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February 26th, 2010
Alexander B. Downes, former CISAC fellow, awarded Lepgold Book Prize
in the newsDownes, an assistant professor of political science at Duke, has won the annual prize for his book, "Targeting Civilians in War," which is based on his dissertation that he completed at CISAC in 2003-04. 
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February 12th, 2010
Martha Crenshaw on 'The Consequences of Counterterrorism'
in the news: Russell Sage Foundation Press on February 1, 2010In this edited volume, Martha Crenshaw states that "citizens of democracies may be paying a high price for policies that do not protect them from danger." The book examines the political costs and challenges democratic governments face in confronting terrorism.
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January 27th, 2010
Preventing Armageddon: Drell Lecture examines the road to nuclear arms elimination
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news: Stanford Report on January 26, 2010The 2010 Drell Lecture brought together two outspoken advocates of nuclear nonproliferation - former Secretary of State George Shultz and theoretical physicist Sidney Drell - in a conversation with former New York Times journalist Philip Taubman on the future of global nuclear disarmament. 
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November 18th, 2009
Another 9/11-scale attack unlikely, but al-Qa'ida still threatens, Crenshaw says
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsMartha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, testified Thursday, November 19, before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment on the subject of "Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa'ida Threat to the Homeland."
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November 2nd, 2009
'The Global Nuclear Future' -- special edition of Daedalus journal
CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan and Steve Miller of Harvard's Belfer Center have jointly edited a special two-volume issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, on "The Global Nuclear Future." Read more »
March 13th, 2009
EU: On the bench in Pyongyang
in the news: ISN Security Watch (Zurich, Switzerland) on February 17, 2009Robert Carlin, CISAC visiting fellow, discusses the possibility of US-EU joint policy approaches on North Korea.
January 29th, 2009
Condoleezza Rice to return to campus
in the news: Stanford Report on January 28, 2009In her first interview since leaving office, former Secretary of State Rice discusses her future at Stanford. The former CISAC member underlines the importance of simulation exercises in teaching, such as those used in the Winter Quarter course 'International Security in a Changing World.' Rice states: "Decision simulations press students really to think about not just the abstraction of policy but the actual operational questions and choices you have to make." Read more »