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April 9th, 2012
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsBill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world. FSI senior fellows Larry Diamond, Jeremy Weinstein, Paul Wise and Walter Falcon share their own ideas about how to secure the most fragile nations. Read more »
February 6th, 2012
Q&A: Stanford’s Cuéllar and US diplomat on human rights and the Internet
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsU.S. Ambassador Eileen Donahoe recently brought fellow diplomats to Stanford to meet with scholars, human rights activists, and Silicon Valley leaders to address questions engendered by a free and open Internet. She joins CISAC’s Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar for a discussion about the potential and challenges facing the online frontier. Read more »
January 17th, 2012
Cybersecurity talk draws business and political leaders to Stanford CISAC
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsStanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation brought together lawmakers and Silicon Valley industry leaders to discuss what President Obama has called "one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces": cyberattacks. Read more »
December 6th, 2011
Charles Perrow discusses the "inevitability of accidents"
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-edWriting in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, sociologist Charles Perrow argues that "some complex systems with catastrophic potential are just too dangerous to exist because they cannot be made safe, regardless of human effort." Perrow, a visiting professor at CISAC, is the author of the landmark 1984 book Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.
November 29th, 2011
Richard Rhodes chronicles the life of scientist and star Hedy Lamarr
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementIn his new book, Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores the life and times of the Hollywood celebrity whose inventions helped make GPS, Wi-Fi, and radio-guided torpedoes a reality. Rhodes, the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and more than 20 other books, is a CISAC affiliate. 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 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 »