CISAC - News Page

News
Filter:
Ex: author name, topic, etc.
Ex: author name, topic, etc.
By Topic
By Region
By Type
By date

CISAC Fellow, Dipin Kaur, discusses how states recruit and deploy coethnic forces in counterinsurgency campaigns, and what those decisions reveal about ethnicity, loyalty, and state power.

Swiping the country’s uranium would require one of the largest raids in military history.

The US hopes that the war in Iran will end like the attack on Venezuela, according to expert Anja Manuel. But even after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this is not certain.

In the first of a new quarterly series of events, scholars from the Freeman Spogli Institute evaluated recent developments in world affairs, and offered an outlook for 2026.

Beijing, China
Commentary
Commentary

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty lapsed on February 5, 2026. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will seek a better agreement, and Washington wants to bring in China and limit all Russian nuclear warheads, not just the deployed strategic warheads captured by New START.

President Trump returned to the White House in 2025 claiming he would quickly end the Russia-Ukraine war. But the sides today remain far apart on key issues while the war rages on.

In this episode of The Negotiator Files, Rose Gottemoeller discusses her role as the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

CISAC Fellow, Elizabeth Good, reflects on women's descriptive representation in peace negotiations and what meaningful inclusion requires for peace processes.

On the World Class podcast, Michael McFaul officially hands the hosting baton over to FSI's new director, Colin Kahl, who makes the case for why alliances and partnerships — whether across academic departments or between nations — create better, stronger outcomes.

Rose joins the podcast to discuss her experience negotiating NST, how the United States and Russia managed gaps between treaty's in the past, and what she thinks should happen next.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in his end-of-the-year press conference that Western “promises that they had given us about refraining from expanding NATO were being ignored.”

“The action violated international law,” said Tom Dannenbaum, Frank Stanton professor of nuclear security.

"Serious legal objections to Maduro's regime do not eliminate the need for a legal basis to use military force in Venezuela," said Tom Dannenbaum, Frank Stanton professor of nuclear security.