MIT Center for International Studies

MIT Center for International Studies CIS aims to support and promote international research and education at MIT. Learn more at http://cis.mit.edu/

Whenever possible, we capitalize on MIT's great strengths in science and engineering, examining the international aspects of these fields as they relate to both policy and practice, and focusing on those issues where science and engineering intersect most closely with foreign affairs. CIS includes 160 members of the MIT faculty and staff, mainly drawn from the departments of political science and

urban studies, and visiting scholars from around the world. We sponsor formal programs, multidisciplinary working groups and numerous public events. While CIS does not offer teaching programs, the Center's faculty and staff engage with students as colleagues in research, audiences in public events, and enthusiastic participants in the MISTI international internship program. We also assist MIT students in obtaining external funds for international activities through the CIS fellowship database. CIS is one of several academic research centers founded in the aftermath of World War II. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in May 2002 with a symposium on past and future challenges.

Congratulations to the fourth cohort of Pathways@GDL students on completing their summer internship! Led by Noah Nathan ...
08/12/2026

Congratulations to the fourth cohort of Pathways@GDL students on completing their summer internship!

Led by Noah Nathan and Ariel White, associated faculty with the Center's Global Diversity Lab, participants conducted research assistant work while developing their own independent research projects, strengthened their research presentation skills, and exchanged ideas with each other and Department of Political Science faculty.

Pathways@GDL is funded by MIT Political Science and MIT Center for International Studies.

Read more about this summer's cohort here: https://polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/pathways-political-science-summer-research-program-hosts-fourth-cohort-interns

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Kathleen Thelen, Ford International Professor of MIT Political Science and faculty director of MIT-Scandinavia, MIT-Germ...
08/07/2026

Kathleen Thelen, Ford International Professor of MIT Political Science and faculty director of MIT-Scandinavia, MIT-Germany, and MIT-Switzerland, received the 2026 Gladys M Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association for “Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy."

Read here: https://politicalsciencenow.com/kathleen-thelen-receives-the-2026-gladys-m-kammerer-award-for-attention-shoppers-american-retail-capitalism-and-the-origins-of-the-amazon-economy/

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

The Gladys M. Kammerer Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy. Citation from the Award [...]

08/06/2026

MIT’s Wargaming Lab is seeking a Program Coordinator to provide operational and administrative support; coordinate events, meetings, and seminars for the MIT Security Studies Program Wargaming Lab; and provide day-to-day operational activities, working closely with the co-directors of the Lab, developing, implementing, and monitoring program and project plans.

Requirements
* Bachelor’s degree
* Minimum 2 years of events planning and/or program/project management
* Ability to learn and master financial systems

Details
* Full-time, hybrid
* Exempt
* Occasional evening, weekend, and travel required

Job description and application: https://ssp.news/wargames-job

Erik Lin-Greenberg, co-director of MIT Security Studies Program's Wargaming Lab, argues that ambiguity in US messaging a...
08/04/2026

Erik Lin-Greenberg, co-director of MIT Security Studies Program's Wargaming Lab, argues that ambiguity in US messaging and shifting policy have done more harm than good in the war with Iran, and that the Trump administration must clearly define its goals to help reach a truce.

Read more: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ambiguity-spiral-iran #

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences MIT Political Science

How Trump’s lack of clarity leads to escalation.

Evan Lieberman, director of CIS and Total Professor of MIT Political Science and Contemporary Africa, discusses the hist...
07/30/2026

Evan Lieberman, director of CIS and Total Professor of MIT Political Science and Contemporary Africa, discusses the history of rooibos tea in South Africa and argues that peaceful trade can strengthen political relationships.

Read here: https://globalcommons.substack.com/p/rooibos-tea-and-the-case-for-interdependence

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

I first tried rooibos tea while traveling to South Africa back in 1991.

Dafna Rand, the 2025–2026 Robert E Wilhelm Fellow, examines the challenges of ending wars fought by a US security partne...
07/28/2026

Dafna Rand, the 2025–2026 Robert E Wilhelm Fellow, examines the challenges of ending wars fought by a US security partner, as the United States and its partners often disagree on a shared end state and have diverging interests regarding security objectives, strategy, and operational design.

Read her research in The Brookings Institution here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-the-united-states-struggles-to-end-partners-wars/

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Dafna H. Rand examines why influencing a partner’s warfighting decisions has become so difficult for the U.S. over the past decade.

07/28/2026
Evan Lieberman, director of CIS and Total Professor of MIT Political Science and Contemporary Africa, discusses the need...
07/21/2026

Evan Lieberman, director of CIS and Total Professor of MIT Political Science and Contemporary Africa, discusses the need for social trust in classrooms in the age of AI.

Read here: https://globalcommons.substack.com/p/trust-policing-and-ai-in-the-classroom

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

The steady stream of news about widespread AI-related cheating on college campuses really gets me down.

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