“Once you’re a member of NATO, the commitment of the U.S. to take nuclear risks for you is a given… And this is the one thing missing from the relationship with Ukraine.” — Barry R. Posen.
'Foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to India was a reminder that China wants to return to diplomatic status quo with India,' M. Taylor Fravel, tells ThePrint’s Nayanima Basu in an interview.
There's a deep psychological reason that America treats nuclear weapons like a spoiled child hogging all the neighborhood candy. Are we too paranoid to see it?
Most nuclear proliferation scholarship focuses on why states seek nuclear weapons. The question of how nuclear aspirants attempt to acquire the bomb has received far less attention, but is in many ways more consequential for international peace and security. What strategies have states employed to develop nuclear weapons? And what are the implications of these strategies for proliferation and conflict dynamics?
Over the past months, China and India have continued the slow process of disengaging along sections of their disputed border in Ladakh. Yet the two sides continue to disagree about who is responsible for the standoff of 2020-21, which culminated in a deadly clash in Galwan Valley in June 2020. How do things stand along the border today, and what are the implications for the bilateral relationship?
"China's Military Strategy in the New Era," Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, with Speaker: M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
What can mis- and disinformation scholars learn from the security studies field? Erik Lin-Greenberg joined Susan Landau, Gabrielle Lim, and Joan Donovan for a Shorenstein Center 'Big, If True Webinar.'
Experts discuss a variety of threats to a healthy elections process in these unprecedented times and some actions that can be deployed to address and combat these challenges.
Reid B.C. Pauly explains how declassified records of wargames played by U.S. policymakers can reveal why nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945. From the March International Security Author Chats sessions.
Adam Berinsky, PhD, the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT, discusses trends in public perceptions of the media and science, and offered suggestions for addressing mistrust.
On August 30 – September 2, 2018, the 114th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition by Kathleen Thelen was held in Boston to address the latest scholarship in political science while exploring the 2018 theme, “Democracy and Its Discontents.”