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January 2nd, 2012
Political scientist maps militant groups
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsMartha Crenshaw is building a searchable, online map in an attempt to overcome one of the biggest challenges to tackling terrorism: understanding the motivations, allegiances, shifting priorities and organizational structures of the dozens of militant groups around the world. Read more »
July 21st, 2011
Using data to fight political violence
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsJoseph Felter will join CISAC in September as a senior research scholar, bringing his expertise in counterinsurgency, special operations, terrorism and conflict to bear on research conducted alongside scholars from Stanford and other major universities across the country. 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 »
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 26th, 2010
2010 Firestone Medal and Perry Prize recipients selected
Stanford seniors Sam Stone and Ashley Lohmann have been awarded the Firestone Medal and Perry Prize, respectively, for their theses on energy import dependence and the Jihadist terrorist threat to the United States since 9/11. 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 »
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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