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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 »
May 27th, 2010
CISAC's Steve Stedman and Bruce Jones host Hillary Clinton for national security strategy discussion
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsSecretary of State Clinton spoke at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. May 27 on the administration's first National Security Strategy, a report submitted to Congress by each President to outline the intended U.S. response to major national security concerns. The Managing Global Insecurity project, led by CISAC's Stephen Stedman and Bruce Jones, helped organize the event. Read more »
October 26th, 2009
Using intelligence to shape the future
CISAC, FSI Stanford News"We spend $45 billion annually to reduce uncertainty, to help us combat threats to our nation, our people, and our security," said Payne Distinguished Lecturer Thomas Fingar in his third Payne lecture, devoted to anticipating the future--"not for purposes of prediction but for purposes of shaping it." Noting that strategic intelligence treats the future neither as "inevitable or immutable," Fingar employed real-life examples from his career in national intelligence to explore concrete ways intelligence can be used to move developments in a more positive direction. 
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October 21st, 2009
Martha Crenshaw awarded $500,000 to study terrorist patterns
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCrenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has received a National Science Foundation grant to identify patterns in the evolution of terrorist organizations. "Mapping Terrorist Organizations" will be the first worldwide study to analyze terrorist groups and trace their relationships over time. Read more »
September 22nd, 2009
CISAC researchers influence Obama's decision on missile defense
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsPresident Obama scrapped his predecessor's proposed antiballistic missile shield in Eastern Europe on September 17, 2009 and ordered instead the development of a reconfigured system designed to shoot down short- and medium-range Iranian missiles. His decision relied heavily on research done at CISAC by David Holloway, Dean Wilkening, and Siegfried Hecker.
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November 18th, 2008
A Foreign Policy Quiz
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 2008A quiz by visiting assistant professor Alex Montgomery that tests readers' knowledge about foreign policy. Read more »
August 28th, 2006
Iraq war has Bush Doctrine in tatters
in the news: San Francisco Chronicle on August 27, 2006Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine--preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line--has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation. CISAC's David Holloway is quoted in this news analysis by Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more »