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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 »
May 26th, 2011
CISAC announces its 2011-2012 Undergraduate Honors Students
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementCISAC announces its 2011-2012 Undergraduate Honors Students Read more »
June 14th, 2010
Tenth class of honors students exhorted to be doers as well as scholars
in the newsThirteen members of the 2010 CISAC Honors Class in International Security Studies graduated on a balmy summer day June 11, joining 101 alumni of the popular program that marks its 10th anniversary this year. Read more »
November 18th, 2009
Another 9/11-scale attack unlikely, but al-Qa'ida still threatens, Crenshaw says
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsMartha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, testified Thursday, November 19, before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment on the subject of "Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa'ida Threat to the Homeland." 
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July 2nd, 2007
Former CISAC fellow wins Carnegie award to study Islamist militancy
in the news: McGill Reporter on May 3, 2007Khalid Medani, a former CISAC visiting professor and fellow, is one of 21 Carnegie Scholars selected to receive a two-year grant beginning this fall. Medani will receive $100,000 to support his study of Islamist militancy and recruitment in Egypt, Sudan, and Somalia. The grant will enable him to conduct further research on the topic he studied as a CISAC visiting professor in 2005-2006. Read more »
June 29th, 2006
How one school district found religion
Op-ed: USA Today on May 21, 2006Americans have never been in greater need of understanding religious differences and cultivating respect for religious freedom. The events of 9/11 transformed America's relationship with Muslims at home and abroad, and cultural conflicts between secularists and religious conservatives occur like clockwork. CISAC postdoctoral fellow Patrick Soren Roberts and colleague Emile Lester found that a required world religion course for ninth-graders in Modesto, Calif. has helped foster understanding among the town's religiously diverse population. Read more »
May 30th, 2006
Domestic spying turns homeland into battlefield, warns CISAC scholar
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on May 18, 2006The National Security Agency's collection of U.S. citizens' phone records is the latest evidence of a shift in the way the government uses military assets, writes CISAC fellow Laura Donohue in the Los Angeles Times. In the war on terror, the United States has become a military theater of operations. At stake, Donohue adds, is the long-held "principle, embedded in the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, that the U.S. military not be used for domestic law enforcement." Read more »



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