South Korea
July 18th, 2012
A look back at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsKEDO’s profile on the North Korean landscape was unmistakable, its impact on Pyongyang profound. Yet real knowledge and understanding about the organization in public and official circles in South Korea, Japan, and the United States was terribly thin at the beginning, and remains so to this day. As a result, the lessons learned from KEDO's decade-long experience working with the North Koreans have been largely misunderstood. Read more »
April 13th, 2012
With humiliating failure of North Korea's rocket launch, observers believe nuclear test is next
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsAs North Korea celebrates 100th birthday anniversary of its revered founder Kim Il Sung amid the humiliating failure of its attempt to launch a satellite into orbit, CISAC experts believe a third underground nuclear test could be next in North's toolbox of provocation. Read more »
February 29th, 2012
Stanford’s Straub, Hecker explain North Korea’s plan to halt nuclear program
CISAC, FSI Stanford, Shorenstein APARC NewsIn an agreement with Washington, Pyongyang will allow nuclear inspectors into North Korea and also receive much-needed nutritional assistance to the impoverished country. David Straub and Siegfried Hecker discuss Pyongyang’s moratorium on nuclear testing. Read more »
September 6th, 2011
Karl Eikenberry joins Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
CISAC, FSI Stanford, CDDRL Press ReleaseThe Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University is pleased to welcome Karl Eikenberry as the 2011 Payne Distinguished Lecturer. Read more »
July 21st, 2011
Using data to fight political violence
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsJoseph Felter will join CISAC in September as a senior research scholar, bringing his expertise in counterinsurgency, special operations, terrorism and conflict to bear on research conducted alongside scholars from Stanford and other major universities across the country. Read more »
March 14th, 2011
Scott D. Sagan: What the world thinks of Obama's nuclear policy
Press ReleaseIn a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review, edited by CISAC's Scott Sagan and Harvard's Jane Vaynman, 13 prominent researchers from around the world examined foreign governments’ policy responses to the president's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, the landmark document published last April. Read more »
March 7th, 2011
William J. Perry: Why we need a new deterrence strategy
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on March 7, 2011Nations should move toward a strategy that does "not rely primarily on nuclear weapons or nuclear threats to maintain international peace and security," write CISAC's William J. Perry, George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Read more »



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