SSP has moved to a new location!
The new address is E40-400, 4th floor (just around the corner from our old building. Click here for a map of the new location.
All phone numbers stay the same.
Annual Report
The MIT Security Studies Program's 2008-2009 Annual Report is now available.
SSP Alumnus on CNN
SSP Alumnus Alan Kuperman appeared on CNN's Amanpour to discuss the reasons rebels provoke their state despite knowing they cannot defeat it. Click here to watch the video (video begins at the 9:30 mark) or you can read the transcript here.
Congressional Testimony
Cindy Williams was invited to testify on October 27, 2009 before the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation of the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. The subject of the hearing was "Research Priorities in the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security." Click here for a written transcript of her testimony. See also an article in the November 6, 2009 issue of Science Magazine titled "Peer Review Not Popular at Homeland Security".
Breakthroughs Manuscript now available
To mark the 65th anniversary of Operation Cobra, the breakout of U.S. and British forces from the Normandy Penninsula on July 25, 1944, we post a study that has languished for fifteen years in the files of the MIT Security Studies Program, Breakthroughs: Armored Offensives in Western Europe, 1944. We hope that it will be of some interest to students of armored warfare, and offer it as a modest tribute to the allied soldiers who liberated Western Europe from the Nazi regime. --Barry R. Posen
Publications and Media Appearances
Harvey M. Sapolsky, "The War Has Been Postponed," Op-Ed, Defense News, October 18, 2009.
Professor Stephen Van Evera was on Minnesota Public Radio's "Midday" on October 16, 2009. The topic: "President Obama weighs options in Afghanistan."
Harvey M. Sapolsky, Benjamin H. Friedman, Eugene Gholz, and Daryl G. Press, "Restraining Order: For Strategic Modesty," World Affairs, Fall 2009, pp. 84-94.
Peter Bergen and Sameer Lalwani, "Putting the 'I' in Aid," Op-Ed, New York Times, October 2, 2009.
Jim Walsh has been in the media numerous times in September, 2009. His appearances include a video talk at MIT on "Iran's Nuclear Program: A Race Between Sanctions and Centrifuges," several CNN appearances, WBUR's Here and Now, September 25 broadcast, and a New York Times Op-Ed, September 25, 2009, titled "Sanctions Can't Be the Centerpiece."
Sameer Lalwani, "Pakistani Capabilities for a Counterinsurgency Campaign: A Net Assessment," New America Foundation, September 2009.
Peter Krause and Stephen Van Evera, "Public Diplomacy: Ideas for the War of Ideas," Middle East Policy, Vol. XVI, No. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 106-134.
Wednesday Seminar SeriesThe SSP Wednesday Seminar Series runs from 12 to 1:30PM in E40, 4th floor conference room during the Spring and Fall semesters. November 18 December 2 |
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