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March 2nd, 2010
Tom Fingar reports on earthquake from Santiago
in the news: Stanford News on March 1, 2010Tom Fingar, an alum and a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, was in the Chilean capital of Santiago when the Feb. 27 earthquake struck. Fingar, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, has spent winter quarter teaching Bing Overseas Studies Program students in Chile "Global Issues, Local Politics and American Foreign Policy" and "How to Analyze National Security Issues." Read more »
February 12th, 2010
Martha Crenshaw on 'The Consequences of Counterterrorism'
in the news: Russell Sage Foundation Press on February 1, 2010In this edited volume, Martha Crenshaw states that "citizens of democracies may be paying a high price for policies that do not protect them from danger." The book examines the political costs and challenges democratic governments face in confronting terrorism. 
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December 9th, 2009
CISAC's scholars awarded for invention of public key cryptography
in the newsDiffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle were awarded the 2010 Richard W. Hamming Medal "for the invention of public key cryptography and its application to secure communications." Read more »
April 6th, 2009
Top Canadian Prize Goes to Stanford Scientist Lucy Shapiro for Bringing Cell Biology into Three Dimensions
in the news: Business Wire on March 31, 2009CISAC Executive Committee member Lucy Shapiro, who is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of developmental biology at the School of Medicine, can add a Canada Gairdner International Award to her list of accolades. The award, which carries a $100,000 cash prize, will be announced on March 31, and formally presented in Canada in October.
November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
July 2nd, 2007
Former CISAC fellow wins Carnegie award to study Islamist militancy
in the news: McGill Reporter on May 3, 2007Khalid Medani, a former CISAC visiting professor and fellow, is one of 21 Carnegie Scholars selected to receive a two-year grant beginning this fall. Medani will receive $100,000 to support his study of Islamist militancy and recruitment in Egypt, Sudan, and Somalia. The grant will enable him to conduct further research on the topic he studied as a CISAC visiting professor in 2005-2006. Read more »