Interested in crisis signaling? Check out my new International Studies Quarterly article, 'Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter,' co-authored with MIT SSP PhD Grad Student Ben Harris (1/4)

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The Institute’s “mind and hand” ethos has found a home in the UAE. Twelve MIT students embedded in MITdesignX Dubai accelerator (MDXB) in January. Thank you MISTI for helping make this possible!

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SSP PhD student Sam Leiter (Sam Leiter) was recently awarded a 12-month research grant from the Fulbright Commission.

He will participate in the program from the University of Tokyo.

Congrats, Sam!

Join us on MIT campus May 1 for this informative event on Hamas, Israel and PA. Pouya Alimagham | پويا عالي مقام and colleagues from History Section at MIT Hebrew University MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT events

Reporting by Gabriela Sá Pessoa (a recent International Women's Media Foundation fellow at CIS): “No other region of the world has a transformation of the automotive industry that is as fast-paced as in China,” Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume.... spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rochester/…

Togo’s parliamentary election: Why all eyes are on President Gnassingbe aje.io/1pwwa4 via Al Jazeera English reporting by former CIS International Women's Media Foundation fellow and Shola Lawal #AfricaMatters

Prof Bourouiba's research is shaping infectious disease guidelines. She says she has 'been working with the MIT Policy Lab (at CIS) to disseminate our findings to public health officials and various agencies.' Read more:

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Special thanks to Marika Landau-Wells for joining us for this week’s Wednesday Seminar lecture! Her talk on Neuroscience and National Security is archived on our YouTube page.

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'The supposed greatness of major powers obscures the strains and pressures roiling within,' writes former CIS fellow Shivshankar Menon in Foreign Affairs
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“Being a civil engineer is a career but also a vocation, a calling to use math and science to solve societal problems and help or improve communities,” MIT senior Mikayla Britsch say. She did MISTI in Chile and Mexico.

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CIS scholar Eric Heginbotham says missiles would counterbalance China’s advantage in having more warships, “and that’s why the U.S. has gone on a huge missile buying spree recently.”

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South Korea's desire for their own nuclear weapons, driven by fears of war, seems impervious to US security guarantees, writes James D. Kim--an MIT SSP Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. Read the full article:

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'The small number of US troops in Iraq do not shift the balance of power or effectively manage either containing ISIS or deterring Iran–backed militias.'
-Former CIS fellow Steve Simon & Adam Weinstein

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'It is no accident that Israel and Iran are on the precipice of war. It is the result of long-standing agendas devised by misguided policymakers on both sides.' (former CIS Fellow Steven Simon)

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Migrants welcomed by a refugee's daughter repaying kindness. Read this inspiring story by CIS International Women's Media Foundation fellow Anjana Sankar
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The MIT-Mexico Program at CIS has fostered cross-border collaboration for two decades. MIT-Mexico funds student internships and teaching, as well as faculty research collaborations.

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Twenty-three MIT faculty honored as Committed to Caring! The honor recognizes professors for their outstanding mentorship of graduate students. Congrats to CIS faculty Kenneth Oye, Mariya Grinberg, & Erik Lin-Greenberg

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Congratulations to this year's CIS Summer Research Grant awardees!

Nicholas Blanchette Mariel García-Montes @[email protected] Jared Kalow Casper Keysers Rustam Khan Sam Leiter Sukrit Singh Puri MITPoliticalScience MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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For two decades, MIT-Mexico has funded student internships and teaching, as well as faculty research collaborations.

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