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John Lewis on keeping 'the genie in the bottle'
November 2010
With a Republican majority in the U.S.
Honors students explore challenges of policy implementation, assessment in Washington, D.C.
September 2010
In mid-September, honors students from the Interschool Honors Programs convened by FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and the Center for International Security and...
Honors students explore challenges of policy implementation, assessment in Washington, D.C.
September 2010
In September, honors students from FSI's two undergraduate honors programs - the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center for International Security and...
2010 Firestone Medal and Perry Prize recipients selected
May 2010
Stanford seniors Sam Stone and Ashley Lohmann have been awarded the Firestone Medal and Perry Prize, respectively, for their theses on energy import dependence and the Jihadist terrorist threat to...
Activating a North Korea policy
February 2010
It is routine in U.S. foreign policy for a pot not boiling over to be moved to the back burner.
CISAC to host nuclear security fellowships
December 2009
Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) has been invited to participate in a new nuclear security fellowship program funded by The Stanton Foundation.
Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe to be nominated US ambassador to UN Human Rights Council
November 2009
CISAC Affiliate Donahoe is to be nominated to a key post in Obama administration, the White House announced Nov. 9.
NATO expert Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall named to national security posts
March 2009
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior research scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), has been named special assistant to the president...
Russia expert appointed to national security posts
February 2009
Stanford political science Professor Michael McFaul has been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior director for...
Ends, Ways, and Means in Iraq: 10 Issues for the Obama Administration
November 2008
CISAC Honors Program alumnus Brian Burton and CISAC Predoctoral Fellow John Paul Schnapper-Casteras detail the top 10 issues President-elect Barack Obama must address.
Transitions 2009 conference to focus on action plan for President-elect Obama
November 2008
CISAC's Stephen Stedman, Bruce Jones from NYU and Carlos Pascual from the Brookings Institution will unveil a "plan for action" for President-elect Obama to tackle emerging transnational threats at...
Barack Obama's missile defense challenge
November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's first major foreign policy test will be how to handle the issue of missile defense in Europe, CISAC's Pavel Podvig argues.
Russia rising: The Georgian crisis & U.S. foreign policy
September 2008
David Holloway reports that the ongoing crisis in Georgia has catapulted relations with Russia to a top place on the foreign-policy agenda.
Book Review: The Gunslinger
July 2008
FSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review.
Preparation is key to avoiding 'worst-case outcome,' Chertoff says
April 2008
CISAC members Lynn Eden, Martha Crenshaw, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar participated in"Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution," a daylong event co-hosted by Stanford Law School....
Leading constitutional theorist discusses wars for 21st century
March 2008
Philip Bobbitt, a Columbia University law professor and one of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, spoke about his forthcoming book, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century, at...
CISAC awards 14 honors certificates in international security studies
June 2007
CISAC awarded honors certificates in international security studies to 14 undergraduates.
CISAC scholar leads newly endowed, expanded International Policy Studies program
February 2007
Starting next fall, Stanford's 25-year-old International Policy Studies (IPS) master's program will double in length and expand its interdisciplinary scope to train a new generation of graduates...
How to Keep the Bomb From Iran
January 2007
Preventing the unthinkable The ongoing crisis with Tehran is not the first time Washington has faced a hostile government attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Nor is it likely to be the last.
Real superpowers negotiate: Op-ed by CISAC honors graduate
December 2006
The Bush administration should set aside its "anything-but-Clinton" policy toward North Korea and move to end a dangerous stalemate with that country, write Professor Robert C.
"Misunderestimating" terrorism
December 2004
As the war on terrorism continues, statistics on terrorist attacks are becoming as important as the unemployment rate or the GDP. Yet the terrorism reports produced by the U.S.
Want to stop the nukes? Make nice
November 2004
"We've been down this road before: A crisis threatens global security, and the international community is not coming together to deal with it," writes Alan Isenberg in this Los Angeles Times op-ed....
How U.S. Should Take on Iran
November 2004
Michael A. McFaul and Abbas Milani show how encouraging democracy in Iran could help resolve the potential nuclear threat the country poses, in this San Jose Mercury News analysis.
