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	In the News October 24, 2024 Can Europe really build its own DARPA? Fiona Murray and Frølund European leaders, from Emmanuel Macron to Mario Draghi, have called for the European Union to create its own version of the United States government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But this is not a new idea, and attempted clones on the continent have failed to achieve their full potential. Read the latest from Fiona Murray, faculty director of MIT-United Kingdom.
	In the News October 18, 2024 Ukraine’s bold Kursk offensive: A turning point or bargaining chip? Carol R. Saivetz For the Ukrainian president, the Kursk offensive is the first step toward a possible end-game more favorable to Ukraine. With all the unknowns, it is unclear whether his gambit will succeed.
	In the News October 17, 2024 Envisioning a stable military balance M. Taylor Fravel & Eric Heginbotham SSP Director M. Taylor Fravel and principal research scientist Eric Heginbotham's latest research essay, "Envisioning a Stable Military Balance," appears on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's "U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence."
	In the News October 15, 2024 BRICS and multilateralism: Four dynamics to watch at the Kazan Summit Mihaela Papa The upcoming BRICS summit, which will take place in the Russian city of Kazan from October 22 to 24, 2024, will be a critical test of the group’s capacity to sustain its growth and work toward uniting the countries of the "global majority." To understand the implications of the enlarged BRICS group for Western global governance agendas, Mihaela Papa, director of research and a principal research scientist at CIS, describes the key dynamics to watch
	In the News October 9, 2024 Expanded BRICS needs to innovate to show its influence Director of research and principal research scientist, Mihaela Papa, discusses how the economic integration of emerging market nations within the expanded BRICS group will be enhanced by advancements in proposals like a payments system and grain exchange.
	In the News October 8, 2024 Wars are not accidents: Managing risk in the face of escalation Erik Lin-GreenbergForeign Affairs Israel’s assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran in July, Ukraine’s incursion over the summer into Russia, and a recent series of increasingly assertive Chinese air and maritime interceptions in the South China Sea have fanned fears that long-simmering conflicts could escalate into broader wars. In the wake of these provocations, analysts fret about the heightened risk of military accidents and strategic misperceptions.
	In the News October 2, 2024 3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia MIT News MIT professors Michael Short and Manduhai Buyandelger launched the Anthro-Engineering Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale, an initiative intended to advance a heat bank prototype in Mongolia and ultimately demonstrate its potential as a scalable clean heat source in comparably challenging sites around the world. The project received funding from the MIT Global Seed Funds program.
	In the News October 2, 2024 Can the US stop Israel from attacking Iran's nuclear sites? US President Joe Biden said he would not support any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites in response to its ballistic missile attack. Jim Walsh, a senior research associate at the MIT’s Security Studies Program who was with the Iranian president last week, says it needs to ‘be tested’ whether Biden can be persuasive 30 days shy of an election.
	In the News September 27, 2024 Q&A: David Singer on strengthening democracy MIT News CIS research affiliate and head of the political science department David A. Singer discusses a new Strengthening Democracy initiative focused on the rigorous study of elections, public opinion, and political participation.
	In the News September 16, 2024 Three SSP PhD students selected to receive fellowships from USIP Three PhD students of the Security Studies Program (SSP) received the 2024-2025 Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships from the U.S. Institute of Peace for demonstrating the greatest potential to advance the peacebuilding field and the strongest likelihood to inform policy and practice.