April 1, 2005
Audits are short essays, written by our scholars, that put to test the conventional wisdoms of US foreign policy.
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- All weapons of mass destruction are not equal
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- Fewer missions, not more troops
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- Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline: is it a peace pipeline?
- Iran-US: the case for transformation
- Iran: rogue state?
- Iran’s nuclear program: a race between sanctions and centrifuges?
- Iraq's three civil wars
- Iraq’s political factions: the last chance to build a governing coalition?
- Is Iran's reform movement dead?
- Is Port Security funding making us safer?
- Is the foreign policy process working?
- Israel-Palestine: great expectations or misplaced euphoria?
- Japan-China relations: four fallacies masquerading as common sense
- Much ado about nothing: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
- Multilateral imposition: an immodest proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- North Korea: negotiations work
- Obama's strategy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia
- Pakistan’s governance imperative
- Paying for homeland security: show me the money
- Raising the salience of Mexico and Canada
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- Regionalizing the Iraq conflict?
- Remittances: Latin America's faulty lifeline
- Russia and America: is another arms race afoot?
- Russia: an energy superpower?
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- Sudan at the crossroads
- The Iraq War: do civilian casualties matter?
- The US and Iran after the NIE
- The US and Iran in Afghanistan: policy gone awry
- The US-India nuclear deal: triumph of the business lobby
- The United States as an Asian power: realism or conceit?
- The War on Terror and the Cold War: they're not the same
- The global financial crisis and obstacles to US eadership
- The hidden cost of homeland defense
- The mirage of a united Europe
- The war on terror: forgotten lessons from World War II
- Troop levels in stability operations: what we don’t know
- Turkey: misperceptions and the healing touch of democracy
- Turkey’s crisis and future
- US and Colombia: a growing military intervention?
- US military power: strong enough to deter all challenges?
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- Waiting for Goldilocks: getting Japan’s foreign policy just right
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- Just Jerusalem competition winners announced
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- MIT Security Studies research scientist wins MacArthur Grant
- MIT global website seeks visions for Jerusalem
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- MIT website puts human face on Iraq War
- MIT's 'Audits of the Conventional Wisdom' gain a broader audience via AlterNet
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- MIT-Italy brings "Roberto Rocca Project" to MIT
- Melgar named Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow
- New book details key changes in the staffing of western militaries
- Outspoken Iranian human rights activist joins MIT Center for International Studies as a visiting scholar
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- Professor Barry Posen becomes Director of the MIT Security Studies Program
- Promoting peace, the Just Jerusalem competition
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- As trash avalanche toll rises in Ethiopia, survivors ask why
- Brenner on Russian hacking effort
- CIA scrambles to contain damage from WikiLeaks documents
- Crisis in Syria
- FBI prepares for new hunt for WikiLeaks’ source
- Guess who we don’t talk about these days? Iran
- Guillemin on the sarin attack in Syria
- Halting intelligence
- How political science contributes to national policies on immigration and military conflict
- India may abandon its 'no first use' nuclear policy
- India, long at odds with Pakistan, may be rethinking nuclear first strikes
- MIT report to combat cyber threats
- MIT's experts in Asian security
- Making sense of Trump’s travel ban
- Mexico’s energy reform
- Patching the electric grid
- Rex Tillerson, in Japan, says US needs ‘different approach’ to North Korea
- Smartening up Japan's defenses
- Strike on Syria is defensible but problematic
- Syria Showdown: will Trump be pressured into putting Turkey first, America second?
- Trump's intel bashing
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- Vipin Narang: On the brinkmanship beat
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- Confusion is risky
- From Turkey to Nice, looking at safety and stability around the globe
- Here are 4 reasons that South Africa’s ANC lost ground in this month’s elections
- How political science helps combat terrorism
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- Immigration and terrorism
- It's all in our heads
- Japan’s pivot from Obama to Trump
- Mass atrocity Monday, 6/6/2016: Tiananmen Square
- NATO has problems, but Trump won’t fix them
- Obama's visit To Hiroshima is 'about memory, more than it's about apology'
- On the Putinization of politics
- Reports of saving the Pentagon billions are just fake news
- The End of the Commonwealth
- The US defense budget: Too big, too small or just right?
- The Wall and the Ban: Can Trump really accomplish either
- Why Zimbabwe's military sticks with Mugabe
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- 3 Qs: Jim Walsh on the elusive US-Iran nuclear treaty
- 3 Qs: Kenneth Oye on genetic engineering
- A farewell to arms
- From conflict, cooperation
- From warheads to cheap energy
- Genetically engineering almost anything
- Is Japan back?
- John Tirman on the warming US-Iran relationship
- Knowing the enemy
- Put it in writing
- Russian weapons removal & the cold war backpack bomb
- The new industrial espionage
- Ukraine: part of America's 'vital interests'?
- What falling oil prices and new US sanctions mean for Russia
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- 'Talk to my eyes, not to my chest'
- Amateur hour
- China and Japan in the East China Sea
- Empowering women in Afghanistan
- For a new approach to Iran
- How should we use our intelligence?
- Japan's shifting strategic discourse
- Letting opportunity slip away
- Lifting of sanctions will take a few years
- Syria’s red line
- What really drives civil wars?
- When the world changed
- Why China and India probably won't clash over border dispute
- Older
- 'Collective autism' about the costs of war
- A 'Once-in-a-Century' Financial Crisis-Mortgaging the Future: How We Got in This Mess & Why It Could Happen Again
- A conversation with Admiral Fallon
- A eulogy for Pakistan
- A solution for the US-Iran nuclear standoff
- A special report on China's place in the world
- A weakened Ahmadinejad
- Admiral Fallon scans the horizon
- An alliance in need of attention
- An idealist on death row
- Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US, and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
- Book Review Roundtable: Kenneth B. Pyle's Japan Rising and Richard J. Samuels' Securing Japan
- Chappell Lawson on border security
- China's dilemma
- China's response to a rising India
- Cold water from the Taliban
- David Singer on the Greek Euro-tragedy
- Debt crisis highlights I.M.F.'s renewed role
- Egypt: the path forward
- Eugene Skolnikoff: the pioneer of science diplomacy
- Fallon: US needs strategy on China
- Foreign policy and the next US administration
- Fotini on the war in Afghanistan
- GOP whining on military spending cuts
- Get ready to starve
- Grieving over Gaza
- How civil wars evolve
- How cutting Pentagon spending will fix US defense strategy
- How dictators fall
- IMF turmoil unlikely to derail Euro debt talks
- India and America in the strategic times to come
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