FSI scholars produce research aimed at creating a safer world and examing the consequences of security policies on institutions and society. They look at longstanding issues including nuclear nonproliferation and the conflicts between countries like North and South Korea. But their research also examines new and emerging areas that transcend traditional borders – the drug war in Mexico and expanding terrorism networks. FSI researchers look at the changing methods of warfare with a focus on biosecurity and nuclear risk. They tackle cybersecurity with an eye toward privacy concerns and explore the implications of new actors like hackers.
Along with the changing face of conflict, terrorism and crime, FSI researchers study food security. They tackle the global problems of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation by generating knowledge and policy-relevant solutions.
The Center for International Security and Cooperation is pleased to announce the selection of 13 rising seniors for participation in its Undergraduate Honors Program in International Security Studies.
The program provides an opportunity for eligible students focusing on international security subjects in any field to earn an honors certificate.
Students selected intern with a security-related organization, attend the program's honors college in Washington, D.C. in September, participate in a year-long core seminar on international security research, and produce an honors thesis with policy implications.
Joshua Alvarez
International Relations, Minor in Economics
Identity and Security: Turkey's Grand Strategy in the Middle East
Keshia Bonner
International Relations, Minor in Economics
United States Policy Towards Hamas and Hezbollah as State Actors
Stephen Craig
Political Science
Security Issues and Domestic Constraints on European Integration
Noura Elfarra
Political Science
How does Regime Change and Revolution Affect the Secret Police?
Alison Epstein
International Relations
British and American Intelligence Cooperation: the Iraq Inquiry and the New Face of the Special Relationship
Peter Hong
Political Science
Recalibrating and Resolving Deficiencies in Multinational Nuclear Fuel Cycle Initiatives
Mohammad Islam
Electrical Engineering, Minor in International Relations
Domestic Terrorism Prevention Strategies in the US and UK
Suraya Omar
Materials Science and Engineering
North Korea's Ambitions for a Light Water Reactor
Clay Ramel
Science, Technology & Society – Energy Engineering Concentration
National Security Dimensions of Developing an Energy Secure United States
Nick Rosellini
International Relations, Minor in Economics & Modern Languages
The NATO Strategic Concept: Evolution of a Nuclear Posture 1957-2010
Ram Sachs
Earth Systems, Minor in Modern Languages
Environmental Dimensions of Security - Yemen and Violent Extremism
Jeffrey Sweet
Materials Science and Engineering
The Effect of Public Perceptions of Diseases such as HIV, H1N1, SARS, and Anthrax on the Effectiveness of Controlling Epidemics
Reagan Thompson
International Relations, Minor in Chinese
The Chinese Influence in Africa: Case Studies of Ghana and Angola
(Russian/Ukraine/USA, 2006; dir. Thomas Johnson; 93 min.)
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (*NEW TIME*)
Cubberly Auditorium
Free and open to the public
On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat exploded and began spewing radioactive smoke and gas. More than 40,000 residents in the immediate area were exposed to fallout a hundred times greater than that from the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Based on top-secret government documents that came to light only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1999, The Battle of Chernobyl reveals a systematic cover-up of the true scope of the disaster, including the possibility of a secondary explosion of the still-smoldering magma, whose radioactive clouds would have rendered Europe uninhabitable.
Co-sponsored by the School of Education, Crothers Global Citizenship, Stanford Continuing Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Stanford Film Society
For more information, visit the CREEES Event Website.
Cubberley Auditorium
not in residence
Hein Goemans received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1995 and currently serves as Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester in New York.
His book War and Punishment was published by Princeton University Press in 2000. Another book, Leaders and International Conflict, (co-authored with Giacomo Chiozza) is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Other publications have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Goemans is currently engaged in two research projects. The first extends the research in his first book on the causes of war termination and examines the role and incentives of leaders in international conflict initiation. His second research project explores when and why people become attached to specific pieces of territory that together constitute a "homeland," and the consequences of these attachments.
(Profile last updated in September 2011.)
