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At the end of June, after a two-decade tenure at the MIT Center for International Studies, Richard Samuels plans to step down. He will remain an active faculty member in the Department of Political Science and its Security Studies Program. Evan Lieberman, the current director of MISTI, will take on the leadership of CIS.

At the MIT Energy Initiative’s 2022 Annual Research Conference, participants acknowledged the deepening difficulties of decarbonizing a world rocked by geopolitical conflicts and suffering from supply chain disruptions, energy insecurity, inflation, and a persistent pandemic.

MIT Political Science graduate student Jung Jae Kwon seeks to understand how non-nuclear states achieve security.

Thirty congressional staffers were hosted by the MIT Security Studies Program for a series of seminars focused on contemporary national security issues.

Mit security studies program. so first if you could, liz, break down how this works? how sanctions could impact putin, the ruble, his economy as well as his oligarchs? could? it already is pretty want to make a moment the stock exchange open about nine and half hours its going to be widely watched because it could plummet even further than it did on thursday but down a third of a percent because of what we saw yesterday specifically yesterday would confirm that russia would be kicked off at leas...

That power plant is now occupied by the russians. but its nuclear reactors remain intact. russian forces are approaching ukraines second largest facility according to the u.s. ambassador to the united states. joining me right now, the executive director at the davis center for russian studies at harvard and international security analyst jim walsh will be with us momentarily. hes a research associate at m.i.t. security studies program. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. saying the world averted nuc...

The MIT Center for International Studies and Security Studies Program are offering new war gaming resources for modeling human behavior and decision-making in real-world scenarios.

MIT faculty offered analysis of the war in Ukraine, including thoughts on sanctions, military strategy, and Putin’s end goals at a seminar hosted by the MIT Security Studies Program. The event featured Mariya Grinberg, Barry Posen, Carol Saivetz, and Elizabeth Wood.

Credits: Photo: Aidan Milliff Next image Why do some people fight and others flee when confronting violence? “This question has been bothering me for quite some time,” says Aidan Milliff, a fifth-year doctoral student who entered political science to explore the strategic choices people make in perilous times. “We’ve learned a great deal how economic status, identity, and pressure from community shape decisions people make while under threat,” says Mi...

Anything is better to keep these things separate. it is in chinas self-interest to make sure north korea behaves. lets work together cooperatively on that and then keep our fight over trade separate. that is what i would say anyway. mike: what is your take on secretary pompeo naming a new special representative for north korea? >> mike, it is great news. i have been pressing for that for a while. as talented as he is he cannot be everywhere at once. at some point he has to stop going to pyongyan...