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November 5th, 2010
Why the India-U.S. relationship is failing to live up to its potential
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on November 5, 2010As President Obama travels to India this week, CISAC Visiting Scholar Anja Manuel explores in Foreign Policy why the economic relationship between the United States and India is failing to live up to its potential. "On the surface, all the elements are in place for an economic love affair between the United States and India," she writes. "India's economy is growing at a very healthy 8 percent clip, and its democratic political system and rule of law, not to mention its widespread English fluency, should make it relatively easy for U.S. companies to sell into India and to invest there." So why do the numbers tell a different story?
September 24th, 2010
Honors students explore challenges of policy implementation, assessment in Washington, D.C.
CISAC, CDDRL, FSI Stanford NewsIn September, honors students from FSI's two undergraduate honors programs - the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) - traveled to Washington, D.C., with their faculty advisors for senior-level policy briefings with U.S. government officials and major international organizations, NGOs, and think tanks. A highlight was a meeting at the National Security Council with two leading Stanford foreign policy experts serving in the current administration: Michael McFaul, President Obama's senior advisor on Russia; and Jeremy Weinstein, Director for Democracy on the National Security Council Staff. Read more »
May 27th, 2010
CISAC's Steve Stedman and Bruce Jones host Hillary Clinton for national security strategy discussion
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsSecretary of State Clinton spoke at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. May 27 on the administration's first National Security Strategy, a report submitted to Congress by each President to outline the intended U.S. response to major national security concerns. The Managing Global Insecurity project, led by CISAC's Stephen Stedman and Bruce Jones, helped organize the event. Read more »
May 25th, 2010
Scott Sagan debates US Nuclear Declaratory Policy
in the newsThe Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a live debate May 25 between CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan and Keith Payne, CEO and president of the National Institute for Public Policy. CSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. Read more »
April 5th, 2010
Some Nukes
Op-ed: letters section of The New Yorker on April 5, 2010CISAC Affiliate Leonard Weiss responds to an article titled, 'Some Nukes,' by New Yorker Senior Editor Hendrik Hertzberg. Read more »
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. 
Audio & Video transcripts available
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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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