 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.

Apaydin, 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.

Imai, 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.

Charnysh, Volha, Eugene Finkel, and Scott Gehlbach. “Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future.” Annual Review of Political Science 26, no. 1 (2023): 175–91.

Hassan, Mai. “Coordinated Dis-Coordination.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 1 (2024): 163–77.