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November 3rd, 2009
Joan Rohlfing named president of Nuclear Threat Initiative
in the news: NTI on October 28, 2009Joan Rohlfing, a 1987-88 CISAC fellow, has served as NTI's senior vice president since the organization's founding in 1991. She will take over as president at the end of this year. From left, sociologist Lynn Eden, Rohlfing and astronaut Sally Ride from their days as CISAC fellows. Read more »
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. 
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October 21st, 2009
Martha Crenshaw awarded $500,000 to study terrorist patterns
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCrenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has received a National Science Foundation grant to identify patterns in the evolution of terrorist organizations. "Mapping Terrorist Organizations" will be the first worldwide study to analyze terrorist groups and trace their relationships over time. Read more »
October 16th, 2009
2009-10 CISAC fellows and visiting scholars
AnnouncementCISAC is pleased to announce fellows and visitors at the Center during the 2009-10 academic year. Read more »
July 22nd, 2009
Hillary, India and 'The New York Times'
Op-ed: Forbes on July 21, 2009Sumit Ganguly, a former CISAC fellow currently at CDDRL, criticizes a New York Times editorial on India's nonproliferation efforts in a op-ed in Forbes magazine. 
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April 6th, 2009
Book offers new roadmap for tackling transnational threats
As fallout from accelerating climate change and the economic meltdown reveals, today's gravest threats are transnational, demanding unprecedented cooperation among competing nations to find lasting solutions. The policies and strategies developed for the balance-of-power rivalries of the 20th century no longer apply in this one, according to the authors of "Power & Responsibility," a book launched March 17 at Stanford. 
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March 6th, 2009
CISAC's Hecker talks North Korea
in the news: Stanford Daily on March 6, 2009In an exclusive interview with The Stanford Daily, CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker spoke about his recent trip to North Korea. Read more »