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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 »
September 15th, 2008
Russia rising: The Georgian crisis & U.S. foreign policy
CISAC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Commonweal Magazine on September 12, 2008David Holloway reports that the ongoing crisis in Georgia has catapulted relations with Russia to a top place on the foreign-policy agenda. It has presented the United States-and the West more generally with important policy decisions, and it has brought to a head a debate that has been taking place for many years about how to deal with Russia. Read more »
December 12th, 2006
A crude awakening: Five FSI scholars talk to Stanford magazine about energy security
CISAC, CDDRL, FSI Stanford, PESD NewsMichael 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 »
November 27th, 2006
Award supports CISAC scholar's study of Chernobyl disaster and nuclear decision-making
Sonja Schmid, a CISAC social science research associate and lecturer in Stanford's Program on Science, Technology and Society, has won the Society for the History of Technology's 2006 Brooke Hindle Fellowship. Schmid accepted the $10,000 award at the society's annual conference on Oct. 14. She will use it to support additional research in Russia for a book she is completing on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Soviet and Russian nuclear power industry. 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 »
February 16th, 2005
Perry urges U.S. leadership in reducing nuclear terror threat
SIIS Senior Fellow William J. Perry warned that the United States is headed toward the "catastrophe" of terrorists using a nuclear bomb to attack an American city, unless the nation takes preventive measures. Speaking at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the former defense secretary urged U.S. leadership through its nuclear policy and expansion of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Read more »
October 25th, 2004
CISAC faculty discuss U.S. election and foreign policy at packed homecoming forum
in the news: Stanford Report on October 27, 2004William J. Perry, CISAC co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, and SIIS Director Coit D. Blacker participated in a roundtable disucssion of U.S. foreign policy and the presidential candidates that filled the 1,710-seat Memorial Auditorium during Stanford's Reunion Homecoming Weekend. Read more »