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March 5th, 2010
William Perry, David Kennedy argue for return of ROTC to Stanford
in the news: Stanford Report on March 5, 2010CISAC's William Perry and Stanford history professor David Kennedy presented a case to the Faculty Senate March 4, arguing for a return to campus of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Read more »
August 5th, 2009
CISAC mourns death of John Barton, member of center's executive committee
AnnouncementJohn Barton, law school professor emeritus, and founder of CISAC's predecessor organization, died Aug. 3, 2009. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m Aug. 16 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Los Altos. Barton, 72, recently spoke about the center's early days during a CISAC 25th Anniversary celebration.
- » Stanford News Service: John Barton, professor emeritus of law, dead at 72
- » SLS: Stanford Law School Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus John Barton '68
June 4th, 2009
CISAC Celebrates 25th Anniversary
More than 75 people connected to CISAC's past and present gathered in Encina Hall on Friday, May 29, to reminisce and look toward the center's next quarter century. The CISAC String Quartet led by Paul Stockton, who has just left CISAC to work as an assistant defense secretary, welcomed guests with concertos by Bach and Beethoven. Meanwhile, a slide show depicting CISAC's history through the decades brought back memories of potluck meals, receptions and group clean-up parties at Galvez House.
March 6th, 2009
CISAC's Hecker talks North Korea
in the news: Stanford Daily on March 6, 2009In an exclusive interview with The Stanford Daily, CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker spoke about his recent trip to North Korea. Read more »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC, CDDRL, PGJ Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
October 15th, 2007
Martha Crenshaw, pioneer in terrorism studies, joins CISAC
Martha Crenshaw is a pioneer in terrorism studies, one of a handful of scholars worldwide who started investigating the subject long before Sept. 11, 2001. Crenshaw, who joined CISAC this year as a senior fellow at FSI and a political science professor by courtesy, brings three decades of study to her current agenda of examining distinctions between so-called old and new terrorism, how terrorism ends, and why the United States is the target of terrorism. Read more »
January 25th, 2007
Sending more troops to Iraq is a big mistake, CISAC panelists say
in the news: Stanford ReportPresident Bush's plan for a troop surge in Iraq is "too little, too late," William Perry, former defense secretary and a member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, said during a panel discussion organized by CISAC on Jan. 22. "His strategy is not likely to succeed because it is tactical, not strategic, and because it does not entail real conditionality for the Iraqi government," Perry said. Larry Diamond, a former senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, and CISAC's James Fearon, a political science professor and civil war expert, also argued for more emphasis on regional diplomacy and on balancing political power in the Iraqi government. Read more »