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Are the United States and Europe still allies? The European public doesn’t think so

March 26, 2025

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From show trials to war: A brief history of Ukrainian scientists in portraits

March 24, 2025

Commentary

Strategic empathy & the roots of the Ukraine War

March 18, 2025

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Posen featured on "Today Ukraine, Tomorrow the World: NATO as the Lynchpin of the American Empire" Panel

November 08, 2024

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Has Trump's win cost Ukraine the war? What geopolitics experts think

November 06, 2024

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Ukraine’s bold Kursk offensive: A turning point or bargaining chip?

October 18, 2024

The GMAF-Ukraine Call for Applications is now open

The Global MIT At-Risk-Fellows Program is designed to enhance the educational and research experiences of university faculty and researchers by introducing them to MIT campus methods and strategies in their areas of specialty.

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Staff

Svitlana Krasynska

Program Manager, MIT-Ukraine Program

Faculty and Researchers

Elizabeth Wood

Faculty Director, MIT-Eurasia Program

MIT-Ukraine Program

Ford International Professor of History

Affiliates and Visitors

Nataliia Fihurka

Research Affiliate, MIT-Ukraine Program

Fellows

Polina Beliakova

Russian Foreign & National Security Policy Fellow, SSP

Paul (1969) and Melonie Brophy Fellow

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MISTI Ukraine

MISTI Ukraine matches MIT students with tailored internship, research, teaching and study opportunities connected with Ukraine.

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The MIT Global Seed Funds grant program enables new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts around the world.

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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.

Milin's story

Computer Science and Engineering '27

Milin Tunsiricharoengul shares insights from her MISTI Ukraine 2024 summer internship with MacPaw in Poland.

Almog's story

Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making '25

Almog Hillel traveled to Warsaw, Poland, in the summer 2024, where had the opportunity to work with the UA-Teens and Ukraine Leadership and Technology Academy (ULTA), teaching and mentoring 20 rigorously-selected Ukrainian high school students.

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Publications

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Book

Self-Organization: The Power and Limits of Ukraine's Informal Civil Society

Harvard University Press

2025

Self-Organization: The Power and Limits of Ukraine's Informal Civil Society

Paper

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Gender Systems in the Putin Autocracy.” Frontiers in Sociology 9 (2024): 1327946–1327946.

April 2024

Book

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

Stanford University Press

2023

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

Paper

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Crimea in My Heart: Visualizing Putin’s Resurgent Empire in 2014.” In Picturing Russian Empire, edited by Valerie A. Kivelson, Sergei A. Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger. Oxford University Press, 2023.

April 2023

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

Tumarkin, Nina, Ronald Grigor Suny, Elizabeth Wood, Stephen E Hanson, and Andrea Graziosi. “The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia.” Journal of Cold War Studies 24, no. 2 (2022): 132–58.

March 2022

Book

Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Wilson Center

2015

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Are the United States and Europe still allies? The European public doesn’t think so

From show trials to war: A brief history of Ukrainian scientists in portraits

Strategic empathy & the roots of the Ukraine War

Posen featured on "Today Ukraine, Tomorrow the World: NATO as the Lynchpin of the American Empire" Panel

Has Trump's win cost Ukraine the war? What geopolitics experts think

Ukraine’s bold Kursk offensive: A turning point or bargaining chip?

Our Experts

Svitlana Krasynska

Elizabeth Wood

Nataliia Fihurka

Polina Beliakova

Events

Opportunities

Student Spotlights

Milin's story

Almog's story

Publications

Self-Organization: The Power and Limits of Ukraine's Informal Civil Society

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Gender Systems in the Putin Autocracy.” Frontiers in Sociology 9 (2024): 1327946–1327946.

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

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Crimea in My Heart: Visualizing Putin’s Resurgent Empire in 2014.” In Picturing Russian Empire, edited by Valerie A. Kivelson, Sergei A. Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger. Oxford University Press, 2023.

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

Tumarkin, Nina, Ronald Grigor Suny, Elizabeth Wood, Stephen E Hanson, and Andrea Graziosi. “The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia.” Journal of Cold War Studies 24, no. 2 (2022): 132–58.

Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine