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Former ambassador, political scientist McFaul to lead FSI
Michael McFaul, a Stanford political scientist and former U.S. ambassador to Russia, has been selected as the next director of the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
The announcement was made Wednesday by Stanford Provost John Etchemendy and Ann Arvin, the university’s vice provost and dean of research. McFaul will succeed Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who was nominated in July as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court and elected Tuesday.
McFaul takes the helm of FSI in January.
NSA director calls for partnership with Silicon Valley to combat cyber attacks
SCPKU holds International Diplomacy Lecture Series
CISAC at Forefront of a Nuclear Renaissance
Blackwater Convictions
Fingar challenges geopolitical myths about East Asia, calls for greater cooperation
Watch live stream of Intelligence Conference
Former NSA director defends surveillance programs
Former Pentagon official Ash Carter comes to Stanford
Hayden launches 'Security Conundrum' speaker series
Rules of War
CISAC tackles public health & policy questions on Ebola
Hecker wins NAE award for nuclear diplomacy
Stanford scholars on Obama's Middle East strategy
Rebuilding trust key to fighting Ebola in Africa
Karl Eikenberry: Afghanistan
Karl Eikenberry, a William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at CISAC, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Lt. General in the U.S.
Helping Ukraine is a US Imperative
In this Wall Street Journal commentary by William J. Perry and George P. Shultz, the Stanford scholars argue that Russia has completely ignored the Budapest Memorandums on Security Assurances of 1994. They say Russia has taken Crimea and is actively stirring trouble in the eastern part of that country, a blatant violation of solemn vows.
Soldiers build world’s largest conflict database
MANILA, Philippines – When Victor Corpus was an idealistic young military officer, he turned on his country to join the communist New People’s Army. He headed for the mountains and would face years of armed struggle, imprisonment and then a sentence to death.
Inaugural cyber boot camp brings congressional staffers to Silicon Valley
Two-dozen congressional staffers joined academic and Silicon Valley experts at Stanford’s inaugural cybersecurity boot camp to discuss ways to protect the government, the public and industry from cyber attacks, network crimes and breaches of personal privacy.
CISAC takes global security lessons online
The atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just before 18-year-old William J. Perry landed in Japan during the War of Occupation as a mapping specialist. He saw the devastation left behind by American firebombers on Tokyo and Okinawa.
The young man quickly understood the staggering magnitude of difference in the destruction caused by traditional firepower and these new atomic bombs. He would go on to devote his life to understanding, procuring and then trying to dismantle those weapons.
Stanford expert describes how the U.S. and China can manage their relationship and avoid conflict
The United States and China can peacefully co-exist if they avoid history's most dangerous geopolitical pitfalls, according to a Stanford expert.
The key is not to presume an inevitable conflict, said Karl Eikenberry, the William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a faculty member of the Shorenstein Asia–Pacific Research Center.
National Security in the Global Era
Thomas Fingar, the Oksenberg Rohlen distinguished fellow at FSI, delivered a speech entitled, "National Security in the Global Era," at the Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William & Mary. His remarks touch upon the broader scope of national security, consequences of globalization for national security, and implications for international education.
