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The BRICS bloc is growing — and Trump’s tariff threat isn’t expected to put off aspiring members

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December 04, 2024

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3 Questions: Community policing in the Global South

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The magnetic pull of BRICS

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Ari Jacobovits

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Managing Director, MIT-Africa Program

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Mai Hassan

Faculty Director, MIT-Africa Program

Associate Professor of Political Science

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Evan Lieberman

Director, Center for International Studies

Faculty Director, MISTI

Director, Global Diversity Lab

Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa

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Akintunde Akinwande

Faculty Director, Empowering the Teachers

Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Mihaela Papa

Director of Research

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Brenna Ketchum

Program Assistant, MISTI

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Nickie's story

Mechanical Engineering '24

Nickie Mpofu '24 interned with Semiconductor Technologies Limited (STL), a Kenyan startup focused on semiconductor manufacturing in the summer of 2024.

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Computer Science and Engineering '27

Vin's internship at Startgate, a startup incubator in Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco, focused on enhancing internal operations and promoting data-driven decision-making.

Amulya's story

MEng '24

MEng graduate Amulya Aluru interned at Jean Piaget University of Cabo Verde in the fall of 2024, where she worked on a project centered around understanding what factors impact vector borne disease, from climate change to nutrition.

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Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

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The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Cambridge University Press

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Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Princeton University Press

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Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad

Cambridge University Press

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Sudan is unraveling

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Houck and Ansari, PhD students, further their dissertation research abroad

Lessons from Donald Trump’s South African doppelgänger, Paul Kruger

BRICS in focus: A conversation with Dr. Mihaela Papa

The BRICS bloc is growing — and Trump’s tariff threat isn’t expected to put off aspiring members

Making classical music and math more accessible

Trump’s warning to BRICS on US dollar adds to SE Asia’s worries

3 Questions: Community policing in the Global South

The magnetic pull of BRICS

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Ari Jacobovits

Mai Hassan

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Akintunde Akinwande

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Brenna Ketchum

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Publications

Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad