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In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, Pierre Chao will examine 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 @AIAspeaks.
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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
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
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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
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
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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
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In early September, MIT’s Wargaming Lab hosted the 2026 Wargaming Workshop, bringing together scholars interested in the study and practice of wargaming. The projects drew on data from wargames, examined wargaming as a pedagogical tool, or explored the value and impact of wargames as an analytic method. This focused forum provided a venue to share new research and strengthen networks between scholars working in this growing area.
Thank you, to the workshop presenters and attendees, for participating in this exciting event.
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We are pleased to announce a new season of Wednesday Seminars! Kicking off on September 16, Stacie Goddard, Columbia University, will give an overview of an in-process book manuscript, “The Dynamics of Power Politics” (with Paul MacDonald and Daniel Nexon), which develops a relational-network approach to power political mobilization.
Wednesday Seminars are held from 12-1:30pm ET in E40-496 (1 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02142) and are open to the MIT community. Many of our seminars will be livestreamed and posted for later viewing.
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🗓️9/16 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
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