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MIT Political Science PhD candidate Apekshya Prasai looks forward to a career devoted to uncovering the complex ways in which gender, violence, and politics shape the lives of people and trajectories of societies across South Asia.

Village by village, Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive is grinding forward -- but the pace is slow, and Russia is already counterattacking in some places. Worries are growing in the West about whether Kyiv can pull off a repeat of last year’s sweeping battlefield successes.

A new Chinese documentary includes testimonials from Chinese troops, who say they are willing to sacrifice their lives to defeat Taiwan.

Russian forces have been successfully tackling Kiev’s counteroffensive, which has already seen heavy losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping has overhauled the military leadership managing China’s nuclear arsenal amid reports of a sweeping corruption probe in the rocket force that would play a key role in an invasion of Taiwan. Most Read from BloombergAsia’s Richest Families Fuel Race for Lucrative Finance JobsUS, Europe Growing Alarmed by China’s Rush Into Legacy ChipsCharles Koch-Tied Group Seeks to Block Trump From GOP NominationMyanmar Junta Pardons Aung San Suu Kyi on Some...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said he had asked CIA Director William Burns to become a member of his cabinet, elevating one of his clos...

Joe Biden's comments came in response to a query from the Finnish reporter during a press conference in Helsinki

DeSantis recently vowed to get rid of four federal agencies if elected president, including the department responsible for the countrys nuclear program.

Suzanne Freeman and Mariel Garcia-Montes are the recipients of the 2023 Jeanne Guillemin Prize at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS). The prize provides financial support to women studying international affairs, a field that has long been dominated by men.

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