The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) aims to educate the next generation of global citizens and leaders while advancing the Institute’s international research and education efforts. Anchored in the social sciences, CIS also works closely with MIT’s premier science and engineering researchers. CIS is a growing ecosystem that includes MIT’s prestigious Security Studies Program (SSP), a leader in security research and analysis that includes a new Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP), and the MIT Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), which has provided international teaching, research, and internship opportunities to thousands of students. Other priorities include research on democratic development, global diversity, emerging powers, and climate adaptation, education for national security leaders, and policy translation. We empower students, faculty, and scholars to bring MIT’s interdisciplinary style of research and scholarship to address complex global challenges.