August 27th, 2009

Princeton's John Ikenberry reviews 'Power and Responsibility' in Foreign Affairs

In this major new treatise on twenty-first-century global security, Jones, Pascual, and Stedman -- all experienced policy thinkers -- provide a conceptual framework and comprehensive agenda for U.S. foreign policy in a world of security interdependence, writes G. John Ikenberry, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton.
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June 15th, 2009

A threat in every port

CISAC faculty member Lawrence Wein warns that "while President Obama's future vision of 'a world with no nuclear weapons' is certainly laudable, for the present America still needs to do everything it can to prevent a terrorist from detonating such a bomb on our soil." Read more »

May 28th, 2009

"Power and Responsibility" on Forum with Michael Krasny

Stephen Stedman, CISAC faculty member, and Bruce Jones, CISAC consulting professor were interviewed by Michael Krasny on KQED's Forum about their recently released book, "Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats." Read more »

April 24th, 2009

Power & Responsibility book featured on Charlie Rose show

Television interviewer Charlie Rose discussed the premise of "Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats," a book coauthored by CISAC's Stephen Stedman, during a broadcast on April 23, 2009. Co-author Carlos Pascual of the Brookings Institution and Brent Scowcroft, former U.S. national security adviser who wrote the book's foreword, were interviewed.

• » Charlie Rose interview with Carlos Pascual about "Power and Responsibility"

April 6th, 2009

Book offers new roadmap for tackling transnational threats

As fallout from accelerating climate change and the economic meltdown reveals, today's gravest threats are transnational, demanding unprecedented cooperation among competing nations to find lasting solutions. The policies and strategies developed for the balance-of-power rivalries of the 20th century no longer apply in this one, according to the authors of "Power & Responsibility," a book launched March 17 at Stanford.
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March 19th, 2009

Stedman, Jones, Pascual address Power and Responsibility in New Era of Transnational Threats

In their new book, Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats, Stedman, Jones, and Pascual seek to mobilize more effective international action on transnational security threats and build political support for revitalizing international institutions. This requires a new foundation for security of "responsible sovereignty" -- requiring nations to protect their own people and to cooperate across borders to safeguard common resources and tackle common threats.

• » Book Launch: Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats
  

September 6th, 2007

CISAC's George Bunn outlines steps to eliminate nuclear weapons

CISAC's George Bunn and colleague John Rhinelander, in a policy brief issued by the World Security Institute and the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, outline steps the United States would need to take in order to lead an international effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Following on recent proposals to revive the vision presented in an unprecedented dialogue between President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev at the October 1986 Reykjavik Summit, Bunn and Rhinelander, two former arms control negotiators, discuss how to realize the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.

• » Reykjavik Revisited: Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons