October 23rd, 2011
Charles Perrow: How technology can nudge climate change politics
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Bloomberg View on October 23, 2011Writing in Bloomberg View, Charles Perrow says U.S. investment in carbon capture and storage technology could "induce China and Europe to follow suit." This "would allow the world time for renewable-energy technologies to mature -- to the point where we could do away with coal burning altogether." 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 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 »
March 5th, 2010
Steve Coll Addresses "Globalization of Terror"
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars offered the 2010 Payne Lecture on March 4 at FSI, with a focus on Pakistan. President of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at the New Yorker, Coll also served as managing editor of the Washington Post and spent more than 20 years studying the geo-politics of Pakistan and the region.
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February 5th, 2008
BP's chief scientist discusses secure, sustainable energy in Drell Lecture
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsSteven E. Koonin, chief scientist for BP in London, gave an address titled "Energy, Environment, Security: Can We Have It All?" at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, in the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center. The talk, free and open to the public, was this year's Drell Lecture, hosted by Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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