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March 2nd, 2009
NATO expert Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall named to national security posts
CISAC, FSI Stanford Press ReleaseElizabeth 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 and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Read more »
March 14th, 2007
CISAC Drell Lecturer shares service members' views of Iraq war, combat readiness
in the news: Stanford Report on March 14, 2007Delivering CISAC's Drell Lecture March 8, New York Times reporter Thom Shanker shared service members' views of the Iraq war and combat readiness. In a talk titled "The Wars on Three Fronts: Iraq, the Pentagon and Main Street," Shanker drew on Pentagon sources and comments from Iraq war veterans as he spoke to an audience of more than 200 people in the Tresidder Oak Lounge. 
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March 1st, 2007
New York Times correspondent to speak on war's 'three fronts'
Thom Shanker, national security and foreign policy correspondent for the New York Times, will give this year's Drell Lecture, titled "The Wars on Three Fronts: Iraq, the Pentagon, and Main Street," Mar. 8 at 4 p.m. in the Oak Lounge at Stanford University's Tresidder Memorial Union. The talk, hosted by CISAC, is free and open to the public. Audio & Video transcripts available transcript available
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April 10th, 2006
Civil war definition transcends politics
CISAC, CDDRL Op-ed: Washington Post on April 9, 2006Is the conflict in Iraq a civil war or not? Debate over this question is largely political. In this Washington Post op-ed, CISAC's James Fearon sets aside politics to explain the meaning of civil war and how it applies to Iraq. Read more »
February 28th, 2006
Iraq now - headed for civil war or already there?
Op-ed: Time magazine on February 26, 2006Is civil war likely to break out in Iraq? It already has, according to CISAC faculty member James D. Fearon, a political science professor who studies recent civil wars. "By any reasonable definition," Fearon said, "there has been a civil war in progress in Iraq at least since the Coalition Provisional Authority formally handed over authority to the Iraqis in 2004." Fearon is among four experts Time asked to comment on what's going on in Iraq. Read more »
December 9th, 2005
Iraq dominates debate at CISAC's Drell Lecture
in the news: Stanford Report on December 13, 2005The Iraq war has been waged with arrogance and confusion by the Bush Administration, the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir said after delivering CISAC's annual Drell Lecture Dec. 6. In his talk, "The Politics and Ethics of Nonproliferation," Hehir analyzed tensions between nuclear nonproliferation efforts and respect for state sovereignty. Afterward, questions from the audience focused on the Iraq war. Audio transcript available transcript available
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October 25th, 2004
CISAC faculty discuss U.S. election and foreign policy at packed homecoming forum
in the news: Stanford Report on October 27, 2004William J. Perry, CISAC co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, and SIIS Director Coit D. Blacker participated in a roundtable disucssion of U.S. foreign policy and the presidential candidates that filled the 1,710-seat Memorial Auditorium during Stanford's Reunion Homecoming Weekend. Read more »