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November 18th, 2009
Another 9/11-scale attack unlikely, but al-Qa'ida still threatens, Crenshaw says
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsMartha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, testified Thursday, November 19, before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment on the subject of "Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa'ida Threat to the Homeland." 
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October 21st, 2009
Martha Crenshaw awarded $500,000 to study terrorist patterns
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCrenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has received a National Science Foundation grant to identify patterns in the evolution of terrorist organizations. "Mapping Terrorist Organizations" will be the first worldwide study to analyze terrorist groups and trace their relationships over time. Read more »
July 16th, 2009
CISAC announces members of 2009-10 Honors Program
AnnouncementCISAC is pleased to announce that 14 seniors have been selected to participate in its Undergraduate Honors Program in International Security Studies. Read more »
February 10th, 2009
Obama swiftly lays Bush era to rest
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on January 25, 2009Allen Weiner, CISAC faculty member, was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the actions President Obama took during his first week in office to convey a single message: the Bush administration is over. 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 »
August 28th, 2006
Iraq war has Bush Doctrine in tatters
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on August 27, 2006Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine--preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line--has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation. CISAC's David Holloway is quoted in this news analysis by Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more »
June 1st, 2006
ElBaradei discusses future of nuclear energy and weapons
The nuclear nonproliferation regime is in serious need of repair, said Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in a lecture titled "The Nuclear Future" at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium. Describing the regime as "dysfunctional," he said, "Events in the last few years have made it clear that we need to change course." ElBaradei, who, with the IAEA, received the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke at FSI's Payne Lecture, with CISAC director Scott Sagan posing questions and moderating. 
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