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Mariana Budjeryn, senior researcher at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy, examines the history of Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
📰Read her full piece via @EPIK_Ukraine: epik.eu/publication/budapest…
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In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, Eric D. Evans, former director of
@MITLL, will examine national security technology priorities for improving defense and deterrence capabilities.
🗓️10/7 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
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The Security Study Program’s fall newsletter is now available. 🚨Early Warning has all the program’s activities, stories, and special events. Plus, catch up on faculty, fellows, alumni, and associate news, including publications, appearances, podcasts, and more.
Check it out: mailchi.mp/mit/earlywarningf…
📬Subscribe now to receive quarterly updates from your favorite newsletter, Early Warning, directly to your inbox: ssp.mit.edu/about/early-warn…
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Join us tomorrow as Pierre Chao discusses the US defense industrial base, focusing on what drives and motivates the behavior of the defense industry and its government customer. Chao is a managing partner at Proteus Capital Solutions and a senior defense fellow at Aerospace Industries Association (@AIAspeaks). ✈Learn more: ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/stru…
🗓️9/30 at noon ET
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Thank you, @mark_s_bell, for your discussion, “No Good Options: The Extended Nuclear Deterrence Trilemma”, at this week’s Wednesday Seminar.
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ICYMI catch up on the conversation with the recorded stream 📡 ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/no-g…
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How can we best understand the evolving relationship between Russia and Iran at a time of great instability and war in the Middle East? SSP Senior Fellow Carol Saivetz joins a panel of experts to discuss Russia-Iran Relations: An Analytic Update.
Register to attend this online event from @HarrimanInst:
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🗓️9.24.26
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Join us for tomorrow's Wednesday Seminar in which University of Minnesota Professor Mark Bell discusses the trilemma created when states offer extended nuclear deterrence. Learn more: ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/no-g…
🗓️9/23 at noon ET
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Mariana Budjeryn, Center for Nuclear Security Policy Senior Researcher, joins a panel of experts to examine the future of nuclear deterrence from complementary angles—NATO policy, Euro-Atlantic security, arms control and European strategic responsibility. Presented by the @BIGEurope.
🗓️September 22, 2026
🕘10:30-11:30am ET
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Congratulations Mariya Grinberg, associate professor of political science, on your APSA book award!
Grinberg’s “Trade In War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines” examines why states keep trading even in the midst of conflict.
Available now from @CornellPress: cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…
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Prof. Mariya Grinberg has won the J. David Greenstone Book Prize from the American Political Science Association's Politics and History Section for her book Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines. @MIT_SHASS @MIT_SSP @MIT_CIS
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Thank you, Stacie Goddard, for your presentation, The Dynamics of Power Politics, at this week’s Wednesday Seminar!
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In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, University of Minnesota Professor Mark Bell (@mark_s_bell) discusses the trilemma created when states offer extended nuclear deterrence.
🗓️9/23 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
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On September 9, the Center for International Studies (@MIT_CIS), along with SSP, hosted a ceremony to dedicate E-40 room 460 to Richard Samuels, the Ford International Professor of Political Science and former director of CIS. Samuels is also the faculty director of the MIT-Japan program. The well-attended ceremony featured tributes from colleagues and close friends.
Congratulations, Dick!🎉
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Join us today for the first Wednesday Seminar of the fall semester. Professor Stacie Goddard, Columbia University, will give an overview of an in-process book manuscript, “The Dynamics of Power Politics”, which develops a relational-network approach to power political mobilization.
🗓️9/16 at noon ET
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Join us tomorrow at noon for the first Wednesday Seminar of the semester. Columbia University Professor Stacie Goddard will give an overview of an in-process book manuscript, “The Dynamics of Power Politics”, which develops a relational-network approach to power political mobilization.
🗓️9/16 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
📡Bookmark the livestream
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