Is China Winning the Nuclear Arms Race?
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis provided insight into China’s recent nuclear-capable hypersonic missile test in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation podcast.
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The Case for Language Service Expert Visibility
In a recently published Multilingual article, student William Dan makes the case for language service expert recognition and visibility. Dan is a student in the MA in Translation and Localization Management program.
Iran Is Far From Close to Becoming a Nuclear Threshold State
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Avner Cohen refutes fatalist claims that Iran is close to achieving nuclear capability in a recent article for Haaretz.
Warning on Domestic Terrorism
Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, recently wrote a piece for the Washington Post warning that the next 9/11-scale event in the United States is likely to stem from domestic terrorism.
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The Power of Open-Source Intelligence
The Economist recently explored how open-source intelligence (OSINT) can challenge governments’ monopolies on information, with insight from Middlebury Institute professor Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The article is behind a paywall but you can watch a video interview we conducted with Jeffrey Lewis on OSINT.
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Virtual Reality Enhances Sea Level Rise Planning and Community Engagement
| by City of Santa Cruz
Researchers from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Lemann Center at Stanford University, in a partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the City of Santa Cruz, and Virtual Planet Technologies announced today the publication of a groundbreaking study about the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in sea level rise planning and community engagement. The study is part of the special issue of Water, a peer-reviewed journal on water science and technology, dedicated to “Adaptation to Coastal Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise” which will be released on May 13, 2021.
NBA Top Shot customers can't get their money out. Experts are confounded
| by WENY News
NBA Top Shot is the hottest NFT marketplace on the planet. It’s also got a big problem: customers are complaining about exceptionally long wait times to get paid from sales of digital tokens that can often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. “You don’t really know what something is truly worth,” cautioned Professor Moyara Ruehsen who oversees the Financial Crime Management program at the Middlebury Institute.
2021’s Greenest States
| by WalletHub
In order to highlight the greenest states and call out those doing a poor job of caring for the environment, WalletHub compared each of the 50 states on 25 key metrics. For more insight into eco-friendliness at the household, government, and global levels, they asked several questions to a panel of environmental and economic experts including Jason Scorse, program chair of the MA in International Environmental Policy and director of the Center for the Blue Economy. Please note that this article is only available in the U.S.
Compassionate Courage Challenges Systemic Racism
| by The Conversation
Dr. Pushpa Iyer writes in the Conversation about how compassionate courage moves beyond ‘cancel culture’ to challenge systemic racism—but it’s hard work.
QAnon’s Conspiracy Theories Stoked by China, Russia: Terrorism Expert
| by The Crime Report
Substantial “foreign influence” has been identified in posts containing material peddling conspiracies fostered by the QAnon movement, according to former U.S. counterterrorism official Professor Jason Blazakis.