http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from CISACen-usPublic domainhttp://cisac.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/60http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1654FSI 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."]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1654?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1628CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker talks to Al Jazeera about being one of the few outsiders to have visited North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility, what he saw on his visits to the plant, and how likely he thinks it is that North Korea will give up its nuclear program.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1628?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1551CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan interviewed former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright May 27 before a capacity audience in Kresge Auditorium about the challenges facing the next U.S. president. Albright, now a professor at Georgetown, also offered an insightful, and often biting, analysis of current policy dilemmas worldwide.]]>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1551?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1546CISAC development manager Nora Sweeny and Stanford Video have received a bronze Telly Award in the History/Biography category for "Peace of Mind: A Film Tribute to William J. Perry."]]>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1546?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1542CISAC faculty member John Lewis argues in the Boston Globe that the North Korea diplomatic initiative launched by President Bush in October 2006 will come to naught if the administration fails to follow through on promises it made to encourage Pyongyang to destroy its nuclear weapons programs.]]>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1542?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1537A U.S. official says a preliminary review of thousands of documents shows North Korea has fully accounted for its plutonium development program. But the papers may not convince skeptics that the disarmament process is moving ahead.]]>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1537?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1534Siegfried Hecker and William Perry argue that the Bush administration should not walk away or slow down talks with Pyongyang, instead it should focus on limiting North Korea's nuclear capabilities by concluding the elimination of plutonium production.]]>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1534?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1533Ohio Wesleyan University presented CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during its 164th commencement ceremony on May 11.]]>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1533?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1525The National Research Council at the National Academies has released a new, book-length report from its Committee on the Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assistance Programs. CDDRL/CISAC faculty member Jeremy Weinstein was a member of the committee and co-author of the report, "Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research," which is available for PDF download and will be published in hard copy Dec. 2008.]]>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1525?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1522Dr. Hecker testified April 30, 2008, about the importance of expanding the cooperative threat reduction programs to counter the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons capability.]]>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1522?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1521CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1521?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1520The American Physical Society has honored CISAC's Podvig for helping a establish in Moscow "a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia."]]>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1520?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1512After visiting the Yongbyon nuclear complex in February, CISAC's Co-Director Siegfried Hecker, the former head of Los Alamos National Lab, judges that North Korean officials are working in "good faith" to disable the facilities. But he warns that complete denuclearization presents formidable obstacles.]]>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1512?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1496CISAC members %people2%, %people4%, and %people3% participated in"Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution," a daylong event co-hosted by Stanford Law School. CISAC affiliate %people1% conceived and developed the project.]]>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1496?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1493The International Studies Association has awarded CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan the 2008 Deborah "Misty" Gerner Innovative Teaching in International Studies Award for his simulation exercise that he has taught to Stanford undergraduates for the last decade through PS 114S "International Security in a Changing World."]]>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1493?