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Elections and electoral reform
November 8th, 2012
Predicting Kim Jong Un's next steps not as easy as our elections results
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on November 7, 2012Amy Zegart, CISAC faculty member, writes in Foreign Policy that national security threats can't be predicted as well as our election outcomes. Although data can be collected easily about ship locations and military movements, personalities and intentions are unpredictable. Read more »
May 4th, 2012
NSC Director of European Affairs says next French president should maintain commitment to NATO
in the news: AFP on April 26, 2012Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, former CISAC Senior Research Scholar and current National Security Council director of European affairs, says that the White House understands that France will maintain its full commitment to NATO after its presidential elections in June 2012, despite differing opinons from the candidates on troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
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 »
September 3rd, 2011
CISAC welcomes its 2011-2012 fellows
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementThe Center for International Security and Cooperation is pleased to welcome the 14 fellows who will be joining us in residence during the 2011-2012 academic year. 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 »
August 5th, 2011
Hein Goemans: Why do some leaders initiate crises?
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementIn a new book, Hein Goemans and co-author Giacomo Chiozza argue that leaders who "anticipate regular removal from office, through elections for example, have little to gain and much to lose from international conflict." But for leaders "who anticipate a forcible removal from office, such as through coup or revolution," it's the reverse. 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 »