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Sean Gilbert

Lead, Asia-Pacific

Managing Director, MIT-China Program, MIT-Singapore Program, MIT-Australia & New Zealand Program

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Yasheng Huang

Faculty Director, MIT-China Program

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management Professor, Global Economics and Management

Faculty and Researchers

Mihaela Papa

Director of Research

Principal Research Scientist

Faculty and Researchers

M. Taylor Fravel

Director, Security Studies Program

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science

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Eric Heginbotham

Co-Director, SSP Wargaming Lab

Principal Research Scientist

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Fiona Cunningham

Affiliate, SSP

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliates and Visitors

Kacie Miura

Affiliate, SSP

Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Relations, University of San Diego

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MISTI China

MISTI matches MIT students with tailored internship, research, teaching and study opportunities in China.

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Global Seed Funds

The MIT Greater China Fund for Innovation grant program enables new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts in the region.

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Two working groups focus on China, including the China Group on Climate Change and Sustainability and the Chinese Politics Research Workshop.

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Student spotlights

CIS makes it possible for MIT students to experience the world while advancing knowledge, tackling tough challenges, and preparing for lives of impact, service, and leadership in an interconnected global society.

Roger's story

Ph.D Candidate, Materials Science & Engineering '19

Rodger interned for a semester in the Lubrication Department at Shell (Shanghai) Technology Ltd. and taught for a summer in three different regions of China with the MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI).

Annabeth's story

Civil & Environmental Engineering '15

Annabeth worked with her MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI) team introducing course content from MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xining, and Yulin, Shaanxi.

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Papa, Mihaela, and Evan S. Lieberman. “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).

April 2025

Book

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Cambridge University Press

2023

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Book

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

2023

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

Paper

Hassan, Mai, Daniel Mattingly, and Elizabeth R Nugent. “Political Control.” Annual Review of Political Science 25, no. 1 (2022): 155–74.

May 2022

Paper

Adamson, Fiona B, and Kelly M Greenhill. "Global security entanglement and the mobility paradox." Vol. 121. Oakland: University of California Press, Journals & Digital Publishing Division, 2022.

January 2022

Paper

Bertelli, Anthony M, Mai Hassan, Dan Honig, Daniel Rogger, and Martin J Williams. “An Agenda for the Study of Public Administration in Developing Countries.” Governance (Oxford) 33, no. 4 (2020): 735–48.

August 2020

Book

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949

Princeton University Press

2019

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949

Book

International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma

MIT Press

2019

International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma

Book

China Steps Out

Routledge

2019

Book

Japan's Pivot in Asia

Oxford University Press

2018

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Yasheng Huang

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Eric Heginbotham

Fiona Cunningham

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Publications

Papa, Mihaela, and Evan S. Lieberman. “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

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

Hassan, Mai, Daniel Mattingly, and Elizabeth R Nugent. “Political Control.” Annual Review of Political Science 25, no. 1 (2022): 155–74.

Adamson, Fiona B, and Kelly M Greenhill. "Global security entanglement and the mobility paradox." Vol. 121. Oakland: University of California Press, Journals & Digital Publishing Division, 2022.

Bertelli, Anthony M, Mai Hassan, Dan Honig, Daniel Rogger, and Martin J Williams. “An Agenda for the Study of Public Administration in Developing Countries.” Governance (Oxford) 33, no. 4 (2020): 735–48.

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949

International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma

China Steps Out

Japan's Pivot in Asia