

<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>CISAC News, Events, Publications</title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/</link><description>Recent news, events + publications from CISAC</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Public domain</copyright><image><url>http://cisac.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpg</url><title>CISAC News, Events, Publications</title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/</link></image><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Another 9/11-scale attack unlikely, but al-Qa'ida still threatens, Crenshaw says]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2160</link><description><![CDATA[November 18th, 2009 - CISAC, FSI Stanford  In the News<br />%people1%, 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."]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe to be nominated U.S. ambassador to UN Human Rights Council]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2150</link><description><![CDATA[November 10th, 2009 -   Announcement<br />CISAC Affiliate Donahoe is to be nominated to a key post in Obama administration, the White House announced Nov. 9.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott D. Sagan named Caroline S.G. Munro Professor]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2143</link><description><![CDATA[November 4th, 2009 -    News<br />CISAC Co-Director Scott D. Sagan, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, has been named to an endowed professorship in political science.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joan Rohlfing named president of Nuclear Threat Initiative]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2142</link><description><![CDATA[November 3rd, 2009 -   In the News<br />Joan Rohlfing, a 1987-88 CISAC fellow, has served as NTI's senior vice president since the organization's founding in 1991. She will take over as president at the end of this year. From left, sociologist Lynn Eden, Rohlfing and astronaut Sally Ride from their days as CISAC fellows.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Nuclear Future -- special edition of Daedalus journal]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2140</link><description><![CDATA[November 2nd, 2009 -    News<br />CISAC Co-Director %people1% 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."]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using intelligence to shape the future]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2127</link><description><![CDATA[October 26th, 2009 - CISAC, FSI Stanford   News<br />"We spend $45 billion annually to reduce uncertainty, to help us combat threats to our nation, our people, and our security," said Payne Distinguished Lecturer Thomas Fingar in his third Payne lecture, devoted to anticipating the future--"not for purposes of prediction but for purposes of shaping it."  Noting that strategic intelligence treats the future neither as "inevitable or immutable," Fingar employed real-life examples from his career in national intelligence to explore concrete ways intelligence can be used to move developments in a more positive direction.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha Crenshaw awarded $500,000 to study terrorist patterns]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2125</link><description><![CDATA[October 21st, 2009 - CISAC, FSI Stanford   News<br />Crenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has received a National Science Foundation grant to identify patterns in the evolution of terrorist organizations. "Mapping Terrorist Organizations" will be the first worldwide study to analyze terrorist groups and trace their relationships over time.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exchange over Scott Sagan's 'No First Use' article in Survival]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2122</link><description><![CDATA[October 19th, 2009 -   In the News<br />In the June-July 2009 issue of Survival, Scott Sagan argued for the United States to adopt a declaratory policy of nuclear no first use. In response, Survival invited experts to comment on the argument, with a conclusion from Sagan.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2009-10 CISAC Fellows and Visiting Scholars]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2126</link><description><![CDATA[October 16th, 2009 -   Announcement<br />CISAC is pleased to announce fellows and visitors at the Center during the 2009-10 academic year.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joseph C. Martz from Los Alamos National Lab named inaugural Perry Fellow]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2113</link><description><![CDATA[October 15th, 2009 - CISAC, FSI Stanford  Press Release<br />Joseph. C. Martz, a nuclear materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), has been named the inaugural William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford University.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recent Developments in Laser Weapons and The Assessment of Their Implications for Space Security]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5856</link><description><![CDATA[ Research Seminar: Dec 3, 2009 3:30 PM<br />Open to the public<br />Jan M. Stupl; Clay Moltz]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:33 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alienated Nations, Fractured States: Afghanistan and Pakistan]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5940</link><description><![CDATA[ Workshop: Dec 3, 2009 9:00 AM<br />Open to the public (RSVP required)<br />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:52:06 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TBA]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5919</link><description><![CDATA[ Research Seminar: Jan 7, 2010 3:30 PM<br />Open to the public<br />Robert Rosner, Visiting Professor, CISAC]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:13:45 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drell Lecture: Phil Taubman in Conversation with Sid Drell and George Shultz]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5872</link><description><![CDATA[ Lecture: Jan 25, 2010 4:00 PM<br />Open to the public<br />Sidney D. Drell; George P. Shultz; Philip Taubman]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:02:43 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers of Jihad: The Interpretation]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5907</link><description><![CDATA[ Research Seminar: Apr 22, 2010 3:30 PM<br />Open to the public<br />Diego Gambetta, CISAC Affiliate]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:20:25 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/5907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congressional Subcommittee Hearing on Reassessing the Evolving al-Qai'da Threat to the Homeland]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22749</link><description><![CDATA[Congressional Testimony - Martha Crenshaw<br />House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, Nov. 19, 2009<br />CISAC Senior Fellow Martha Crenshaw joined three other terrorism experts at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:57:23 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shifting From a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22748</link><description><![CDATA[Journal Article - Jeffery H. Richardson<br />Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September-October 2009<br />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:44:32 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regimes of Terror:  The Relationship between Democracy and Terrorism in Chile]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22744</link><description><![CDATA[Dissertation - Jane Esberg<br />CISAC--Honor's Thesis, May 2009<br />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:02:11 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations, States, and Violence]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22743</link><description><![CDATA[Book - David Laitin<br />Oxford University Press, September 2007<br />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:34:04 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Qaeda's Miscommunication War: The Terrorism Paradox]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22741</link><description><![CDATA[Journal Article - Max Abrahms<br />Terrorism and Political Violence vol. 17, 2005<br />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:36:52 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making nuclear energy work]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22734</link><description><![CDATA[Journal Article - Robert Rosner<br />Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists vol. 64, March/April 2008<br />How shifting research goals and improving collaboration with industry will help U.S. national labs spur new nuclear energy development.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:05:58 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weighing the Case For a Convention to Limit Cyberwarfare]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22712</link><description><![CDATA[Journal Article - David Elliott<br />Arms Control Today, November 2009<br />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:45:32 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel’s Future and Iran’s Nuclear Program]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22711</link><description><![CDATA[Journal Article - Leonard Weiss<br />Middle East Policy, Fall 2009<br />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:12:28 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iranian Strategy in Iraq: Politics and "Other Means"]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22704</link><description><![CDATA[Occasional Paper - Colonel Joseph Felter, Brian Fishman<br />Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Oct 13, 2008<br />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:11:18 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth of nuclear power: drivers & constraints]]></title><link>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22703</link><description><![CDATA[Journal Article - Richard K. Lester, Robert Rosner<br />Daedalus vol. 138, Fall 2009<br />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:08:21 PST</pubDate><guid>http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/22703</guid></item></channel></rss>