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	In the News November 8, 2024 Posen featured on "Today Ukraine, Tomorrow the World: NATO as the Lynchpin of the American Empire" Panel The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and a member of the Center’s Security Studies Program, was featured on a panel discussing the future of NATO and its signifance in American security.
	In the News November 7, 2024 MIT Global Seed Fund enables German-American project for new modeling methods University of Stuttgart In a collaborative project, researchers from the Institute of Automotive Engineering in Stuttgart and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aim to enhance vehicle models. This German-American partnership has been made possible through the MIT Global Seed Fund.
	In the News November 7, 2024 Kelly Greenhill on the weaponization of migration Adrian BurtinVox Europe Kelly Greenhill, faculty director of the Center’s Seminar XXI program, speaks on the weaponization of migration, a tactic used by autocratic governments to influence neighbouring countries.
	In the News November 6, 2024 Has Trump's win cost Ukraine the war? What geopolitics experts think Newsweek With Trump's election, the notion of reversing Russian gains seems utterly implausible. Ukraine may be able to continue to defend most of its remaining territory, with the help of its other allies, but it will get only modest help from the US, says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and a member of the Center’s Security Studies Program. Read more.
	News@E40 November 5, 2024 MENA/MIT and MIT-Arab World call for applications for science journalism workshop
	In the News November 4, 2024 Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond Scott Murray Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at CIS, directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR).
	In the News November 1, 2024 Israel's latest escalation in Middle East stokes fears of larger regional conflict WBUR Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses Israel's recent airstrikes towards Iran and its implications for the region.
	In the News October 28, 2024 Areg Danagoulian, faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, is among the recipients of an academic fellowship Areg Danagoulian, the faculty co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program, received the 2024 Forum on Physics and Society Fellowship “for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms control and cargo security, which significantly benefit international security.”
	In the News October 25, 2024 Stopping the bomb Kunal Singh, political scientist of the Security Studies Program, identifies a suite of strategies states use to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons.
	In the News October 24, 2024 World Business Report: The 2024 BRICS Summit Mihaela Papa, director of research and principal research scientist at CIS, discusses the 2024 BRICS summit and the group's progress on moving away from the dollar and managing internal conflicts.