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‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Secrecy, Security, and Oversight of Targeted Killing Operations
June 4, 2015
Abstract: Governments around the world have been targeting and killing individuals to prevent them from committing terror attacks or other atrocities.
Cold War Internationalism: The Case of Labor
April 15, 2014
Sandrine Kott was educated in France (Paris), Germany (Bielefeld and Berlin) and the USA (New York).
An Army Like No Other: The Origins of Military Culture
April 3, 2014
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Gil-li Vardi joined CISAC as a visiting scholar in December 2011.
The Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language
January 16, 2014
ABOUT THE TOPIC: Key human rights instruments and leading scholars argue that minority language rights should be treated as human rights, both because language is constitutive of an individual’s...
Can We Measure Shared Understandings? A Network-Based Approach to the Analysis of Culture
November 7, 2013
ABOUT THE TOPIC: Culture is often understood as a system of "shared understandings." But what does that mean?
Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium
October 18, 2012
David Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science and an affiliated faculty member at CISAC.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists' Choice between Domestic Attacks and Foreign Fighting
October 4, 2012
Thomas Hegghammer is the Zukerman fellow at CISAC for 2012-2013 and senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in Oslo.
Applications of Evolutionary Psychology to Deterrence
September 27, 2012
Rose McDermott is a Professor of Political Science at Brown University. McDermott received her Ph.D.(Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology) from Stanford.
Predictability of Human Behavior
April 30, 2012
Vast resources are devoted to predicting human behavior in domains such as economics, popular culture, and national security, but the quality of such predictions is usually poor.
Accomplishments of the Soviet Biological Warfare Program, 1928-1991, and Its Legacy
April 16, 2012
The book The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History by Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas is scheduled to be published on May 14, 2012 by Harvard University Press.
Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
April 12, 2012
Gil-li Vardi joined CISAC as a visiting scholar in December 2011.
"Proportionality in War" by Avishai Margalit
March 9, 2012
Avishai Margalit is one of the foremost thinkers and commentators on the contemporary human condition, the moral issues of our time, and current problems facing Western societies.
The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia
February 10, 2012
Priya Satia's research interests span modern British cultural and political history, colonialism and imperialism, the experience and practice of war, technology and culture, human rights and...
The Insider Threat: Preserving the Good of Powerful Science in a Dangerous World
December 5, 2011
Recent events in the U.S. have raised concerns about the safety and security of research with hazardous microbial agents, particularly with regard to the insider threat.
Mexico’s Fight for Security
November 18, 2011
Since 2006, more than 40,000 people in Mexico have died in drug-related homicides, and recent figures indicate that the pace and severity of drug-related violence is increasing.
From the Manhattan Project to the Cloud: Arms Control in the Information Age
October 27, 2011
Sixty-six years ago, a small group of scientists, policy makers and military leaders embarked upon a highly secretive project to build a nuclear bomb. It would change the world forever.
"Betrayed": Performance of George Packer's 2009 play
May 21, 2011
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq.
The Changing Face of Photojournalism, The Changing Face of War
October 29, 2010
Susie Linfield is author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (University of Chicago Press).
Automating Counterinsurgency
April 26, 2010
This is part of the Stanford seminar series on Science, Technology, and Society. Hugh GustersonBorn in the UK, Hugh Gusterson took a B.A.
Markets, Information, and the Spreading of Risks: The Economic Meltdown and Organizational Theory
April 1, 2010
AbstractSocial science interpretations of the meltdown emphasize system characteristics such as complexity and coupling, and/or culture as in neo-institutional theories. Examining regulatory...
Alienated Nations, Fractured States: Afghanistan and Pakistan
December 3, 2009
Presented by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies Sessions from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm open ONLY to Stanford Faculty and Students The 4:30 pm session is OPEN TO PUBLIC Stanford Faculty and Students...
Proliferating Markets: the Transnational Trade in Uranium from Africa
February 5, 2009
Gabrielle Hecht is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her first book, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT 1998), won...
Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making
November 20, 2008
Rose McDermott is a Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She holds a...