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On April 19, 2012, the 2012 James Doolittle Award was presented to Professor Richard K. Betts, Director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. The topic of Professor Betts' talk: "The Decline of Deterrence." click here to watch the video
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Christopher Clary, "What Might an India-Pakistan War Look Like?" Précis, Spring 2012.
M. Taylor Fravel and Vipin Narang, "The Asian Arms Race That Wasn't," op-ed, Foreign Policy, May 8, 2012.
Harvey M. Sapolsky and Michael Schrage, "More Than Technology Needed to Defeat Roadside Bombs," National Defense, April 2012.
Jennifer Lind and Gregory Koblentz have both been awarded tenure. Jennifer Lind will be Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth, and Greg Koblentz will be Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University.
Joshua Shifrinson was featured in an MIT News Office article, "Decline of Power Play: Military Strategy for a declining United States in a complex world," May 22, 2012.
An interview with Vipin Narang appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Précis. That same issue also contains an excerpt from Roger Petersen's book, Western Intervention in the Balkans.
Roger Petersen has been awarded the ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) 2012 Joseph Rothschild Prize for his book, Western Intervention in the Balkans.
On April 18, 2012, Amanda Rothschild gave the keynote address at the 2012 University Fellowships Dinner at Boston College to honor undergraduates who competed for national fellowships this year or received internal fellowships.
On April 17, 2012, Jim Walsh gave a talk at MIT titled "My 5 Dinners with Ahmadinejad: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, the Middle East."
