Recent News
PhD students Nicholas Blanchette, Eleanor Freund, & Eyal Hanfling Awarded as Peace Scholar Fellows from the U.S. Institute of Peace
U.S. Institute of Peace
September 16, 2024
Enabled by a significant gift, MIT’s Security Studies Program launches the Center for Nuclear Security Policy
Peter Dizikes | MIT News
September 4, 2024
Nurturing Success: Professors Mariya Grinberg and Nuh Gedik are honored as “Committed to Caring.”
Jody Mou | MIT News, Office of Graduate Education
September 3, 2024
China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction
M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham| War on the Rocks
September 2, 2024
Podcast on Estimating China's Defense Spending
M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, Eric Heginbotham, and Rick Landgraf | War on the Rocks
August 23, 2024
The Taliban’s Three Years in Power and What Lies Ahead
Vanda Felbab-Brown | Brookings
August 14, 2024
With tensions rising in the Middle East, what role can the U.S. play?
Jim Walsh | WBUR: Here and Now
July 31, 2024
Security Dilemmas, Great Powers, & International Order with Charles Glaser
John Glaser | Cato Institute - Power Problems Podcast
July 23, 2024
Japan’s intelligence capabilities with Professor Richard J Samuels, Professor Kotani Ken and Hosaka Sanshiro
Robert Ward | IISS
July 11, 2024
Talmadge: How would Trump and Biden handle US nuclear policy upon reelection?
Caitlin Talmadge | Brookings
July 8, 2024
Owen Coté, military technology expert and longtime associate director of the Security Studies Program, dies at 63
MIT Center for International Studies | MIT News
June 26, 2024
Fear Factor: How to Know When You’re in a Security Dilemma
Charles L. Glaser | Foreign Affairs
June 18, 2024
Estimating China’s Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and Right)
M. Taylor Fravel, George J. Gilboy, Eric Heginbotham | Texas National Security Review
June 6, 2024
When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Adversary Perceptions of Nuclear No-First-Use Pledges
Caitlin Talmadge, Lisa Michelini, and Vipin Narang | International Security
June 5, 2024
China’s Global Security Initiative at Two: A Journey, Not a Destination
M. Taylor Fravel | China Leadership Model
June 4, 2024
Modeling the threat of nuclear war
Poornima Apte | MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
May 30, 2024
The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan
Kathrin Hille, Demetri Sevastopulo, and the Visual Storytelling Team | Financial Times
May 21, 2024