The spring 2008 issue of MIT International Review is now available. The journal is sponsored in part by CIS, and is MIT’s first interdisciplinary journal of international affairs. The cover story is “The Economics of Counterterrorism.” Also featured is a piece by Diane Davis, “Insecure and Secure Cities: Towards a Reclassification of World Cities in a Global Era.” Davis is co-director of the Center’s Jerusalem 2050 Program, professor of political sociology, and head of the International Development Group at MIT.

On Thursday, May 15, the Center’s MIT-Israel Program will host a send-off for students who will be traveling to Israel this summer. Rony Yediddia, Consul of Israel at the Consulate General of Israel to New England, will be the guest speaker. The event is open to the public and will commence with a falafel dinner at 6:30 p, in MIT Bldg E39, floor six conference room.

The CIS/IDG Working Group on Violent Conflict and Economic Institutions presents its second invitational speaker presentation: Diane Davis, professor of political sociology, and head of the International Development Group at MIT. Her talk, entitled "Insecure and Secure Cities: Towards a Reclassification of World Cities in a Global Era," will take place on Thursday, May 8, at 6:30p, in the DUSP Stella Room, MIT Bldg 7-338. Food will be served. The paper can be downloaded here.

Jim Walsh, a research associate at the Center’s Security Studies Program, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on April 24, 2008. Walsh addressed the status of Iran's nuclear activities and current U.S. policy. He argues that American policy is failing and offers alternatives. Read Walsh's draft testimony. Related is a recent article co-authored by Walsh, A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff, published in the New York Review of Books.