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Narang was the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science at MIT, as well as a member of...

MIT Political Science and the MIT Security Studies Program are proud to announce that Vipin Narang, Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science, was sworn in as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy on Monday, March 28, 2022.

Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.

War games and crisis simulations are exercises where participants make decisions to simulate real-world behavior. In the field of international security, games are frequently used to study how actors make decisions during conflict, but they can also be used to model human behavior in countless other scenarios. 

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.

A discussion between Sushant Singh and US security expert Taylor Fravel.

As the Cold War brewed and in the name of national security, decisionmakers in Washington and occupation authorities in postwar Japan took under their protective wing war criminals who were behind gruesome biological warfare in China.

Kyiv, Moscow prepare for talks as Ukraine’s army says Russian forces are ‘continuing shelling in almost all directions’.

The MIT Starr Forum tackles the future of U.S.-China relations. Read more about this event on Boston.com.

Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us by McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0199747431 - ISBN 13:  9780199747436 - OUP USA - 2011 - Hardcover