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November 8th, 2011
Tino Cuéllar: A discussion with U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: The Stanford Lawyer on October 28, 2011In a Q&A for Stanford Lawyer magazine, CISAC Co-Director Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar discusses with U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) immigration, national security, and how the Congressional panel on deficit reduction -- the "Super Committee" -- will address the country's long-term fiscal challenges. 
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November 1st, 2011
Stanford's Weinstein reflects on shaping Obama's foreign policy
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CISAC in the newsAfter two years as President Barack Obama’s director for development and democracy at the National Security Council, Jeremy Weinstein is back at Stanford as an associate professor of political science. Read more »
October 31st, 2011
On Stanford Radio, Scott Sagan selects the music of ethics and war
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsOn Stanford Radio, KZSU-FM, guest disc jockey and CISAC Senior Fellow Scott D. Sagan plays the songs of ethics and war, including Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers," Nena's "99 Red Balloons," and Randy Newman's "Political Science." CISAC is a sponsor of the university's year-long Ethics & War series.
October 28th, 2011
Rose Gottemoeller: "Arms Control in the Information Age"
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementThe technological revolution since the dawn of the nuclear age has had profound implications for national security. On Oct. 27, Rose Gottemoeller, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, discussed the challenges and opportunities posed by this transformation — and how it will drive the arms control agenda over the next century. Read more »
October 23rd, 2011
Charles Perrow: How technology can nudge climate change politics
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Bloomberg View on October 23, 2011Writing in Bloomberg View, Charles Perrow says U.S. investment in carbon capture and storage technology could "induce China and Europe to follow suit." This "would allow the world time for renewable-energy technologies to mature -- to the point where we could do away with coal burning altogether." Read more »
October 14th, 2011
Richard Rhodes: "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State"
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsIn the Washington Post, Richard Rhodes reviews "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State."
October 13th, 2011
How Mexico's criminal networks affect regional security
in the newsAs if the alleged Iranian plan to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. wasn’t strange and sinister enough, it offered an outlandish twist: American officials say the Iranian plotters wanted to hire a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the murder. As events unfold, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Beatriz Magaloni discuss the nature of the cartel threat. Read more »
October 12th, 2011
A newly released film tells the story of U.S. nuclear policy
FSI Stanford, CISAC AnnouncementThe National Security Archive recently released a history of U.S. nuclear policy featuring CISAC's Lynn Eden, David Holloway, and Scott Sagan. The 2005 film, produced by Sandia National Laboratories, covers the years 1945 to 2004. Read more »
October 11th, 2011
Co-Director honored for his contributions to reducing nuclear dangers
CISAC, FSI Stanford Press ReleaseCongratulations to CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker for winning the 2012 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. The selection committee cited "his leadership in developing international science and technology cooperation in areas critical to global security resulting in real reductions in the dangers of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism."
October 10th, 2011
Sheena Chestnut Greitens: What Steve Jobs taught me about failure
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-edWriting in Newsweek, 2005 CISAC honors program graduate Sheena Chestnut Greitens reflects on Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address and the hidden virtues of failure. Read more »
October 6th, 2011
Erica Chenoweth: A new book explains why non-violent resistance works
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementIn their new book, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, Visiting Scholar Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan argue that compared to violent insurgency, nonviolent resistance builds longer-lasting and more peaceful democracies. Read more »
October 4th, 2011
A new study looks at the economics of counterinsurgency
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementA new study finds that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, which focuses on working with local populations on small, community-based projects like digging wells or paving rural roads, has reduced violence. Researchers found no evidence, however, that larger projects had the same effect. Read more »
October 1st, 2011
A former CISAC fellow explores why regime change seldom works
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: Boston Review on October 1, 2011"Despite what interveners hope, regime change implemented by outsiders is not a force for stability," writes Alexander Downes in the Boston Review. In a companion piece, James Fearon says U.S. leaders know regime change is problematic "but they do it anyway." Read more »
September 29th, 2011
Reflections on Charles Perrow's 1984 classic
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: Nature on September 21, 2011As Japan attempts to move on from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a scholar of risk and risk perception reflects on Charles Perrow's classic book about why complex technologies fail, and raises the key question that Scott Sagan asked in his 1993 book, The Limits of Safety: "Are normal accidents inevitable?" Read more »
September 26th, 2011
Matthew Rojansky: For now, Putin's return is mostly good for U.S.-Russia relations
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: New York Times on September 26, 2011Former CISAC visiting scholar Matthew Rojansky argues in the New York Times that Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian presidency will not require a reset of the U.S. reset policy.
September 21st, 2011
Lessons learned after 10 years of war in Afghanistan
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementKarl Eikenberry has a unique perspective on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The former ambassador to Kabul, his 35-year career in the army includes an 18-month tour as commander of the U.S.-led coalition forces in the country. As the conflict hit the 10-year mark, Eikenberry discussed President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy, the challenge of working with Pakistan, and the problem of overpromising. Read more »
September 20th, 2011
Aaron Belkin: Lessons from the campaign to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementIn his new e-book former CISAC fellow Aaron Belkin "shares an insider's perspective on the strategies that he and others used to encourage" the kind of changes required to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Read more »
September 15th, 2011
Stanford's Michael McFaul nominated as new ambassador to Russia
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CISAC in the newsMichael McFaul, a Stanford political science professor, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Hoover Institution Bing Senior Fellow, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the next ambassador to Russia. If confirmed, McFaul, who has also served as FSI's deputy director and director of its Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, will succeed John Beyrle. Read more »
September 9th, 2011
Matthew Kroenig: Can terrorists be deterred?
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed"The deterrence approach that we advocated remains a poorly understood and underutilized element of U.S. counterterrorism strategy," write former CISAC fellow Matthew Kroenig and Barry Pavel in Foreign Policy. "It holds, however, great potential for helping to thwart future al Qaeda attacks." Read more »
September 7th, 2011
Amy Zegart: U.S. talk of defeating terrorism is dangerously premature
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on September 7, 2011In the Los Angeles Times, Amy Zegart explains why the fight against Al Qaeda "is nowhere close to being won, and America's most perilous times may lie ahead." Read more »
September 6th, 2011
Sept. 11: Are we safer 10 years later?
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementTen years after the terrorist attacks, five leading experts weigh in on the state of the jihadist movement, U.S. intelligence, and the cost of safety. Read more »
Karl Eikenberry joins Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
CISAC, FSI Stanford, CDDRL Press ReleaseThe Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University is pleased to welcome Karl Eikenberry as the 2011 Payne Distinguished Lecturer. Read more »
September 5th, 2011
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar becomes CISAC co-director
CISAC, FSI Stanford Press ReleaseOn September 1, 2011, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (MA ’96, PhD ’00), a lawyer, scholar, and former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations, assumed the position of co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). Read more »
September 3rd, 2011
CISAC welcomes its 2011-2012 fellows
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementThe Center for International Security and Cooperation is pleased to welcome the 14 fellows who will be joining us in residence during the 2011-2012 academic year. Read more »
September 2nd, 2011
A new book examines why Congress struggles to oversee intelligence
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementIn her new book, Eyes on Spies, Amy Zegart argues that electoral incentives and the zero-sum nature of committee power help explain why U.S. Congress has persistently tied its own hands in overseeing intelligence.
