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March 13th, 2009
EU: On the bench in Pyongyang
in the news: ISN Security Watch (Zurich, Switzerland) on February 17, 2009Robert Carlin, CISAC visiting fellow, discusses the possibility of US-EU joint policy approaches on North Korea.
November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
July 29th, 2008
CISAC's Stedman convenes capstone 'Managing Global Insecurity' advisory group conference in Berlin, Germany
Heads of international organizations and foreign policy leaders from around the world met in Berlin, Germany on July 15 and 16 to discuss the future of international security and cooperation. Convened by the Managing Global Insecurity Project (MGI) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the event - "Responsible Sovereignty: International Cooperation for a Changed World" - was the MGI project's fifth and capstone advisory group conference. The goal of the Berlin session was to generate momentum toward a 2009-2010 campaign to expand global partnerships and rejuvenate international cooperation to address today's most pressing global challenges. Read more »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
January 4th, 2007
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2007An op-ed by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn and published in The Wall Street Journal outlines a vision of a world free of nuclear weapons together with specific steps that can reduce nuclear dangers. Read more »
January 1st, 2007
How to Keep the Bomb From Iran
Op-ed: Encina Columns Winter '07Preventing the unthinkable The ongoing crisis with Tehran is not the first time Washington has faced a hostile government attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Nor is it likely to be the last. Yet the reasoning of U.S. officials now struggling to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions is clouded by a kind of historical amnesia, which leads to both creeping fatalism about the United States' ability to keep Iran from getting the bomb and excessive optimism about the United States' ability to contain Iran if it does become a nuclear power. Read more »
August 7th, 2006
NSA misses big picture in phone monitoring, says CISAC fellow
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on July 9, 2006One of the National Security Agency's secrets, recently revealed, is that it's monitoring millions of phone calls, in an effort to determine who might be a terrorist. Legal or not, the spying program isn't worth violating our civil liberties for. The information gathered will hardly help win the war on terror. CISAC science fellow Jonathan Farley, a mathematician, explains why in this San Francisco Chronicle op-ed. Read more »