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March 2nd, 2009
NATO expert Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall named to national security posts
CISAC, FSI Stanford Press ReleaseElizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior research scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), has been named special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Read more »
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 »
November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
November 11th, 2008
Barack Obama's missile defense challenge
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on November 11, 2008President-elect Barack Obama's first major foreign policy test will be how to handle the issue of missile defense in Europe, CISAC's Pavel Podvig argues. Read more »
November 7th, 2008
Sarah Chayes discusses life in Taliban-resurgent Afghanistan
Award-winning journalist Sarah Chayes spoke at CISAC Nov. 5 about the realities of the so-called "war on terror" from inside Afghanistan. A day after Barack Obama was named president-elect, she expressed hope that the United States would re-engage constructively with its global partners. "For the last 10 years, the U.S. has [acted] more and more unilaterally, and has withdrawn from the world," she said. Read more »
September 15th, 2008
Russia rising: The Georgian crisis & U.S. foreign policy
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Commonweal Magazine on September 12, 2008David Holloway reports that the ongoing crisis in Georgia has catapulted relations with Russia to a top place on the foreign-policy agenda. It has presented the United States-and the West more generally with important policy decisions, and it has brought to a head a debate that has been taking place for many years about how to deal with Russia. Read more »
August 26th, 2008
Pavel Podvig: U.S.-Russian relations following Georgia conflict
Op-ed: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 25, 2008If there's a consensus about the confrontation between Russia and Georgia, writes CISAC's Pavel Podvig, it's that the conflict has seriously strained the relationship between Moscow and its Western counterparts--namely, the United States and NATO. Now that the worst of the conflict seems over, it appears that the harshest measures suggested in the first days of the conflict, i.e., expelling Russia from the G-8, won't materialize. Despite all of the disagreements and mistrust, each party seems to understand that severing ties between Russia and the West isn't realistic. Read more »