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CMIST NEWS
CMIST EVENTS
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Past Events
Fall 2025
| December | |
| December 18, 2025 | CMIST's Graduate Program Open House (Virtual) |
| December 4, 2025 | CMIST Faculty & Staff Holiday Celebration |
| November | |
| November 18, 2025 | with John Costello and Thomas Şerban von Davier |
| October | |
| October 29, 2025 | CMIST's Politics and Pie |
| Baruch Fischhoff's Book Launch - Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices | |
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Phi Betta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program with Prof. David Rabban - "Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm To First Amendment Right" |
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Telling Stories with Data with Jonathan Lai |
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| September | |
| September 30, 2025 | with General (Ret.) Laura Richardson and MInister Paula Bogantes Zamora |
| CMIST Professional Development Workshop with Prof. Haleigh Bartos | |
| September 26, 2025 |
MITS Alumni Roundtable |
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Scholarships & Awards Workshop for CMIST Students |
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| Washington Program Consortium Student Life Committee Fall Semester Kick-off | |
| 麻豆村's Military Community Reception | |
| 麻豆村/WSP Information Session for 麻豆村-Q Students | |
| September 4, 2025 | CMIST Welcome Back Breakfast |
| August | |
| August 29, 2025 | 麻豆村/WSP White House Tour |
| August 26, 2025 | with Brigadier General (Ret.) Greg Touhill and Mieke Eoyang |
| August 25, 2025 | 麻豆村/WSP Orientation |
| August 21, 2025 | CMIST Undergraduate Orientation |
| August 20, 2025 | CMIST Gateway Clipper Tour |
Spring 2025
| May | |
| May 9, 2025 | CMIST Diploma Ceremony |
| May 6, 2025 | CMIST Fellows Farewell Event |
| April | |
| April 17, 2025 | Deeper Conversations: America's Role in the World (麻豆村-hosted event) |
| April 10, 2025 | with Mahadev Satyanarayanan and Justin Fanelli |
| March | |
| March 27, 2025 | with Laura DeNardis |
| March 25, 2025 | Pi Sigma Alpha Initiation Ceremony for Spring 2025 Candidates |
| March 20, 2025 | CMIST's Politics & Pie |
| March 18, 2025 | Book Launch: Seeing Is Disbelieving by Daniel Silverman |
| March 13, 2025 | Lawfully Speaking - The Revolution in Military Affairs, Law, and the Future of Warfare with Renn Gade |
| February | |
| February 24, 2025 | Ukraine Three Years After the Russian Invasion: Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Office, CMIST and the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics) |
| February 20, 2025 | with Kori Schake |
| February 12, 2025 | 麻豆村 Washington Semester Program Info Session |
| February 11, 2025 | with Adam Segal |
| February 6, 2025 | |
| US Army War College International Fellows | |
| January | |
| January 29, 2025 | with Matthew Fuhrmann |
| January 24, 2025 | CMIST's Graduate Program Open House (Virtual) |
| January 16, 2025 | Leveraging Clean Energy for National Defense with Harry Krejsa |
| January 13, 2025 | |
| January 7, 2025 | |
Fall 2024
| December | |
| December 19, 2024 | CMIST's Graduate Program Open House (Virtual) |
| December 5, 2024 | CMIST Faculty & Staff Holiday Celebration |
| November | |
| November 21, 2024 | with Prof. Harvey Rishikof |
| October | |
| October 29, 2024 | CMIST's Politics and Pie |
| Deeper Conversations - Cyber-Enabled Nation-State Influence Operations: Are Russia, China and Iran Interfering in the U.S. Election? (麻豆村-hosted event) | |
| September | |
| September 27, 2024 | with Ambassador Nathaniel C. Fick and Audrey Kurth Cronin |
| Digital Diplomacy: Building Solidarity in Cyberspace with Ambassador Nathaniel Fick, Minister Paula Bogantes Zamora, Ambassador Benedikt Wechsler | |
| September 25, 2024 | |
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| MS STAIR AMP Graduate Program Informational Session for 麻豆村/WSP Students | |
| Lawfully Speaking - Promise and Peril: The Next Ten Years of National Security AI and its Regulation |
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| 麻豆村 Washington Semester Program Info Session | |
| September 5, 2024 | 麻豆村 Military Community Reception |
| August | |
| August 23, 2024 | 麻豆村/WSP Orientation Information Session |
| August 16, 2023 | |
Spring 2024
| May | |
| May 10, 2024 | CMIST Diploma Ceremony |
| April | |
| April 23, 2024 | |
| April 23, 2024 | AI Tools Workshop hosted by Bill Marcellino |
| April 17, 2024 | CMIST Fellow's Farewell |
| April 16, 2024 | |
| March | |
| March 28, 2024 | CMIST's Politics & Pie |
| March 27, 2024 | |
| March 26, 2024 | |
| March 22, 2024 | Lawfully Speaking: Who’s Afraid of International Law? Why the Senate is Approving Fewer Treaties with John B. Bellinger, III |
| February | |
| February 20, 2024 | |
| February 7, 2024 | US Army War College International Fellows |
| January | |
| January 23, 2024 | |
Fall 2023
| December | |
| December 12-14, 2023 | CMIST's AI Bootcamp for USCG Intel Professionals: Implications for National Security |
| CMIST Hosted Dietrich Holiday Party | |
| December 6, 2023 | CMIST Cookies & Cocoa Stress Relief Event |
| December 5, 2023 | CMIST Faculty & Staff Holiday Celebration |
| November | |
| November 15, 2023 | CMIST Military Affiliated Luncheon |
| October | |
| October 30, 2023 | CMIST's Politics and Pie |
| October 24, 2023 | CMIST Undergraduate Student Town Hall and Dinner |
| September | |
| September 20, 2023 | 麻豆村-PA Delegation Welcome Event |
| September 19, 2023 | Federal Resumes and USA Jobs Info Session |
| September 12, 2023 | CMIST Faculty Workshop on Generative AI with Vince Sha |
| August | |
| August 31, 2023 | Military Community Reception |
| August 30, 2023 | CMIST Welcome Back Breakfast |
| August 29, 2023 | MITS Alumni Roundtable |
| August 26, 2023 | Friedman Fellows Roundtable Event |
| August 25, 2023 | CMIST Student Gateway Clipper Sightseeing Cruise |
CMIST IN THE MEDIA
Featured Articles
The Baltimore Sun
By W. Ian Lipkin and Baruch Fischhoff
Asia Times
By Patrick M. Cronin
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By Joshua Schwartz and Paul Lendway
Small Wars Journal
By John Chin, Haleigh Bartos, and Aleksaundra Handrinos
The Conversation
By Thomas Şerban von Davier
Modern War Institute
By Haleigh Bartos and Sydney Laite
New Atlanticist
By Haleigh Bartos, John Chin, and Julien Derroitte
Breaking Defense
By Jamie Morgan
Previous Work:
2025
Morgan, Jamie. "Emerging Tech, Allies and the NPOR Flexibility We Need." Breaking Defense, December 16, 2025.
Chin, John Joseph. "." The Conversation, December 9, 2025.
Hall, Todd H., and Hannah Bailey. "." The Diplomat, December 6, 2025.
Chin, John Joseph. "." The Conversation, December 1, 2025.
Bartos, Haleigh, and John Chin. ".’" Atlantic Council, November 25, 2025.
Bailey, Hannah. "." Tech Policy Press, November 14, 2025.
Schwartz, Joshua A. "." Modern War Institute, November 6, 2025.
Chin John, and Julien Derroitte. "." The Loop, October 24, 2025.
Chin, John. "." The Conversastion, October 16, 2025.
Woloshin, Steven, and Baruch Fischhoff. "‘." The Washington Post, October 16, 2025.
Eoyang, Mieke. "." Defense One, September 29, 2025.
Cronin, Patrick. "." The Peninsula, September 15, 2025.
Chin, John, and Joe Wright. "." The Conversation, September 11, 2025.
Schwartz, Joshua. "." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 11, 2025.
Chin, John, and Joe Wright. "." The Conversation, September 8, 2025.
Cronin, Patrick. "." The Strategist, August 20, 2025.
Krejsa, Harry, and Sarah Hipel. "." The Washington Post, August 18, 2025.
Canfil, Justin Key. "." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 4, 2025.
Horowitz, Michael C., Lauren A. Kahn, and Joshua A. Schwartz. "." Foreign Affairs, July 4, 2025.
Cronin, Patrick. "." Korea On Point, July 4, 2025.
Cronin, Patrick M. and Chaesung Chun. "." Hudson Institute, June 18, 2025.
Chin, John and Justin Lee. "." The Loop, June 4, 2025.
Schwartz, Joshua. "." Responsible Statecraft, May 12, 2025.
Chin, John and Mary Urso. "?." The Loop, May 6, 2025.
Chin, John, Mirren Hibbert, and Staten Rector. "." The Review of Democracy, May 1, 2025.
Williams, Lauryn. "." Lawfare, April 22, 2025.
Krejsa, Harry and Mark Montgomery. "." RealClearEnergy, April 14, 2025.
Krejsa, Harry and Chris Barnard. "." Washington Examiner, April 8, 2025.
Schwartz, Joshua A., John Chin, and Haleigh Bartos. "." Lawfare, March 16, 2025.
Chin, John. "." The Diplomat, March 13, 2025.
Wright, Joe, and John Chin. "." The Conversation, March 11, 2025.
Chin, John, and Mirren Hibbert. "." The Loop, March 3, 2025.
Cronin, Patrick M. "." War on the Rocks, February 26, 2025.
Bartos, Haleigh, and John Chin. "." Modern War Institute, February 26, 2025.
Chin, John J. "." Journal of Democracy, February 6, 2025.
Chin, John, and Ellie Kim. "." The Loop, February 4, 2025.
Chin, John J. "." Journal of Democracy, January 30, 2025.
Chin, John, and Noel Overby. "." The Loop, January 22, 2025.
Cronin, Patrick. "." The National Interest, January 20, 2025.
Chin, John, and Anastasia Kim. "." The Loop, January 9, 2025.
2024
Chin, John, Mirren Hibbert, and Staten Rector. "" The Loop, December 18, 2024.
Horowitz, Michael, and Joshua Schwartz. "." War on the Rocks, December 18, 2024.
Bartos, Haleigh, John Chin, and Sydney Laite. "." Modern War Institute, December 10, 2024.
Chin, John J. "." Journal of Democracy, December 9, 2024.
Chin, John Joseph, and Joe Wright. "." The Conversation, December 5, 2024.
Canfil, Justin Key. "." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 22, 2024.
Chin, John, Haleigh Bartos, and Aleksaundra Handrinos. "." Journal of Democracy, October 31, 2024.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth. "" Foreign Affairs, October 19, 2024.
Arana, Ignacio. "." Latinoamérica21, October 14, 2024.
Blair, Christopher W., and Joshua A. Schwartz. "." Australian Outlook, October 1, 2024.
Bartos, Haleigh and John Chin. "." The National Interest, September 4, 2024.
Silverman, Daniel, Anna Pechenkina, Austin Knuppe, and Yehonatan Abramson. "." Foreign Affairs, August 28, 2024.
Kostyuk, Nadiya and Joshua A. Schwartz. "." Good Authority, August 16, 2024.
Schwartz, Joshua A. "." Lawfare, July 7, 2024.
Chin, John and Joseph Wright. "." Journal of Democracy, June 28, 2024.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth. "." Foreign Affairs, June 3, 2024.
Bartos, Haleigh, John Chin, and Tyler Ashner. "." War on the Rocks, April 30, 2024.
Schwartz, Joshua A. "." Modern War Institute, April 30, 2024.
Schwartz, Joshua A and Christopher Blair. "." Lawfare, March 17, 2024
Cronin, Patrick. "." The National Interest, February 1, 2024.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth. "" Foreign Affairs, January/February 2024.
Cronin, Patrick M. and Audrey Kurth Cronin, "" The National Interest, January 30, 2024.
Cronin, Patrick. "What to Make of Kim Jong Un’s Latest Threats of War." The Messenger,January 5, 2024.
2023
Bartos, Haleigh and John Chin. "What Israel Can Learn from U.S. Intelligence Failures." The National Interest, December 31, 2023.
Cronin, Patrick. "North Korea-Russia Cooperation Will Further Deteriorate World Order." The Messenger, December 15, 2023.
Silverman, Dan. "Decolonizing Israel-Palestine is a Dangerous Delusion." The National Interest, December 12, 2023.
Chin, John Joseph and Haleigh Bartos. "How New Reports Reveal Israeli Intelligence Underestimated Hamas and Other Key Weaknesses." The Conversation, December 7, 2023.
Spagat, Michael and Daniel Silverman. "Who and How Many People are Getting Killed in Gaza?" AOAV, November 1, 2023.
Bartos, Haleigh and John Chin. "What Went Wrong? Three Hypotheses on Israel's Massive Intelligence Failure." Modern War Institute, October 31, 2023.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth. "How Israel Can Win: Defeating Hamas Will Require a Strategy That Goes Beyond Revenge." Foreign Affairs Magazine, October 15, 2023.
Bartos, Haleigh and John Chin. "Biden's Africa Policy Trilemma." The Duck of Minerva, October 12, 2023.
Cronin, Patrick M. "Failure to Launch: The Problem With the Putin-Kim Strategy." The Messenger, September 15, 2023.
Fischhoff, Baruch, Steven Woloshin, Tamar Krishnamurti, and Barry Dewitt. "Patients might finally receive practical information with prescriptions — if the FDA doesn’t blow it." STAT, September 12, 2023.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth. "Open Source Technology and Public-Private Innovation Are the Key to Ukraine's Strategic Resilience." War on the Rocks, August 25, 2023.
Arana, Igancio and Carolina Guerrero. "Guatemala’s Elections Could Give the Presidency to Another Former First Lady." Latinoamérica21, August 19, 2023.
Cronin, Patrick M. "The Promise of Camp David: Trilateral Summit is a Watershed for Asian Security." The National Interest, August 16, 2023.
Cronin, Patrick M. "US soldier Travis King's Mad, Doomed Dash to North Korea." New York Post, July 19, 2023.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth. "United States and China are Taking Opposite Approaches to AI." Fox News, July 18, 2023.
Media Mentions
“The proximity of the two summits is designed to emphasise the importance the Lee administration places on relations with both countries,”
"The convergence of AI and modern energy infrastructure is evolving at unprecedented speed, demanding frameworks that can adapt as quickly as the technologies they govern,”
“The people are losing. Every time we gerrymader for partisan gain, voters are worse off.... A minus plus a minus is a bigger minus.”
Additional Media Mentions:
2025
- Jonathan Cervas via The Texas Tribune, , 11 December 2025
- Harry Krejsa via Tech Brew, , 3 December 2025
- Jonathan Cervas via ABC News, 30 November 2025
- Jonathan Cervas via The Associated Press, 19 November 2025
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via , 3 November 2025
- Troy Stangarone via The Wall Street Journal, 30 October 2025
- Jonathan Cervas via The Associated Press, 6 October 2025
- Troy Stangarone via The Straits Times, , 22 September 2025
- Ignacio Arana Araya via Latin America Reports, , 17 September 2025
- Harry Krejsa via The Washington Post, , 16 September 2025
- Troy Stangarone via The Straits Times, , 8 September 2025
- Jonathan Cervas via The Texas Tribune, , 21 August 2025.
- Harry Krejsa via The Guardian, , 12 August 2025.
- Jonathan Cervas via Salon, , 8 August 2025.
- Jonathan Cervas via The Hill, , 5 August 2025.
- Jonathan Cervas via New York Daily News, , 4 August 2025.
- Harry Krejsa via War on the Rocks, , 1 August 2025.
- Troy Stangarone via The Straits Times, , 31 July 2025
- Troy Stangarone via The Straits Times, , 27 July 2025
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Harry Krejsa via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, , 14 July 2025
- Daniel Silverman, via NPR, , 18 June 2025
- Lauryn Williams via Inside Cybersecurity, , 12 June 2025
- Troy Stangarone via The Straits Times, , 12 June 2025
- Baruch Fischhoff via Union of Concerned Scientists, , 27 May 2025
- Daniel Silverman, via The New York Times, , 17 May 2025
- Patrick M. Cronin, via The Chosun Daily, , 16 May 2025
- Lauryn Williams, via Inside Cybersecurity, , 23 April 2025
- Jonathan Cervas, via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, , 6 March 2025
- Ignacio Arana, via France 24, , 15 January 2025
- Joshua Schwartz, via Net Assessment, , 9 January 2025
- Molly Dunigan, via Business Insider, , 9 January 2025
2024
- Jonathan Cervas via FactCheck.org, , 16 December 2024
- Jonathan Cervas via The Washington Post, , 11/1/2024
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via The New York Times, , 10/25/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via Salon, , 10/23/2024
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Jonathan Cervas via Salon, , 10/19/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/6/2024
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, , 9/27/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,, 9/19/2024
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via Mirage, , 9/19/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via State Affairs, , 8/7/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via France24, , 6/29/2024
- Patrick M. Cronin via International Business Times, , 4/30/2024
- Daniel Silverman via Nautilus, , 4/23/2024
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via The Atlantic, , 3/26/2024
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via The New York Times, , 3/24/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via New York Daily News, , 2/16/2024
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via Just Security, , 2/13/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via Wisconsin Public Radio, , 2/1/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via Associated Press, , 2/1/2024
- Baruch Fischhoff via Pscyhology Today, , 1/3/2024
- Jonathan Cervas via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, , 1/2/2024
2023
- Daniel Silverman via The Canberra Times, , 12/10/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via El Pais, , 11/28/2023
- Jonathan Cervas via Mid Hudson News, , 11/19/2023
- Daniel Silverman via CBC News, , 11/18/2023
- Jonathan Cervas via Warwick Daily Dispatch, , 11/16/2023
- Jonathan Cervas via NY Daily News, , 11/15/2023
- Jonathan Cervas via Bloomberg Law, , 11/14/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via The Christian Science Monitor, , 11/13/2023
- Patrick M. Cronin via International Business Times, , 11/6/2023
- Patrick M. Cronin via Yonhap News Agency, , 11/3/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via Outside the Beltway, , 11/2/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via FLYING Magazine, , 10/30/2023
- Baruch Fischhoff via The Washington Post, , 10/24/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via Vox, , 10/20/2023
- Daniel Silverman via NPR, , 10/19/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via POLITICO, , 10/16/2023
- Audrey Kurth Cronin via FLYING Magazine, , 10/10/2023
- John Chin via DW, , 9/7/2023
- William Marcellino via WIRED, , 9/7/2023
- Jonathan Cervas via The Guardian, , 9/1/2023
- Jonathan Cervas via Pittsburgh Post Gazette, , 8/19/2023
- Baruch Fischhoff via NBC News, , 8/16/2023
Podcasts & Interviews
Bloomberg
Guest: Troy Stangarone
Here & Now Anytime
Podcast Guest: Jonathan Cervas
Front Burner
Podcast Guest: Joshua Schwartz
Cyber Focus
Podcast Guest: Harry Krejsa
More Interviews and Podcasts:
2025
- Defense & Aerospace Report - (weekly) with guest Patrick M. Cronin
- Global Dispatches - with guest Daniel Silverman
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Volts - with guest Harry Krejsa
2024 and prior
- Defense & Aerospace Report - (weekly) with guest Patrick M. Cronin
- Global Dispatches - with guest Daniel Silverman
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Volts - with guest Harry Krejsa
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Council on Foreign Relations - with guests Audrey Kurth Cronin, Tamir Hayman, and Robert Pape; Elise Labott
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Columbia Energy Exchange - with guest Harry Krejsa
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CNN - ? with guest Audrey Kurth Cronin
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World Affairs Council of New Hampshire Global in the Granite State Podcast - with guest Audrey Kurth Cronin
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The Foreign Affairs Interview - with guest Audrey Kurth Cronin
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The Science of Politics - with guest Jonathan Cervas
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Command and Control - with guest Rafael Lopez
