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MIT Center for International Studies
The Center for International Studies (CIS) aims to support and promote international research and education at MIT. The Center has traditionally been aligned with the social sciences while working with MIT’s premier science and engineering scholars whenever possible. We produce research that creatively addresses global issues, while helping to educate the next generation of global citizens. The work and expertise of CIS-affiliated scholars inform public opinion, government decision makers, international organizations, and the MIT community. The Center’s programs, projects, and the individual output of faculty, staff, and graduate students are reflected in research, public outreach, and publications. CIS includes 120 members of MIT faculty and staff, mainly drawn from the departments of political science and urban studies, and visiting scholars from around the world. The Center is committed to supporting diversity, inclusion, equity, and well-being among the students, faculty, staff, and visitors who form our community. The Center’s annual budget is roughly $11.4 million. Our work is supported by individual donors, foundations, and governments. We also receive support from endowment income and MIT.Visit Site
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April 26, 2024
Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar: Gaza: ‘Can Anyone Hear Us?’
By: Sara Roy -
April 12, 2024
Starr Forum: China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST
By: Yasheng Huang, Will Knight -
March 06, 2024
Mapping exile: Bridging knowledge and advocating for scholars at risk
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February 07, 2024
Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe
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January 22, 2024
MIT reflects on COP28
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November 17, 2023
Starr Forum: A permanent partnership? How Xi and Putin are shaping a turbulent world
By: Natasha Kuhrt -
November 03, 2023
Starr Forum: The Israel-Hamas conflict: Expert perspectives on the ongoing crisis
By: Marsin Alshamary, David Kirkpatrick, Peter Krause, Steven Simon, Evan Lieberman -
October 07, 2023
Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America
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October 02, 2023
Starr Forum: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoglu, Fotini Christia -
September 20, 2023
Starr Forum: Rebuilding Ukraine While Under Fire
By: Oleg Ustenko, Simon Johnson -
May 15, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's New Data
By: Kenfield Griffith, Claude Grunitzky -
May 08, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Forgotten Heroes
By: Kudzanai Chiurai, Claude Grunitzky -
May 01, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s New Activists
By: Busisiwe Seabe, Claude Grunitzky -
May 01, 2023
Starr Forum: Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
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April 25, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's New Development Models
By: Nicolas Kazadi, Claude Grunitzky -
April 25, 2023
Emile Bustani Seminar: "The Egyptian army in the 1967 Six-Day War: Lessons for the present"
By: Khaled Fahmy -
April 25, 2023
Starr Forum: Chornobyl to Zaporizhzhia: The Atom and its Impact on Ukraine’s Politics and Security
By: Kate Brown, Mariana Budjeryn -
April 24, 2023
Majority Minority: How do societies respond to great demographic change?
By: Justin Gest -
April 19, 2023
Starr Forum | Reinventing Japan...Again?
By: Richard Samuels, Mary Brinton, Eric Heginbotham, Ulrike Schaede, Kiyoteru Tsutsui -
April 10, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Next Startups
By: Tidjane Deme, Claude Grunitzky -
April 06, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's E-Governance, feat. President José Maria Neves
By: José Maria Neves, Claude Grunitzky -
March 28, 2023
Starr Forum | The Iraq Invasion: 20 years Later
By: Peter Krause, Marsin Alshamary, Roger Petersen, Steven Simon -
March 28, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Sustainable Development In Africa: Africa's New Narratives
By: Moky Makura, Claude Grunitzky -
March 22, 2023
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Future Leaders
By: Oby Ezekwesili, Claude Grunitzky -
March 16, 2023
Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries
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March 03, 2023
Enhancing the Benefits of Human Mobility through Development Interventions
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March 02, 2023
Starr Forum: Ukraine and Russia One Year On: The Domestic Impact of the War
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February 13, 2023
Refugees Revitalizing Emptied Spain
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January 26, 2023
tarr Forum: Iran and the Struggle for 'Normalcy': Woman, Life, Freedom
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December 12, 2022
Starr Forum: Energy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine and Europe in Challenging Times
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November 21, 2022
Starr Forum: Xi Jinping's Third Term: Challenges for the United States
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October 11, 2022
tarr Forum: An Update on Russia's War Against Ukraine
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September 20, 2022
Starr Forum: Speaking Truth to a New Power: Perspectives on Free Press and Democracy in South Africa
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June 24, 2022
Starr Forum: #ViralPotentials: How South Asian Women Use TikTok
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May 22, 2022
Starr Forum: Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
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April 29, 2022
Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp
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April 25, 2022
Starr Forum: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the seeds of the new European war
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April 21, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: #TheAfricaWeWant
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April 14, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Cultural Force
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April 14, 2022
Starr Forum: Governing the Unpredictable: Disasters, the State, and Futures
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April 07, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: What Kinds of Future Leaders Does Africa Need?
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March 31, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s New Models for Education
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March 17, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Growth Prospects
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March 10, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: Africa's Information Technologies
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March 03, 2022
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Innovation in Education
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March 01, 2022
The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
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February 25, 2022
Starr Forum: The Future of US - China Relations
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February 17, 2022
Starr Forum: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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February 07, 2022
Immigrant entrepreneurship in startup cities — what works in which context?
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February 03, 2022
Starr Forum: Autocracy’s Assault on Press Freedom
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January 28, 2022
Starr Forum: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict: A prologue to WWIII or another frozen conflict?
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November 21, 2021
Starr Forum: The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
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November 10, 2021
Starr Forum: The Future of US-Russian Relations: More of the Same or Something Different?
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October 07, 2021
Starr Forum: Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?
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September 14, 2021
Starr Forum: US, Afghanistan, 9/11: Finished or Unfinished Business?
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September 10, 2021
Responses to 9-11: The United States, Europe, and the Middle East
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May 24, 2021
Starr Forum: The Haitian Constitutional Crisis and the International Community
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May 24, 2021
Starr Forum: Israelis and Palestinians: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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May 17, 2021
Starr Forum: Myanmar and South Asia: Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Refugees
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May 14, 2021
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Future Governmen
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May 07, 2021
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Agricultural Reinvention with Sara Menker
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April 29, 2021
MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Innovation in Education
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September 16, 2013
Debating US Interests in Syria's Civil War
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February 16, 2013
Attack of the Drones: Ethical, Legal and Strategic Implications of UAV Use
By: Lena Simone Andrews -
September 01, 2012
Nobody's Century: The American Proposal in Post-Imperial Times
By: Chas W. Freeman Jr. -
July 01, 2009
Multilateral Imposition: An Immodest Proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By: Michael Barnett -
December 01, 2008
U.S. and Colombia: A Growing Military Intervention?
By: Jenny Manrique Cortes -
November 01, 2008
Recovering the Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition
By: Nick Bromell, John Tirman -
November 01, 2008
State-Building and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: Jeremy Allouche -
October 15, 2008
The Global Financial Crisis and Obstacles to U.S. Leadership
By: David Singer -
October 01, 2008
The U.S. and Iran in Afghanistan: Policy Gone Awry
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September 01, 2008
Iran-U.S.: The Case for Transformation
By: Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, John Tirman -
September 01, 2008
Does the “Surge” Explain Iraq’s Improved Security?
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August 01, 2008
Turkey's Crisis and Future
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June 01, 2008
Who Leads Russia?
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May 01, 2008
Much ado about nothing: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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May 01, 2008
Pakistan's Governance Imperative
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May 01, 2008
Insights Into Two American Empires
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April 01, 2008
Wilson and the Founders: The Roots of Liberal Foreign Policy
By: Ted Widmer -
April 01, 2008
Wilson, Bush, and the Evolution of Liberal Foreign Policy
By: Tony Smith -
April 01, 2008
Good and Bad News on Global Development
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April 01, 2008
Wilson’s Radical Vision for Global Governance
By: Erez Manela -
March 01, 2008
A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff
By: William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, Jim Walsh -
February 01, 2008
Iraq's Three Civil Wars
By: Juan Cole -
December 01, 2007
Russia: An Energy Superpower?
By: Carol Saivetz -
December 01, 2007
The U.S. and Iran After the NIE
By: Farideh Farhi -
November 01, 2007
Is Port Security Funding Making Us Safer?
By: Veronique de Rugy -
November 01, 2007
Russia and America: Is Another Arms Race Afoot?
By: Jane M.O. Sharp -
October 01, 2007
Who Failed Whom? Assessing the UN's Human Rights Efforts
By: Balakrishnan Rajagopal -
September 01, 2007
Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline: Is it a peace pipeline?
By: Abbas Maleki -
May 01, 2007
Turkey: Misperceptions and the Healing Touch of Democracy
By: Doğu Ergil -
April 01, 2007
Can Scientific Codes of Conduct Deter Bioweapons?
By: Jeanne Guillemin -
April 01, 2007
China’s Premature Rise to Great Power
By: Liselotte Odgaard -
April 01, 2007
Paying for Homeland Security: Show Me the Money
By: Cindy Williams -
March 01, 2007
China’s Energy Governance: Perception and Reality
By: Edward A. Cunningham -
March 01, 2007
Sudan at the Crossroads
By: Francis M. Deng -
February 01, 2007
Troop Levels in Stability Operations: What We Don’t Know
By: Peter Krause -
February 01, 2007
North Korea: Negotiations Work
By: Leon V. Sigal -
January 01, 2007
Iraq’s Political Factions: The Last Chance to Build a Governing Coalition?
By: Barry R. Posen -
December 01, 2006
Regionalizing the Iraq Conflict?
By: John Tirman -
November 01, 2006
Violence and Insecurity: The Challenge in the Global South
By: Diane E. Davis -
October 01, 2006
Waiting for Goldilocks: Getting Japan’s Foreign Policy Just Right
By: Richard J Samuels -
October 01, 2006
The War on Terror: Forgotten Lessons from World War II
By: Stephen W. Van Evera -
October 01, 2006
The Bush Administration is Weak on Terror
By: Stephen W. Van Evera -
September 01, 2006
The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Triumph of the Business Lobby
By: Subrata Ghoshroy -
August 01, 2006
Why Do Islamist Groups Become Transnational and Violent?
By: Quinn Mecham -
August 01, 2006
Channel Surfing: Non-engagement as Foreign Policy
By: Barbara K. Bodine -
June 05, 2006
Immigration and Insecurity: Post-9/11 Fear in the United States
By: John Tirman -
June 05, 2006
Budgets to Make America Safer
By: Cindy Williams -
April 05, 2006
The War on Terror and the Cold War: They're Not the Same
By: John Tirman -
April 05, 2006
Human Bombs: Rethinking Religion and Terror
By: Nichole Argo -
April 05, 2006
A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?
By: Hugh Gusterson -
March 05, 2006
Japan-China Relations: Four Fallacies Masquerading as Common Sense
By: Kazuo Ogoura -
March 05, 2006
Remittances: Latin America's Faulty Lifeline
By: Catherine Elton -
March 05, 2006
We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran
By: Barry R. Posen -
January 05, 2006
Is Iran's Reform Movement Dead?
By: Fatemeh Haghighatjoo -
January 05, 2006
A Better Strategy Against Narcoterrorism
By: Vanda Felbab-Brown -
November 05, 2005
The Hidden Cost of Homeland Defense
By: Benjamin Friedman -
November 05, 2005
Why Intelligence Isn't to Blame for 9/11
By: Joshua Rovner -
September 05, 2005
The Mirage of a United Europe
By: Robert Vickers -
September 05, 2005
Who Needs the U.N.?
By: Gary G. Troeller -
September 05, 2005
Iran: Rogue State?
By: Ali Mostashari -
July 05, 2005
Filling the Army's Ranks for the Iraq War
By: Cindy Williams -
July 05, 2005
The Iraq War: Do Civilian Casualties Matter?
By: Les Roberts -
July 05, 2005
All Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Not Equal
By: Allison Macfarlane -
April 05, 2005
Introducing a Series
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April 05, 2005
The United States as an Asian Power: Realism or Conceit?
By: M. Taylor Fravel, Richard J. Samuels -
April 05, 2005
U.S. Military Power: Strong Enough to Deter all Challenges?
By: Barry R. Posen -
April 05, 2005
Raising the Salience of Mexico and Canada
By: Chappell Lawson -
April 05, 2005
Why U.S. National Security Requires Mideast Peace
By: Stephen W. Van Evera