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SSP's Wednesday Seminar Series will resume for the Spring semester on February 15, 2012, with Joby Warrick, from the Washington Post. The topic: "Triple Agent: Lessons from the CIA’s Disaster at Khost, Afghanistan." more information
The Security Studies Program at MIT is a graduate-level research and educational program based at the Center for International Studies at MIT. The senior research and teaching staff includes social scientists and policy analysts. A special feature of the program is the integration of technical and political analysis of national and international security problems. Security Studies is a recognized field of study in the MIT Political Science Department. Courses emphasize grand strategy, the causes and prevention of conflict, military operations and technology, and defense policy.
Kelly Greenhill has been awarded the International Studies Association (ISA) Best Book Award for 2011 for her book Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy. The award will be conferred at the 2012 ISA Annual Convention in San Diego in April. more information
Benjamin H. Friedman was on the BBC's World Today on January 27, 2012 to discuss "the Pentagon's 2013 budget request."
December 19, 2011, Jim Walsh was quoted in a New York Times article titled "Kim Jong-il, North Korean Dictator, Dies Suddenly."
The MIT News Office interviewed Stephen Van Evera on December 16, 2011. The article is titled "3 Questions: Stephen Van Evera on the withdrawal from Iraq."
Taylor Fravel was quoted extensively in a December 15, 2011 article in The Atlantic, by James Fallows, titled "What's Up in China: Hint, It's Not War With the U.S."
Benjamin H. Friedman, America Is Not a Military Unit," The National Interest, January 25, 2012.
Harvey M. Sapolsky, "Defense Industrial Policy Myths Debunked," National Defense, February 2012.
Boaz Atzili, Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict, University of Chicago Press, 2012.
The MIT Security Studies Program's 2010-2011 Annual Report is now available. Click here to read the report (pdf). more information
Roger Petersen, Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
