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November 9th, 2012
Co-founder Drell receives Federation of American Scientists 2012 Public Service Award
CISAC Co-Founder Sidney Drell, a pioneer in the field of arms control, will receive the 2012 Public Service Award from the Federation of American Scientists. The award is given to an outstanding statesman or public interest advocate who has made a distinctive contribution to public policy at the intersection of science and national security. Read more »
November 8th, 2012
Predicting Kim Jong Un's next steps not as easy as our elections results
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on November 7, 2012Amy Zegart, CISAC faculty member, writes in Foreign Policy that national security threats can't be predicted as well as our election outcomes. Although data can be collected easily about ship locations and military movements, personalities and intentions are unpredictable. Read more »
November 1st, 2012
Cybersecurity Fellow Mayer exposes leaks of personal data by 2012 campaigns
Op-edCybersecurity Fellow Jonathan Mayer exposes how personal information is being leaked to third-party trackers on presidential campaign websites, despite official claims that tracking is anonymous. The campaigns are leaking names, addresses and partial e-mail addresses to third parties. Read more »
October 31st, 2012
Co-director Cuéllar named to endowed professorship at Stanford Law
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCISAC co-director Siegfried Hecker congratulates his co-director Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar on being named the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. The endowed professorship is named for the late Stanford constitutional law professor. Read more »
October 30th, 2012
Experts predict personalized bioweapons possible in the near future
Op-ed: Atlantic MagazineCISAC Affiliate Marc Goodman co-authors an article on how advances in biotechnology may be used in the near future to create personalized biological agents that target individuals based on their DNA. Read more »
October 29th, 2012
Ballots and Beijing: November 6 from China's perspective
CISAC, Shorenstein APARC, SCP NewsThomas Fingar, FSI’s Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, considers how the outcome of the election could impact U.S.-China relations, and how the United States could focus its priorities in Asia. Read more »
October 24th, 2012
Zegart: Why wasn't cybersecurity key in presidential debates?
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsAmy Zegart writes in Foreign Policy: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned of a looming "cyber Pearl Harbor" and the CIA calls Internet security one of the greatest threats against the nation. So why wasn't the issue brought up during the presdiential debates? Read more »
October 23rd, 2012
CISAC fellow Braut-Hegghammer: Don't Go All Baghdad on Tehran
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: Foreign AffairsMålfrid Braut-Hegghammer, a visiting associate professor and Stanton nuclear security junior faculty fellow at CISAC, writes in Foreign Affairs that the West's approach to Iran mirrors the way it once handled Iraq. Read more »
October 22nd, 2012
What have we learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis 50 years later?
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsWatch the annual Drell Lecture with distinguished panelists who discuss and debate the Cuban Missile Crisis from the perspectives of Moscow and Washington, and consider what history has taught us 50 years later. Read more »
Chestnut Greitens: Where was Asia in debate?
in the news: The New York Times on October 22, 2012CISAC honors graduate Sheena Chestnut Greitens writes in The New York Times that Asia was given short shrift in the foreign affairs debate between Obama and Romney. Read more »
October 18th, 2012
Hellman, Diffie inducted into Cyber Security Hall of Fame
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCISAC affiliated faculty member Martin Hellman and affiliate Whitfield Diffie are among the 11 inaugural inductees to the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame. Read more »
October 17th, 2012
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center, Shorenstein APARC NewsWith the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and explain what voters should listen for and what they need to keep in mind. Read more »
October 12th, 2012
1962 or 2012? Intelligence agencies still failing 50 years on
in the news: Foreign Policy on October 10, 2012CISAC Faculty Member Amy Zegart outlines how 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA and other intelligence agencies still operate in an organizational and psychological mindset that favors consensus and consistency. These "invisible pressures" led to intelligence failures in Cuba in 1962 and Iraq in 2002. Read more »
October 9th, 2012
CISAC names Stanford biosecurity expert as next co-director
CISAC, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsDr. David Relman, a Stanford microbiologist and professor of infectious diseases, has been named the next CISAC co-director. An adviser to the federal government on emerging biological threats, Relman's new role will strengthen CISAC's core mission of making the world a safer place. Read more »
October 8th, 2012
Crenshaw in FP: Who killed Christopher Stevens?
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsCISAC's Martha Crenshaw writes in Foreign Policy that the Obama administration has been criticized for an inconsistent and slow response to the deadly attack on the consulate in Libya. But the record suggests that hesitation may be more the norm than the exception. Read more »
October 7th, 2012
Eikenberry, Walder join American Academy of Arts and Sciences
CISAC, FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC NewsKarl Eikenberry and Andrew Walder were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, joining eight Stanford professors and a university trustee who were elected to the organization this year. Read more »
October 5th, 2012
Stanford-UN collaboration rethinks refugee communities
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsThe UNHCR has called on CISAC's security experts to collaborate on a project to better protect and support the more than 42 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide. The result is a multidisciplinary partnership across the Stanford campus and around the world. Read more »
October 3rd, 2012
Hecker: U.S. failure to ratify anti-testing treaty hurts nonproliferation globally
in the news: CTBTO Spectrum Magazine on September 19, 2012Siegfried S. Hecker, CISAC co-director and nonproliferation expert, writes in CTBTO Spectrum that the United States should take the lead in ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. Read more »
October 2nd, 2012
Zegart: Americans' support for harsh counterterrorism methods increasing
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on September 25, 2012In the face of a terrorist attack, one quarter of Americans said they would use nuclear weapons to stop terrorists. Read more »
September 21st, 2012
Understanding the evolution of China's modern military strategy
in the news: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 19, 2012CISAC Faculty Member John Lewis and Researcher Xue Litai published an article in the September/October 2012 issue of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists which examines the complex history of China's defense strategy. The two China scholars outline the forces that have shaped Beijing's conventional and nuclear military posture.
September 18th, 2012
CISAC, Hoover experts discuss U.S. diplomatic security in Libya
in the news: The Daily Beast on September 14, 2012CISAC Senior Fellow Martha Crenshaw and Hoover Institution National Security Affairs Fellow Brian Linvill spoke to Newsweek after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others. Linvill served as the embassy’s defense attaché from 2008 until June 2012 and said Stevens placed great importance on connecting with Libyans.
September 16th, 2012
Why U.S. national security needs the humanities and social sciences
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCISAC’s top security experts joined policy leaders on a national commission to analyze the importance of humanities and social science education for national security. Read more »
September 14th, 2012
Study in Nature suggests wind power could meet global energy needs
in the news: Nature Climate Change on September 9, 2012Former Perry Fellow Katherine Marvel and colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory published a major study challenging conventional ideas about the limits of wind power. Through simulations and models, they find that wind power could meet global energy needs but caution that growth will likely be determined by economic, political, or technical factors and not global geophysical limitations.
- » Geophysical limits to global wind power
- » Washington Post: Could wind power ever meet the world's energy needs?
Zegart: “Spytainment” blurs the lines between Hollywood and Washington
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on September 11, 2012CISAC affiliated faculty member and Foreign Policy blogger Amy Zegart explains how spy-themed entertainment has distorted perceptions about intelligence agencies. When government officials recruit Disney to help design the National Counterterrorism Center and a Supreme Court justice says the fictional 24 operative saved Los Angeles, these misperceptions influence intelligence policy in very real ways.
- » Foreign Policy: Langley Goes Hollywood
- » Zegart launches biweekly intelligence column at Foreign Policy
September 5th, 2012
Zegart launches biweekly intelligence column at Foreign Policy
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCISAC affiliated faculty member Amy Zegart has launched a biweekly intelligence column at www.foreignpolicy.com. The inaugural column examines the new book by an ex-Navy SEAL about the Osama bin Laden raid and the challenges of operating within our 20th century secrecy regime in the increasingly wired world of the 21st century. The column will run every other Wednesday. Read more »