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July 3rd, 2006
The U.S. and Turkey: Rebuilding a fractured alliance
Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on July 3, 2006Steven A. Cook and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall argue that Turkey is of enormous strategic importance to the United States and Europe, especially at a time when the widening chasm between the West and the Islamic world looms as the greatest foreign policy challenge. Yet Ankara's relations with Washington are strained - over Iraq, Cyprus, Syria, Iran and Hamas - and Turkey's prospects for joining the European Union remain uncertain. Read more »
April 10th, 2006
Civil war definition transcends politics
CISAC, CDDRL Op-ed: Washington Post on April 9, 2006Is the conflict in Iraq a civil war or not? Debate over this question is largely political. In this Washington Post op-ed, CISAC's James Fearon sets aside politics to explain the meaning of civil war and how it applies to Iraq. Read more »
February 28th, 2006
Iraq now - headed for civil war or already there?
Op-ed: Time magazine on February 26, 2006Is civil war likely to break out in Iraq? It already has, according to CISAC faculty member James D. Fearon, a political science professor who studies recent civil wars. "By any reasonable definition," Fearon said, "there has been a civil war in progress in Iraq at least since the Coalition Provisional Authority formally handed over authority to the Iraqis in 2004." Fearon is among four experts Time asked to comment on what's going on in Iraq. Read more »
March 14th, 2005
Study finds U.S. programs help promote peaceful work for Russian scientists
in the news: The Economist on March 4, 2005"America's attempt to find peaceful employment for the Soviet Union's weapons scientists seems to be working," reports The Economist, citing an International Security article due out this spring by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher and former CISAC Fellow Deborah Yarsike Ball. U.S.-funded programs seem to help discourage Russian scientists from taking their expertise to countries that seek to develop illicit chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs, according to a recent survey of scientists in the largest of the former Soviet republics. Ball presented the survey findings at CISAC's science seminar on Feb. 15. Read more »