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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 »
August 24th, 2011
As Tripoli falls, a political scientist says a difficult road lies ahead
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsAs events unfold in Tripoli, the world is asking what to expect next. James Fearon, a political scientist whose research focuses on political violence, ethnic conflict, and the impact of democracy on foreign policy, says a post-Gaddafi Libya looks like a vacuum in terms of civil society and competent state institutions -- and such vacuums, he says, "are usually very dangerous." Read more »
April 25th, 2011
Stephen Stedman: Why honest elections really matter
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsStanford's Stephen Stedman, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation, discusses democracy's surge and the growing need for elections with integrity. Stedman was recently named director of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security. Read more »
April 18th, 2011
Leonard Weiss: The U.S. may have hid Israel's nuclear test
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsCISAC's Leonard Weiss, a former staff director for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator John Glenn, provides a first-hand account.
March 23rd, 2011
Tarak Barkawi: Egypt and the globalized revolution
Op-ed: Al Jazeera on March 21, 2011"The question now is what kind of example will Egypt provide, to its Arab sisters and brothers, and to present and future struggles for justice, liberty and democracy the world over," writes former CISAC fellow Tarak Barkawi. 
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March 14th, 2011
Scott D. Sagan: What the world thinks of Obama's nuclear policy
Press ReleaseIn a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review, edited by CISAC's Scott Sagan and Harvard's Jane Vaynman, 13 prominent researchers from around the world examined foreign governments’ policy responses to the president's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, the landmark document published last April. Read more »
June 14th, 2010
Tenth class of honors students exhorted to be doers as well as scholars
in the newsThirteen members of the 2010 CISAC Honors Class in International Security Studies graduated on a balmy summer day June 11, joining 101 alumni of the popular program that marks its 10th anniversary this year. Read more »