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January 18th, 2012
Stanford's Fingar examines China's development issues
Shorenstein APARC, CISAC, FSI Stanford, SCP in the news: YaleGlobal Online on January 18, 2012For the past two decades China has been a poster child of successful globalization. But its integration into the world economy and global trends drive and constrain Beijing's ability to manage growing social, economic and political challenges. In a YaleGlobal Online series article, Thomas Fingar looks at the global implications of China’s development challenges.
March 5th, 2010
Steve Coll Addresses "Globalization of Terror"
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars offered the 2010 Payne Lecture on March 4 at FSI, with a focus on Pakistan. President of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at the New Yorker, Coll also served as managing editor of the Washington Post and spent more than 20 years studying the geo-politics of Pakistan and the region. 
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October 26th, 2009
Using intelligence to shape the future
CISAC, FSI Stanford News"We spend $45 billion annually to reduce uncertainty, to help us combat threats to our nation, our people, and our security," said Payne Distinguished Lecturer Thomas Fingar in his third Payne lecture, devoted to anticipating the future--"not for purposes of prediction but for purposes of shaping it." Noting that strategic intelligence treats the future neither as "inevitable or immutable," Fingar employed real-life examples from his career in national intelligence to explore concrete ways intelligence can be used to move developments in a more positive direction. Audio & Video transcripts available 
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February 21st, 2007
CISAC scholar leads newly endowed, expanded International Policy Studies program
Press ReleaseStarting next fall, Stanford's 25-year-old International Policy Studies (IPS) master's program will double in length and expand its interdisciplinary scope to train a new generation of graduates prepared for careers in international policy-making and advocacy. The two-year program, led by CISAC scholar Stephen Stedman, is named in honor of Susan Ford Dorsey, president of the Sand Hill Foundation, who has made a gift of $7.5 million, which has been matched by university funds to create a $15 million endowment. Stedman, a senior fellow at FSI and CISAC, was asked to lead the program because he has experience in both academic and policy work. Read more »
February 16th, 2005
Perry urges U.S. leadership in reducing nuclear terror threat
SIIS Senior Fellow William J. Perry warned that the United States is headed toward the "catastrophe" of terrorists using a nuclear bomb to attack an American city, unless the nation takes preventive measures. Speaking at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the former defense secretary urged U.S. leadership through its nuclear policy and expansion of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Read more »
January 1st, 2005
University Scholars Play Prominent Role in Charting Reforms for United Nations
FSI Stanford, CISAC NewsA new united nations report recommending the most sweeping reform in the institution's history offers a global vision of collective security for the 21st century that is as committed to development in poor nations as it is to prevention of nuclear terrorism in rich ones. Read more »