http://global.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from FSI Stanforden-usPublic domainhttp://global.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://global.stanford.edu/60http://global.stanford.edu/news/1710Philip Taubman, reporter and editor at the New York Times for nearly 30 years and an expert on national security issues, has been appointed as a consulting professor at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and as an adviser to the campus on university affairs issues.]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1710http://global.stanford.edu/news/1707Stephen Krasner, senior fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and professor of International Relations, moderated at an event last week discussing foreign affairs form the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the 2001 September 11th attacks of the WTC.]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1707http://global.stanford.edu/news/1708Larry Diamond's book, Hope Is Not a Plan, is used in reference to discussion on Iraq war and the US Army's cheif intellegence officer from 2003, Maj Gen Barbara Fast.]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1708http://global.stanford.edu/news/1709Michael McFaul, Director of CDDRL, is mentioned and quoted in Moscow Times in reference to his Obama advising.]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1709http://global.stanford.edu/news/1704Victor's keynote lecture, "Regulation and Pricing in the International Gas Market", highlighted some key issues that need particular attention in the rapidly changing Indian gas market.]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1704http://global.stanford.edu/news/1705%people1%, Associate Director of Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, proposes an oral history project to flesh out the story of U.S-Korean relations. "While books may last forever, one "non-renewable" source of information and wisdom is the oral history of our forerunners. When our elders and predecessors pass away, we bitterly regret that we did not ask them more about their experiences and insights. Thus I was delighted when I recently discovered a treasure trove of oral histories of American diplomats." says Straub.]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1705http://global.stanford.edu/news/1706CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker has been awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory's highest honor, the Los Alamos Medal.]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1706http://global.stanford.edu/news/1570The conventional explanation for Vladimir Putin's popularity is straightforward. In the 1990s, under post-Soviet Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, the state did not govern, the economy shrank, and the population suffered. Since 2000, under Putin, order has returned, the economy has flourished, and the average Russian is living better than ever before. As political freedom has decreased, economic growth has increased. Putin may have rolled back democratic gains, the story goes, but these were necessary sacrifices on the altar of stability and growth.]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1570http://global.stanford.edu/news/1655Since the first gulf war, most authoritarian regimes In the Arab world have been able to maintain structures of governance that have endured since the post-World War II process of decolonization. We have not seen the emergence of agents of change capable of mounting effective political challenges. Regimes that often seemed to be losing international and domestic credibility have been able to remake themselves in ways that worked to maintain power and control.]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1655http://global.stanford.edu/news/1657The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) is sponsoring long-term research on questions of European integration. This year FCE has conducted a series of seminars and international conferences to bring European authors and policy leaders together with forum researchers and Stanford centers to investigate the challenges of social integration. The series has combined the study of European Union (EU) policy toward its newest members, East-West and trans-Atlantic relations, crime and social conflict, and European models of universal citizenship.]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1657http://global.stanford.edu/events/5404Open to the public
Joel Kahn, 2008 NUS-Stanford Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Lecturer and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, La Trobe University, Australia]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:52:31 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5404http://global.stanford.edu/events/5390By Invitation Only (RSVP required)
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Andranik Migranyan, Professor, Russian State University for International Relations (MGIMO)]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:22:30 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5416http://global.stanford.edu/events/5429Open to the public
Rafiq Dossani]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:47:26 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5429http://global.stanford.edu/events/5435Open to the public
Dr. Michael Ascher, Dept. of Medicine and Epidemiology, UC Davis]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:32:11 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5435http://global.stanford.edu/events/5413Open to the public
Mary K. Goldstein]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:29:36 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5413http://global.stanford.edu/events/5431Open to the public
Lt. Col. Joseph Felter, National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institution]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:32:24 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5431http://global.stanford.edu/events/5405Open to the public (RSVP required)
Joel Kahn, 2008 NUS-Stanford Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Lecturer and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, La Trobe University, Australia]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:15:51 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5405http://global.stanford.edu/events/5426Open to the public (RSVP required)
Hakjoon Kim, Distinguished Practitioner, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:27:43 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5426http://global.stanford.edu/events/5412Open to the public
Tom Brokaw; John Hennessy; Congressman Xavier Becerra; Carly Fiorina; The Honorable Anthony Kennedy; David M. Kennedy; Jeff Raikes; Kavita Ramdas]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:34:36 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/events/5412http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22244Medical Decision Making vol. 28, July-Aug 2008
]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:38:22 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/publications/22244http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22243Adelphi Paper, International Institute for Strategic Studies vol. 334, May 2000
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Dr. Rai reports on India's major energy reforms since 1998.]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:11:52 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/publications/22242http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22241The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Forthcoming), 2008
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]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:01:18 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/publications/22240http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22239Palgrave McMillan Press, forthcoming
]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:57:55 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/publications/22239http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22238International Security vol. 31, Fall 2006
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]]>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:39:19 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/publications/22237http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22236CDDRL, July 2008
The case of Poland in the 1980s is an example of a successful democratic breakthrough with the endpoint defined, for the purposes of this paper, as the election of Tadeusz Mazowiecki­a Catholic intellectual, longtime member of the political opposition, and advisor to the Solidarno trade union movement­to the office of prime minister on August 24, 1989. Solidarno s victory in 1989 was not complete: elections had not been free and, in a power sharing agreement, half of Mazowieckis cabinet was filled by members from the previous Communist government: the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR) and their satellite parties, the Democratic Party (SD) and United Peasants Party (ZSL). Former party leader General Wojeciech Jaruzelski also retained power in the newly created position of president. Nonetheless, Mazowieckis election was the first time a non-communist had led a government in Eastern Europe since World War II, and was substantively and symbolically an exit from Polands Communist authoritarian period. Within a few months the PZPR dissolved and the government rewrote the constitution. After Mazowieckis election, the key issues for Poland became democratic consolidation and economic restructuring.]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:58:36 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/publications/22236http://global.stanford.edu/publications/22235Shorenstein APARC, distributed by Brookings Institution Press, November 2008
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