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- PHRJ Fellow Miriam Zoll, co-founder of "Take Our Daughters to Work Day," on protection of orphans and women's economic rights
- Persian Gulf Initiative to commence with April 6-7 conference
- Professor Barry Posen becomes Director of the MIT Security Studies Program
- Promoting peace, the Just Jerusalem competition
- Samuels named finalist for Lionel Gelber Prize
- Saudi scholar and activist Hala Aldosari joins CIS as the Robert E Wilhelm Fellow
- Six-nation study finds promises on women’s security unmet
- Symposium on forced labor in the global economy
- Technology and national security expert, David Edelman, joins MIT
- Ugandan journalist joins CIS
- Urban transportation resource center for Latin American and Caribbean cities
- In the News
- 2019
- 'The clock is ticking': A year on from the Singapore summit Kim Jong Un is losing patience with Donald Trump's strategy
- 1 big thing: No deal in Hanoi
- A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks
- A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed.
- A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy
- After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
- Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?
- As North Korea doubles down on its nuclear weapons, Trump and the US are stuck with ‘strategic patience’
- Best/worst cases for Trump-Kim II
- Billions dead: That's what could happen if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war
- Chinese and Iranian hackers renew their attacks on US companies
- Civilians evacuated from last ISIS-held village in Syria
- Co-designing assistive technologies in India
- Commerce and coercion
- Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
- Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no.
- Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
- How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
- Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections
- India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon
- India slips further behind China during first five years of Modi
- India weighs military options against Pakistan as Kashmir tensions rise
- India, Pakistan exchange fire
- India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites
- Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook
- Iran will stop complying with some parts of US nuclear deal
- Is the US about to lower the bar for North Korea denuclearisation?
- Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
- It’s clearer than ever that the US’s North Korea policy is in total chaos
- Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides
- Learning to study a painful past
- M. Taylor Fravel on how the People's Liberation Army does military strategy
- MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
- MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
- Mapping urban transport
- Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death
- Modi’s definitive win may mean a more assertive India
- NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?
- NYT: Saudi Crown Prince said he'd use 'bullet' on Khashoggi
- Narendra Modi v Imran Khan: Who won the war of perception?
- Neocon-led US Venezuela policy, rhetoric trigger deja vu effect
- North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles. So why won’t Trump use the B word?
- North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test
- North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties
- North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon,’ with Kim Jong Un there to observe
- North Korea tested a missile over the weekend. The Trump admin flubbed the response.
- North Korea weapons test may have included ballistic missile
- Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan face off in renewed escalation
- Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics
- Pompeo visits elite event as Trump policies raise questions
- Revolution in military affairs and India’s defense preparedness
- Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates?
- Seoul: North Korea tests short-range projectiles
- Sources say
- Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. But Washington doesn’t seem that bothered.
- The (evolving) art of war
- The BradCast
- The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
- The North Korean nuclear crisis
- The art of no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other
- To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal
- To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s
- Trump administration downplays fears of post-treaty arms race
- Trump agrees to second Kim summit as nuke deal remains elusive
- Trump and Kim open 2nd nuclear summit
- Trump appears to contradict Bolton on North Korea, expresses ‘confidence’ in Kim
- Trump blames Iran for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman
- Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim
- Trump officials privately bracing for North Korea's next move
- Trump says no to eased sanctions, but South Korea's Moon keeps nuclear talks with Kim alive
- Trump to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in two weeks for the pair's second summit
- Trump unveils ambitious missile defense plans
- Trump's 'great chemistry' with Kim Jong Un put to test at summit
- Trump's artificial intelligence order lacks funding but not a target — China
- Trump's bizarre claims about Russian invasion of Afghanistan
- Trump, Kim fail to reach agreement in Hanoi after talks abruptly collapse
- Trump-Kim talks or not, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal apparently continues to grow
- Trump’s diplomacy with Kim dims as both sides return to hard-line positions
- US imposes first N. Korea-linked sanctions since failed summit
- US risks emboldening Kim with muted response to missile test
- Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
- Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure?
- We need to not freak out about the robot revolution
- We should assume Iran is responsible for attacks on oil tankers, says Jim Walsh
- What 2018 looked like fifty years ago
- What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel
- Who left the island? Who got the rose? The Trump-Kim summit played out like a reality show.
- Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet
- “Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor Fravel
- “Active Defense” by Taylor Fravel
- 2018
- 3Q: Hazel Sive on MIT-Africa
- A US attempt to keep AI out of China’s hands could actually help China
- An assault on American intelligence
- An unpredictable Trump and a risk-prone Kim mean high stakes and mismatched expectations
- As Pompeo heads for Pyongyang, North Korea appears to raise its demands
- As Trump talks trade and nukes, China quietly tightens its grip on the South China Sea
- CIS experts discuss immigration in the US
- CIS experts in national security and the Koreas discuss the Singapore summit
- China and the new frontier of biosecurity threats
- Crisis in US nuclear talks with Pyongyang not China’s doing, experts say
- Denuclearization: can Trump and Kim find a common definition?
- Despite good faith on Singapore meeting, discord remains between US, Japan
- Endorsement meetings at the Globe ahead of the 2018 midterms
- Experts are underwhelmed by North Korea's promise to dismantle missile site
- Experts dismiss North Korea's latest concession to US
- Few checks can keep Trump’s hands off his ‘nuclear button’
- First UN Mil-Mil talks with North Korea in 11 years; what they mean
- For US cybersecurity, it’s Code Red
- Gender gap without gender bias?
- Google+ to close after report of user data exposure
- Great-grandson of lynching victim faces the past: "This is American history"
- Has Pakistan bought Chinese SH-15 Howitzer for its 'miniaturized' nuclear shells?
- Hawaii and the horror of human error
- Heated rhetoric from North Korea
- How China is using North Korea in its long game against America
- India tests-fires Agni-V, a nuclear-capable ICBM
- Insulting veterans and allies
- Is China using force or coercion in the South China Sea?
- Is North Korea secretly continuing its nuclear programme?
- Is democracy dying?
- JCPOA opportunity for EU to get rid of US dominance
- Jim Walsh on Iran and North Korea
- Khashoggi’s friends, other foreigners, are being watched. The US can do little about it
- Kim Jong Un ends visit to China with a message for the US
- Kim to visit Seoul, shut missile site
- Korean summit: can Moon and Kim deliver Trump a nuclear win, or is it all talk?
- Narang sees a future with nuclear North
- North Korea declares US diplomacy “gangster-like”
- North Korea is dismantling missile facilities, but nuclear expert warns against getting 'drunk on optimism'
- North Korea stops short of suggesting any intention of giving up nuclear arsenal
- North Korea turns 70: all eyes on missile displays at upcoming military parade
- North Korea warns it will not give up nuclear weapons until US removes 'threat'
- North Korea weaponizes its deal with Trump to tangle talks
- North Korea's Kim sets denuclearization time line, prompting thanks from Trump
- North Korea: secret missile site revealed in new satellite images
- North Korea’s definition of ‘denuclearization’ is very different from Trump’s
- North Korea’s sudden interest in talks
- North, South Korean leaders meeting
- Novelist Min Jin Lee makes the case for understanding through fiction
- Pentagon wants to deploy 'low-yield' nuclear weapons to deter Russia from similar ones
- Pompeo hails 'significant' North Korea progress; experts skeptical
- Populism: a case-by-case study
- Posen's "Illiberal Hegemony" among Best of 2018
- Rebuilding Germany’s centuries-old vocational program
- Richard Nielsen on Deadly Clerics
- Russia isn't complying with an arms control treaty--so the US is threatening to rip it up
- Russia says Israeli missile strikes near Damascus threatened two civilian flights
- Russian hackers targeted critical US infrastructure—What happens now?
- Safety nightmares of US nuclear weapons
- Satellite images indicate North Korea has started dismantling rocket launch site
- Satellite images reveal hidden North Korean missile bases
- Satellite images show North Korea upgrading nuclear facility
- Sessions pushes back on Trump after insult
- Singapore summit preview
- Some colleges are cracking down on student-teacher romances
- Some experts question defense value of submarines
- South Korean family prepares for what might be a last reunion
- South Korean officials and Kim Jong Un; Pompeo in Pakistan
- South Korean president says North isn’t insisting on American troop withdrawal
- Students spearhead “women working in security” conference
- Summit may be the grand theater Kim needs to show his people
- The NATO summit and state of the alliance
- The White House just revealed massive mission creep in Syria. Here's why.
- The future of transatlantic relations: A debate
- The psycho-politics of wellbeing
- Trump faces North Korea dilemma after Bolton infuriates Pyongyang
- Trump faces criticism for comments after Putin meeting
- Trump is blaming China for North Korea impasse, but real fault may lie closer to home
- Trump moving ahead with second Kim summit despite working-level frustrations
- Trump strikes softer North Korea tone at UN, after 'Rocket Man' speech a year ago
- Trump's sharp criticism of NATO's newest member has a point, but his comments are playing right into Russia's hands
- Two guys walk into a summit in Singapore
- US and ROK’s diplomatic push for talks with the DPRK
- US anticipates North Korea will return remains of 55 service members, official says
- US frustration rises as North Korea turns down timeline to ditch its nuclear weapons
- US has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton
- US military renames largest area of operations
- US officials meet with North Koreans despite uncertainty surrounding Trump-Kim summit
- US weapons systems are easy cyberattack targets, new report finds
- US-North Korea summit like Trump’s “reality tv-show finale”
- US-North Korea talks have been a disaster since Trump met with Kim Jong Un
- Vipin Narang in the news
- Walsh on the Iran nuclear deal
- What a Trump-Kim deal may look like, from good to bad to worse
- What economists don’t know about manufacturing
- What is the point of a forever war in Iraq?
- What it's like to negotiate with North Korea
- What to expect from President Trump’s first meeting with Kim Jong Un
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- Where Trump's summit with Putin fits as a historical moment
- Who has Kim Jong Un's 'nuclear button' in Pyongyang while he's away?
- Why certain types of elections favor extreme candidates
- With friends like these: Japan-ROK cooperation and US policy
- 2017
- As trash avalanche toll rises in Ethiopia, survivors ask why
- Brenner on Russian hacking effort
- CIA scrambles to contain damage from WikiLeaks documents
- CIS mourns death of Calestous Juma
- Crisis in Syria
- FBI prepares for new hunt for WikiLeaks’ source
- For families of Japanese abducted by North Korea, Trump visit brings spotlight
- Former NSA inspector general on “US-Russian cybersecurity unit”
- Guillemin on the sarin attack in Syria
- Halting intelligence
- How political science contributes to national policies on immigration and military conflict
- In speech to South Korean assembly, Trump tells the North 'Do not try us'
- India may abandon its 'no first use' nuclear policy
- India, long at odds with Pakistan, may be rethinking nuclear first strikes
- Justin Steil on the Trump administration travel ban
- Libertarian billionaire Charles Koch is making a big bet on foreign policy
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- North Korea's recent, and possibly most powerful missile test
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- Rex Tillerson, in Japan, says US needs ‘different approach’ to North Korea
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- Tell me how Trump’s North Korea gambit ends
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- The case for restraint
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