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August 16th, 2012
William J. Perry, former secretary of defense, favors Syrian "no-fly, no-drive zone"
in the news: LA Times on August 10, 2012As Syria's civil war intensifies, pressure is mounting on President Obama to do more to weaken the Assad regime and aid Syrian insurgents. William J. Perry, former secretary of defense and co-director of CISAC's Preventive Defense Project, believes there should be a "no-fly, no-drive zone" in northern Syria to protect civilians and rebels.
July 25th, 2012
Ambassador Donahoe: Open online communication necessary for human rights
in the newsEileen Chamberlain Donahoe, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council and former visiting scholar at CISAC, dropped by Ustream headquarters in San Francisco to launch its first live fireside chat series. Donahoe took questions via Twitter and discussed human rights and the UNHRC resolution supporting freedom of expression on the Internet.
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 »
September 10th, 2009
Released: Proceedings of the 2nd U.S.-Russian Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference
The second nuclear nonproliferation conference sponsored by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Russian Academy of Sciences was held in Moscow, March 18-20, 2009. Read more »
August 28th, 2009
2009 CISAC Zukerman Fellows announced
AnnouncementEmily Meierding and Michael Sulmeyer have been awarded Zukerman Fellowships for the 2009-10 academic year. The fellowships are awarded to "exceptionally promising young scholars" working in the field of security studies at CISAC. Read more »
May 27th, 2009
Siegfried Hecker discusses North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: Stanford Report on May 27, 2009Siegfried Hecker, Co-Director of FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation and Professor (Research) in Management Sciences and Engineering, has been to North Korea six times in recent years. Hecker, who has spent most of his career working on plutonium science, nuclear weapons policy, and nuclear security challenges, assesses the current risks from North Korea. Read more »
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 »