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April 28th, 2010
Scott Sagan's essay on 'Shared Responsibilities for Nuclear Disarmament' fosters global debate on eve of NPT review conference
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has published a paper with seven essays from leading scholars invited to respond to Scott Sagan's concluding essay in the Fall 2009 special issue of Daedalus on the global nuclear future. The paper includes Scott's original essay and responses by James M. Acton, Jayantha Dhanapala, Mustafa Kibaroglu, Harald Muller, Yukio Satoh, Mohamed I. Shaker and Achilles Zaluar. 
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February 26th, 2010
Alexander B. Downes, former CISAC fellow, awarded Lepgold Book Prize
in the newsDownes, an assistant professor of political science at Duke, has won the annual prize for his book, "Targeting Civilians in War," which is based on his dissertation that he completed at CISAC in 2003-04. 
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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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January 12th, 2010
Houston, We Have a Problem
in the news: New York Times on January 10, 2010CISAC's David Holloway has written a review of Wayne Biddle's book, "Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race," in the New York Times. It is a deeply skeptical account of the early life and career of Wernher von Braun, who played a key role in the World War II-era German rocket program. 
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November 2nd, 2009
'The Global Nuclear Future' -- special edition of Daedalus journal
CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan and Steve Miller of Harvard's Belfer Center have jointly edited a special two-volume issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, on "The Global Nuclear Future." Read more »
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 »
March 16th, 2009
Ex-Defense chief met with Tehran aide
in the news: The Washington Times on January 30, 2009This 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 »