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National borders don't stop in the physical world – they're in cyberspace too
 

January 17, 2019 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Mining a trove of text

January 9, 2019 MIT DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Few students boast as precocious a start in their field as Andrew Halterman.  At age seven, Halterman accompanied his mom, a political scientist, on a research trip to Bosnia. It was just a few months after the ceasefire in that region's civil war. "I learned all about the conflict and ethnic cleansing," he says. 

Foreign Affairs has named Barry Posen's article, "The Rise of Illiberal Hegemony," one of the Best of 2018.

December 21, 2018 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Looking at justice through the lens of political theory

December 6, 2018 MIT News

It’s a charged time to be talking about justice. But in Bernardo Zacka’s classroom, the concept of justice is center stage. An assistant professor of political science, Zacka is inclined to teach on topics that are much discussed in the current political climate — including power, inequality, and the challenges of collective action.

Devoted Political Science Alumnus, Dana Mead PhD ’67, former chair of the MIT Corporation, dies at 82

November 9, 2018 MIT News