Nazli Choucri

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Nazli Choucri
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University
American University in Cairo
AwardsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020

Myron Weiner Award, 2016

Dr.Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, 2005
Scientific career
Fields Political science Cybersecurity
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nazli Choucri is a professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1] Her main research focus is on International Relations and Cyberpolitics. She is the architect and Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), [2] an evolving and distributed knowledge networking and networking system centered on sustainability problems and solution strategies.

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Education

Nazli Choucri attended American University for four years where she received her B.A. with honors in 1962. She then joined the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, where she received both an M.A. and Ph.D. Her first academic appointment was as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies, Queen's University in Canada.

Career

Nazli Choucri joined MIT in 1969. She serves as Senior Faculty at the Center of International Studies (CIS), [3] and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Data, Science, and Society (IDSS). [4] She served as the associate director of the Technology and Development Program at MIT. [5] Her work focuses on the area of cyberpolitics and computational social sciences in international relations—exploring emergent state dynamics and interactions within in and across three overarching "spaces" of 21st century politics: (i) the traditional human geo-political arena, (ii) the natural environment, and (iii) the constructed domain of cyberspace. She focuses on sources of conflict and threats to security as well as strategies for sustainability and global accord.

Dr.Choucri theoretical focus is on the dynamics of transformation and change in international relations articulated in the Theory of Lateral Pressure [6] —introduced by Robert C. North. Lateral Pressure Theory seeks to explain the relationships between state characteristics and patterns of international behavior. The theory addresses the sources and consequences of transformation and change in international relations and provides a basis for analyzing potential feedback dynamics. [7]

She is the author and/or editor of twelve books, most recently Cyberpolitics in International Relations [8] (2012) and International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma, [9] with David D. Clark (2018) [10] and founding Editor of the MIT Press Series on GlobalEnvironmental Accord. [11]

Professor Choucri is also the architect and Director of the network related to  related knowledge and networking system Cyber International Relations (CyberIR@MIT), an  initiative rooted in the cyber-inclusive view of international relations introduced by the MIT-Harvard project on Explorations in Cyber International Relations [12] (ECIR), for which she was Principal Investigator. Later, she participated in the NSF Science of Security and Privacy Program of the Vanderbilt University, working as Principal Investigator of the research project on Analytics for Cybersecurity Policy of Cyber-Physical Systems. [13] [14]

She has served as General Editor of the International Political Science Review , and two terms on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review , [15] as well as on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, [16] also for two terms. She is a founding member of the Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) and is on the Board of the Boston Global Forum. [17]

Dr. Choucri was appointed as President of the Scientific Advisory Committee of UNESCO's Management of Social Transformation Program, where she completed two terms. [18] She is a member of the European Academy of Science. [19]

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  1. ↑ "Nazli Choucri | People | MIT Political Science". polisci.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  2. ↑ "U.S. Patent: #5752023 | Global System for Sustainable Development". gssd.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
  3. ↑ "Nazli Choucri | MIT Center for International Studies". cis.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
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  5. ↑ "MIT|TDP - Technology and Development Program - About TDP". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  6. ↑ "Defense Technical Information Center".
  7. ↑ Choucri, Nazli (2017-07-27), "The Theory of Lateral Pressure: Highlights of Quantification and Empirical Analysis", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.300, hdl: 1721.1/141739 , ISBN   978-0-19-022863-7 , retrieved 2024-06-27
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  9. ↑ "International Relations in the Cyber Age". MIT Press.
  10. ↑ "BOOKS | Nazli Choucri". nchoucri.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
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  13. ↑ Choucri, Nazli; Agarwal, Gaurav (14 November 2022). "Analytics for Cybersecurity Policy of Cyber-Physical Systems". hdl:1721.1/146916.
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  17. ↑ "Nazli Choucri | House of Honor" . Retrieved 2024-06-26.
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