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July 31st, 2011
Matthew Kroenig: 'Nuclear Zero? Why Not Nuclear Infinity?'
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on July 30, 2011In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Matthew Kroenig argues "the world would not be safer if the U.S. had no nuclear weapons." Read more »
March 14th, 2011
Scott D. Sagan: What the world thinks of Obama's nuclear policy
Press ReleaseIn a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review, edited by CISAC's Scott Sagan and Harvard's Jane Vaynman, 13 prominent researchers from around the world examined foreign governments’ policy responses to the president's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, the landmark document published last April. Read more »
December 7th, 2010
The ethics of the draft
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsWho should fight? It is no idle question in an era in which thousands of U.S. troops are fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect Americans back home. In fact, the answer has profound consequences for the way policymakers make decisions about how these wars are waged. On Dec. 2, scholars from Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University examined this issue as part of the Ethics and War series, co-sponsored by the Center for International Security and Cooperation. Their conclusion: there is a wide and troubling divide between the 2.4 million Americans who volunteer to serve in the military and the many millions more who choose not to. 
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February 1st, 2010
William Perry named co-chair of panel to assess Quadrennial Defense Review
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has named William Perry joint chair of an independent panel selected to assess the Department of Defense's (DOD) Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). The bipartisan panel is required by law to submit by July 2010 a report to Congress that assesses challenges the nation faces and rebalances DoD strategies, capabilities and forces to address today's conflicts and tomorrow's threats.
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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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August 27th, 2009
Princeton's John Ikenberry reviews 'Power and Responsibility' in Foreign Affairs
in the news: Foreign Affairs on September 1, 2009In this major new treatise on twenty-first-century global security, Jones, Pascual, and Stedman -- all experienced policy thinkers -- provide a conceptual framework and comprehensive agenda for U.S. foreign policy in a world of security interdependence, writes G. John Ikenberry, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton. 
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May 28th, 2009
"Power and Responsibility" on Forum with Michael Krasny
in the news: KQED on May 28, 2009Stephen Stedman, CISAC faculty member, and Bruce Jones, CISAC consulting professor were interviewed by Michael Krasny on KQED's Forum about their recently released book, "Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats." 
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