précis, the MIT Center for International Studies newsletter, covers the wide range of Center activities and tracks the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. It is published twice yearly, once during each academic semester. Both the current issue and past issues of précis are featured online.
 
 Cindy Williams, principal research scientist at the Security Studies Program, discusses with précis the budget deficit, including military spending, DOD personnel costs, sequestration, and President Obama's recently proposed budget.
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By Nazli Choucri
 Nazli Choucri, professor of political science, describes in her book that cyberspace is "a venue of unprecedented opportunity, a source of vulnerability, a disturbance in the familiar international order, and a venue of potential threat to national security." Read More
The Right to Kill?
By Graham Denyer Willis
 Across political and social thinking, the idea that the state has the right to kill its own citizens is rarely contested. From Hobbes to Weber and Mbembe, it is explicit or implied that states decide the conditions under which citizens can, and indeed should, die in order to preserve sovereignty.
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précis, the MIT Center for International Studies newsletter, covers the wide range of Center activities and tracks the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers and affiliates.
It is published twice yearly, once during each academic semester. 
