Sub-Saharan Africa
April 9th, 2012
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsBill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world. FSI senior fellows Larry Diamond, Jeremy Weinstein, Paul Wise and Walter Falcon share their own ideas about how to secure the most fragile nations. Read more »
January 2nd, 2012
Political scientist maps militant groups
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsMartha Crenshaw is building a searchable, online map in an attempt to overcome one of the biggest challenges to tackling terrorism: understanding the motivations, allegiances, shifting priorities and organizational structures of the dozens of militant groups around the world. Read more »
December 12th, 2011
Why it's time for a serious conversation about nuclear weapons
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-edWriting in the San Francisco Chronicle, Benoît Pelopidas says we must review and debunk "three misguided ideas about nuclear weapons."
November 1st, 2011
Stanford's Weinstein reflects on shaping Obama's foreign policy
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CISAC in the newsAfter two years as President Barack Obama’s director for development and democracy at the National Security Council, Jeremy Weinstein is back at Stanford as an associate professor of political science. Read more »
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 »
August 1st, 2011
Dara K. Cohen: Why the numbers about sexual violence don't add up
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Foreign Affairs on August 1, 2011In Foreign Affairs, Dara K. Cohen and co-authors argue that protecting women in conflict zones from sexual violence requires a better understanding of the extent of the problem. Read more »
July 19th, 2011
Khalid Medani: What might happen next in Sudan?
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsIn January 2011, the people of the southern provinces of Sudan voted nearly unanimously to declare the independence of South Sudan from the North. But having failed to build unity out of diversity, Khalid Medani asks in a Journal of Democracy article whether Sudan will plunge into conflict or even a new round of civil war.



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