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May 30th, 2006
Domestic spying turns homeland into battlefield, warns CISAC scholar
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on May 18, 2006The National Security Agency's collection of U.S. citizens' phone records is the latest evidence of a shift in the way the government uses military assets, writes CISAC fellow Laura Donohue in the Los Angeles Times. In the war on terror, the United States has become a military theater of operations. At stake, Donohue adds, is the long-held "principle, embedded in the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, that the U.S. military not be used for domestic law enforcement." Read more »
May 8th, 2006
Congress appoints Perry to Iraq Study Group
in the news: New York Times on April 24, 2006William J. Perry, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC and 19th secretary of defense, has been chosen to serve on the congressionally mandated Iraq Study Group to generate new ideas on Iraq. The group is co-chaired by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, vice chair of the 9/11 commission investigating U.S. intelligence failures and former U.S. representative from Indiana. Read more »
CISAC fellow: U.S. civil rights movement shows way to Middle East peace
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on April 23, 2006One century after America's Civil War, the descendants of slaves daily faced the twin terrors of homicide and arson. Yet only 15 years after the rise of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the back of segregation and neo-Confederate violence had been broken. Can Palestinians likewise mount a successful, nonviolent movement toward peaceful co-existence with their former adversaries? CISAC science fellow Jonathan Farley, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, suggests they can. Read more »
April 10th, 2006
Civil war definition transcends politics
CISAC, CDDRL Op-ed: Washington Post on April 9, 2006Is the conflict in Iraq a civil war or not? Debate over this question is largely political. In this Washington Post op-ed, CISAC's James Fearon sets aside politics to explain the meaning of civil war and how it applies to Iraq. Read more »
January 6th, 2006
Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and Secretary of State George P. Shultz meet with the President to discuss Iraq
FSI Stanford, CISAC in the news: New York Times on January 5, 2006Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, FSI Fellow and Berberian Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, and Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a Hoover Institution Fellow, were among the 13 living former secretaries of defense and state invited to join President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld at the White House on Jan. 4, 2006 for a briefing on Iraq. Read more »
April 15th, 2005
In Iraq U.S. can show it has learned from Vietnam mistakes, say CISAC fellows
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on May 2, 2005"We hardly needed the 30th anniversary of the Vietnam War's end to remind us of that war," write CISAC Fellows Lien-Hang Nguyen and Karthika Sasikumar. "Iraq provides daily reminders, prompting frequent comparisons to Vietnam." If the United States applies some lessons from Vietnam, it need not repeat past mistakes in Iraq, the researchers argue in this op-ed. Read more »