December 12th, 2006

A crude awakening: Five FSI scholars talk to Stanford magazine about energy security

Michael 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 »

August 18th, 2006

CISAC researchers consulted on civil war causes

The commonplace assumption that a more homogeneous society is a more peaceful society certainly sounds reasonable. But a growing body of work suggests this thinking is false. CISAC civil war experts James D. Fearon and David Laitin came to a startling finding, in their sweeping 2003 study: "it appears not to be true that a greater degree of ethnic or religious diversity--or indeed any particular cultural demography--by itself makes a country more prone to civil war." Read more »

January 1st, 2005

University Scholars Play Prominent Role in Charting Reforms for United Nations

A new united nations report recommending the most sweeping reform in the institution's history offers a global vision of collective security for the 21st century that is as committed to development in poor nations as it is to prevention of nuclear terrorism in rich ones. Read more »