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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 »
August 26th, 2009
Thomas Fingar assesses Iran's nuclear capability
in the news: National Public Radio on August 24, 2009Thomas Fingar is interviewed in a weeklong NPR series on the uncertainty surrounding Iran's nuclear capability. The audio interview can be downloaded from National Public Radio's website at www.npr.org.
- » NPR Aug 24: "Uncertainty Surrounds Iran's Nuclear Capability"
- » NPR Aug 25: "Could Deterrence Counter a Nuclear Iran?"
February 10th, 2009
Suicide bombers may await new U.S. troops
in the news: Leatherneck on January 23, 2009Max Abrahms, CISAC predoctoral fellow, was quoted in Leatherneck, an online publication of the U.S. Marine Corps, in an article about the rise of suicide bombings as the U.S. increased its troop presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more »
October 22nd, 2008
Documents detail Iranian training of Iraqi militias
in the news: Stanford Report on October 22, 2008Army terrorism expert Col. Joseph Felter, a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution, presented once-secret intelligence documents that summarize 28 interrogations of detainees captured in Iraq and provide detailed descriptions of Iranian-sponsored paramilitary training and aid to militants in Iraq during a talk at CISAC on October 9. Read more »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
December 12th, 2006
A crude awakening: Five FSI scholars talk to Stanford magazine about energy security
CISAC, CDDRL, FSI Stanford, PESD NewsMichael May, Michael McFaul, Scott Sagan, David Victor, and John Weyant talk to Stanford magazine for the November/December cover story on energy security. It's not our oil dependence that's the problem, say these scholars - it's our vulnerability to oil producers who use revenues for political purposes that work against our own. Read more »
August 28th, 2006
Iraq war has Bush Doctrine in tatters
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on August 27, 2006Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine--preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line--has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation. CISAC's David Holloway is quoted in this news analysis by Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more »