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Book Discussion -- The Dissent Channel: The Critical Role of Dissent in Building a Better Foreign Policy
September 24, 2020
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The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions
September 24, 2020
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An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order
September 17, 2020
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Islamic Humanitarian Law and Islamic Armed Groups
September 1, 2020
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Book Discussion: U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century
August 12, 2020
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Weapons of the Weak State: Contracts and Consent in Post-Conflict Statebuilding
May 29, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone. Livestream: Please click here to join the livestream webinar via Zoom or log-in with webinar ID 924 4971 4330. About the...
A Critical Analysis Of The Nuclear Waste Management Consequences For Small Modular Reactors
May 27, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/M7DEG62NsVQ About the Event: In recent years, small modular reactors (SMRs, i.e.
Anarchic Bargain: Power Trajectories and the Trade-off Motivating Order Formation
May 20, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Livestream: Please click here to join the livestream webinar via Zoom or log-in with webinar ID 913 4480 9317. About the...
Russia’s 2020 Energy Strategy: How the Kremlin’s Hydrocarbon Playbook Continues to Challenge Transatlantic Security
May 20, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recordings: https://youtu.be/fwiKw1WIeZo About the Event: If Russia’s 2020 energy activities have appeared chaotic,...
Seizing the Moment: America's Alliances and the Technology Race
May 15, 2020
This event is co-sponsored with the Cyber Policy Center and the Center for a New American Security.* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https:...
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race And Presidential Power From Truman To Trump
May 5, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/wV3Jvqri5Ds About the Event: Throughout America’s atomic history, the president has...
Which Militants Receive Missiles? Explaining How Organizational Similarities Influence External Provision of Support
April 27, 2020
Livestream: Please click here to join the livestream webinar via Zoom or log-in with webinar ID 944 5730 9104. About this Event: Why do some governments give foreign militants missiles that can...
Trustlessness: The Paradoxes of Cryptocurrency for International Security
April 23, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/cLeMYCUzXvE About this Event: This talk will offer an explanation for a contradiction in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies: similar tools and platforms...
CISAC Honors Program Presentations | Antigone Xenopoulos, Kelly Devens, and Jonah Martin Glick-Unterman
April 17, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/yh5HVfzLgy0 About this Event:Antigone Xenopoulos1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Introductions will start at 1:30pm.
CISAC Honors Program Presentations | Bryan Metzger, Andrew Lokay, and Adam Elliott
April 17, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/j9S_CKmku00 About this Event:Bryan Metzger1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Introductions will start at 1:30pm.
CISAC Honors Program Presentations | Ben Boston and Eva Frankel
April 17, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/vrUV4VtYZsE About this Event: Ben Boston1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Introductions will start at 1:30pm.
CISAC Honors Program Presentations | Sophia Boyer, Samantha Feuer, and Elena Crespo
April 17, 2020
Seminar Recording: /*-->*/ https://youtu.be/sQynE60SFTc About this Event:Sophia Boyer1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Introductions will start at 1:30pm.
Cyberspace Solarium Final Report
April 15, 2020
Seminar Recording: /*-->*/ https://youtu.be/FUlEJekANWY About this event: On March 11, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued its final report to the U.S. Congress.
Drivers of Russian Strategy
March 25, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/fPTpcgTKAdg About this Event: Russian decision making, though at times characterized as tactical or perhaps opportunistic, reflects a strategic consensus with a...
NATO at 70: Deterrence, Defense and Dialogue to Maintain the Peace
March 18, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/LqMutLWMTHo About this Event: When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, NATO was forced to reorient itself to its mission to deter and defend in a way that many...
CANCELED: Reorienting U.S. Policy toward Great Power Competition and Russia
March 2, 2020
CISAC will be canceling all public events and seminars until at least April 5th due to the ongoing developments associated with COVID-19.------------------------------------------------------------...
CANCELED: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East
February 24, 2020
CISAC will be canceling all public events and seminars until at least April 5th due to the ongoing developments associated with COVID-19.------------------------------------------------------------...
Countering Russian Cyber Operations: At the Boundaries of Conflict
February 18, 2020
This event is co-sponsored with the Project on Russian Power and Purpose in the 21st Century Seminar Recording: /*-->*/ https://youtu.be/5gWmnsTD0MA About this Event: Russia has deployed cyber...
Uncertainty, Risk, and Responsibility: Lessons from Three Technologies
February 18, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/wKXawdBrCEs About this Event: Are we still in the Nuclear Age? Is this the Age of AI? Are we entering the Age of Synthetic Biology?
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