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May 26th, 2011

CISAC announces its 2011-2012 Undergraduate Honors Students

CISAC, FSI Stanford Announcement

CISAC announces its 2011-2012 Undergraduate Honors Students Read more »



June 17th, 2010

Interactive website tracing 'terrorist family trees' to be launched

By the end of the year, scholars of security studies will be able to use a new website to learn how terrorist and militant organizations evolve over time and how they collaborate with—and compete against—one another. Read more »



November 18th, 2009

Another 9/11-scale attack unlikely, but al-Qa'ida still threatens, Crenshaw says

CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news

Martha 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." +PDF+
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March 13th, 2009

Rehabilitation never tried at Gitmo: Some return to terrorism as hundreds are released

in the news: Washington Times on February 19, 2009

Max Abrahms, CISAC predoctoral fellow, discusses in The Washington Times what may happen to detainees released from Guantanamo detention facility. Read more »



July 2nd, 2007

Former CISAC fellow wins Carnegie award to study Islamist militancy

in the news: McGill Reporter on May 3, 2007

Khalid 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 »



March 14th, 2007

CISAC Drell Lecturer shares service members' views of Iraq war, combat readiness

in the news: Stanford Report on March 14, 2007

Delivering CISAC's Drell Lecture March 8, New York Times reporter Thom Shanker shared service members' views of the Iraq war and combat readiness. In a talk titled "The Wars on Three Fronts: Iraq, the Pentagon and Main Street," Shanker drew on Pentagon sources and comments from Iraq war veterans as he spoke to an audience of more than 200 people in the Tresidder Oak Lounge. +VIDEO+ +AUDIO+ Audio & Video transcripts available +PDF+ transcript available
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February 16th, 2005

Perry urges U.S. leadership in reducing nuclear terror threat

SIIS Senior Fellow William J. Perry warned that the United States is headed toward the "catastrophe" of terrorists using a nuclear bomb to attack an American city, unless the nation takes preventive measures. Speaking at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the former defense secretary urged U.S. leadership through its nuclear policy and expansion of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Read more »




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