News Archive — 2023 | MIT Security Studies Program (SSP)

An illustration of a Japanese skyline under a Japanese flag

Apr. 13 Starr Forum: Reinventing Japan ... Again?

March 30, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link in Moscow

What Putin’s Latest Nuke Announcement Really Means

Fred Kaplan | Slate

March 28, 2023

PhD Candidates Nicholas Blanchette, Wenyan Deng and Raymond Wang awarded World Politics Statecraft Fellowships

MIT Department of Political Science

March 24, 2023

3 Questions: The Iraq invasion, 20 years later

MIT CIS

March 22, 2023

Video of U.S. drone shows interference by Russian jets

Jim Walsh | WBUR: Here and Now

March 17, 2023

Around the halls: AUKUS defines an emerging alliance at sea

Caitlin Talmadge | Brookings

March 16, 2023

Taylor Fravel sitting with 3 other panelists and the moderator

“Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies | Harvard University

March 13, 2023

A statue of a man being pulled down from its pedestal by a crane

Mar. 24 Starr Forum: The Iraq invasion: Twenty years later | Zoom Webinar| Registration Required

March 10, 2023

The article title, author names, and author affiliations in a newspaper heading style

Crossing a Virtual Divide: Wargaming as a Remote Teaching Tool

Benjamin Harris and Suzanne Freeman | PS: Political Science & Politics

March 7, 2023

Stephen Van Evera sitting on a platform with 3 other panelists and a moderator in front of an audience

Nuclear War Theory: Continuity and Change

Columbia SIPA

March 3, 2023

Mar. 20th: Book talk with author, Jesse Driscoll: Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022

February 28, 2023

A still from a video of the launch of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile

The world returns to an era of nuclear angst

ÓSCAR GUTIÉRREZ | EL PAÍS

February 28, 2023

An illustration of a virtual face being created by someone's hands typing on a computer

The Deepfake Dangers Ahead

Daniel Byman, Chris Meserole And V.S. Subrahmanian | The Wall Street Journal

February 24, 2023

A Ukrainian tank drives down a street in the heavily damaged town of Siversk

'For as long as it takes': Can the West keep its promise to Ukraine?

Stefano Kotsonis and Kimberly Atkins Stohr | WBUR: On Point

February 21, 2023

Remembering Catherine McArdle Kelleher (PhD ’67), founding president of Women in International Security

February 21, 2023

China's President Xi Jinping in a suit and tie

Fravel: What’s Behind the Chinese Spy Balloon

Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker

February 18, 2023

The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down

Why There Are Suddenly So Many UFOs

Fred Kaplan | Slate

February 15, 2023

The Ukrainian and Russian flag fading into each other

Feb. 27 Starr Forum: Ukraine and Russia One Year On: The Domestic Impact of the War

February 13, 2023

A black and white image of a map of Ukraine and surrounding countries

Symposium: Lessons from Ukraine