May 13th, 2010

CISAC welcomes 2010-2011 fellows

Thirteen fellows, including three first-time Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows, will be in residence at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) during the 2010-2011 academic year. Read more »

March 16th, 2009

Ex-Defense chief met with Tehran aide

This is one of two recent articles about the track-two work of William Perry, former Secretary of Defense and co-director of CISAC's Preventive Defense Project. Read more »

December 12th, 2008

India: Pakistan must sustain resolve

CISAC's Paul Kapur is quoted in this article about Pakistan's agreement Tuesday to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa -- a charity considered a front for the militant group tied to the Mumbai attacks -- if the United Nations requests it. Read more »

November 7th, 2008

Sarah Chayes discusses life in Taliban-resurgent Afghanistan

Award-winning journalist Sarah Chayes spoke at CISAC Nov. 5 about the realities of the so-called "war on terror" from inside Afghanistan. A day after Barack Obama was named president-elect, she expressed hope that the United States would re-engage constructively with its global partners. "For the last 10 years, the U.S. has [acted] more and more unilaterally, and has withdrawn from the world," she said. Read more »

February 16th, 2007

Perry, Diamond, Fearon argue against more troops in Iraq

William J. Perry, former secretary of defense and Iraq Study Group member, was joined by Larry Diamond, former Coalition Provisional Authority advisor, and James Fearon, professor of political science at Stanford, for a Jan. 22 panel discussion on "Iraq: The Way Forward." In the discussion, which took place at FSI, Perry, Diamond, and Fearon all argued against sending more troops to Iraq, with Perry noting that the "cumulative effect of all these strategic errors has been a disastrous security situation." Audio transcript available
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December 13th, 2006

CISAC civil war experts influence policy debate on Iraq

November's mid-term elections, in which Democrats won a majority in both houses of congress, were widely interpreted as a referendum on the administration's prosecution of the Iraq war. As public debate intensified over an anticipated change of course in Iraq, policymakers, commentators, and reporters turned to CISAC civil war experts James Fearon and David Laitin for insight into the current violence and possible outcomes. News media drew on Fearon's testimony before a house subcommittee in September, echoing his warning about the likely failure of an attempt to partition the country's land or resources among Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. Some news organizations announced a new policy to call the fighting in Iraq a civil war, citing the opinions of Fearon and Laitin. Laitin appeared on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to discuss the question of whehter Iraq is engaged in a civil war. Fearon discussed the question on NPR's On Point.

• » Iraq: Democracy or Civil War?
• » NPR's On Point: "The civil war in Iraq"
• » CNN's Situation Room: "Civil war in Iraq?"
• » New York Times magazine: "The way we live now: Iraq 2013"

December 8th, 2006

Iraq Study Group advises troop pullback, Mideast diplomacy; CISAC's Perry on panel

The Iraq Study Group--on which William Perry, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC, served as a member--released its report, advising a withdrawal of U.S. troops and negotiations with Iran, Syria, and other Middle East nations to make the best of a rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq. Perry advocated a timeline for troop withdrawal and persuaded colleagues on the bipartisan panel to recommend clear goals for pulling out of Iraq, David E. Sanger reported in the New York Times.
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