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"Becoming Enemies" Emerges from US-Iran Project The first book from the Center's US-Iran project was published in May—Becoming Enemies: US-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, the book is the work of five coauthors who are the key players in the project: James Blight and Janet Lang (University of Waterloo), Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive), Hussein Banai (Occidental College), and the Center's John Tirman. Bruce Riedel, who advised President Clinton on U.S.-Iran issues, contributed a foreword. The project is designed to bring together policy makers from the US, Iran, and elsewhere to explore in detail, often for the first time as a group, the key events in a difficult relationship. The project asks if there were missed opportunities to improve the relationship, and why. Later works will examine the period of reform and the 2001-2009 period. It is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Arca Foundation, and an MIT alumnae family.

précis Spring Issue Now Online The spring issue of précis is now available. The main features include: an interview with Vipin Narang, assistant professor of political science and faculty member of the Security Studies Program; an excerpt from Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion, by Roger Petersen. Petersen, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, received the ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) 2012 Joseph Rothschild Prize for his work; and an essay "What Might an India-Pakistan War Look Like?" by Christopher Clary, a PhD candidate in political science at MIT.

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