Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology - Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

һ��'s home for Political Science and International Relations, CMIST is an interdisciplinary institute that works across һ�� to tackle the risks and benefits of emerging technologies in war and peace.

Academics

Tech & Policy

Washington Center

The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology or "CMIST" is a university-wide initiative dedicated to the wise development, use and governance of new and emerging technologies that are changing war and peace. The home for һ��’s study of Political Science and International Relations, CMIST is uniquely poised to take advantage of the university’s strengths in computer science and engineering, and its distinctive tradition of cross-university, cross-disciplinary research. Focused on questions of power and governance, CMIST builds new frameworks for managing global and national security challenges.

CMIST's Scientists & Strategists Speaker Series with Kate Zernike

CMIST's Lawfully Speaking: A Forum for Law & Ethics event with John Bellinger

CMIST cohosted event for the US Army War College International Fellows

CMIST's MITS graduate students present their Capstone Projects

һ�� Washington Semester Program students attending the PA Delegation event with CMIST Director, Audrey Kurth Cronin

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At CMIST we address the challenges of new and emerging technologies through a political science lens.

Recent Work

With Harry Krejsa

By Joshua A. Schwartz

By Daniel Silverman

War on the Rocks

By Michael Horowitz and Joshua Schwartz

Modern War Institute

By Haleigh Bartos, John Chin and Sydney Laite

Journal of Democracy

By John Chin

The Conversation

By John Chin and Joe Wright

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

By Justin Canfil

Foreign Affairs

By Audrey Kurth Cronin

Team of Teams

CMIST is a Team of Teams that works with cutting-edge һ�� research units, including the , , , , the Block Center, Dietrich College, , the Tepper School of Business, , and the Engineering and Public Policy program. And CMIST’s home for its vibrant political science graduate and undergraduate academic programs is the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Public Events

*Fall 2024 Events*
FALL 2024
Date	Event & Registration	Speaker(s)
Thurs, 9/12/2024	Lawfully Speaking - Promise and Peril: The Next Ten Years of National Security AI and its Regulation	The Honorable Judge James E. Baker
Thurs, 9/19/2024	Scientists & Strategists - Securing Tomorrow: U.S. Industrial Strategy, Security, and the Clean Energy Transition	Harry Krejsa and Costa Samaras
Wed, 9/25/2024	Conversations with Senior Leaders: Dr. Stacey A. Dixon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI)	Dr. Stacey A. Dixon and Audrey Kurth Cronin
Thurs, 9/26/2024	Digital Diplomacy: Building Solidarity in Cyberspace	Amb. Nathaniel Fick, Minister Paula Bogantes Zamora, Amb. Benedikt Wechsler
Fri, 9/27/2024		Ambassador Nathaniel C. Fick and Audrey Kurth Cronin
Thurs, 10/10/2024		Dr. T.X. Hammes and Dr. Jeff Schneider
Mon, 10/28/2024	һ�� Deeper Conversations - Cyber-Enabled Nation-State Influence Operations: Are Russia, China and Iran Interfering in the U.S. Election?	Panelists: Bret Schafer, Bryan Prior, Darren Linvill; Moderator: Audrey Kurth Cronin
Thurs, 11/21/2024	Technology, Law, and Democracy: Student Law Roundtable; 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (Refreshments served at 4:45 pm); Open to һ�� Students; Grand Room, Posner Hall (340), һ��	Prof. Harvey Rishikof

Other Events

Jan 29 CMIST Scientists & Strategists - Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence with Matthew Fuhrmann

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