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October 13th, 2011
How Mexico's criminal networks affect regional security
in the newsAs if the alleged Iranian plan to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. wasn’t strange and sinister enough, it offered an outlandish twist: American officials say the Iranian plotters wanted to hire a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the murder. As events unfold, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Beatriz Magaloni discuss the nature of the cartel threat. Read more »
November 18th, 2009
Another 9/11-scale attack unlikely, but al-Qa'ida still threatens, Crenshaw says
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsMartha 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." 
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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, 2009Max Abrahms, CISAC predoctoral fellow, discusses in The Washington Times what may happen to detainees released from Guantanamo detention facility. 
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February 11th, 2009
Dirty bombs. A coup. You're a diplomat. What do you do?
in the news: Stanford Report on February 11, 2009More than 100 Stanford students enrolled in International Security in a Changing World, taught by FSI director Coit Blacker and Martha Crenshaw, senior fellow at CISAC and FSI, confronted bomb scares and the overthrow of the Pakistani government during the course's annual mock exercise on nuclear arms control. 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 »
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 »