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March 30th, 2012
Eikenberry, Manuel speak at WorldAffairs 2012 Conference
CISAC, CDDRL, FSI Stanford in the newsFSI's Karl Eikenberry and CISAC's Anja Manuel launched the WorldAffairs 2012 Conference on March 30, in a panel on South Asia. The panel, titled "The End of War in Afghanistan: A Turning Point in US Foreign Policy" featured Eikenberry as a keynote speaker and was moderated by Manuel. A video of the talk is available. Read more »
March 15th, 2012
Senior research scholar Joseph Felter tells NBC Bay Area U.S. military must stay the course in Afghanistan
in the news: NBC News Bay Area on March 12, 2012CISAC's senior research scholar Joseph Felter tells NBC Bay Area that U.S. military must stay the course in Afghanistan despite killings of Afghan civilians by an American solider. Click "read more" to watch the interview. Read more »
March 14th, 2012
Siegfried Hecker provides testimony to Congress on governance of nuclear security
in the newsSiegfried Hecker provides testimony to the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Arms Services Committee of the House on governance, oversight and management of the nation's nuclear security enterprise. Hecker says the current system of management is no longer "deliberate, innovative and successful," due primarily to the demands of Congress for greater accountability.
March 12th, 2012
Stanford experts look at lessons learned from Japan crisis
in the newsMarch 11 marked the one-year anniversary of Japan's 9.0 earthquake and the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. CISAC's experts examine what Japan and the world have learned from these catastrophic events.
- » Ed Blandford: The events at Fukushima Daiichi were due to a series of failures
- » Rodney Ewing: We need to know more about what happens when hot seawater hits nuclear fuel
March 5th, 2012
OpEd: Former Stanford honors student calls North Korea's new leader a "Corleone"
Op-ed: The New York Times on March 4, 2012Former CISAC honors student Sheena Chestnut Greitens writes in an OpEd in The New York Times that North Korea's young new leader is a "Corleone" who now must be both head of state and mafia don. Chestnut Greitens' piece builds on her honors thesis about the state-sanctioned crime syndicate that permeates society in the isolated country.
February 6th, 2012
Q&A: Stanford’s Cuéllar and US diplomat on human rights and the Internet
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsU.S. Ambassador Eileen Donahoe recently brought fellow diplomats to Stanford to meet with scholars, human rights activists, and Silicon Valley leaders to address questions engendered by a free and open Internet. She joins CISAC’s Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar for a discussion about the potential and challenges facing the online frontier. Read more »
January 17th, 2012
Cybersecurity talk draws business and political leaders to Stanford CISAC
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsStanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation brought together lawmakers and Silicon Valley industry leaders to discuss what President Obama has called "one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces": cyberattacks. Read more »