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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.

Burnet County commissioner owes $18.9K in animal cruelty case

Hospice Quinte has received a crowning commitment of $30,000 over the next 10-years thanks to a local family-owned corporation. Crown Ridge Health Care…

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.

Pushing non-professional soldiers into battle is a sign of desperation.

<p>If economic sanctions become a replacement for military force in international conflict, they also risk becoming a normal part of nationalist economic policy that escalates international rivalry as a feature of the global economy. </p>

The sanctions imposed on Russia over the past three weeks have been among the most stringent on any country in modern times. Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, described the freeze on the assets of Russia’s central bank, in particular, as “an absolutely radical measure… a break-the-glass ...

The relentless logic of the war is pushing it beyond Ukraine’s borders. Can the West contain the conflict without giving Putin the upper hand?