http://global.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from FSI Stanforden-usPublic domainhttp://global.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://global.stanford.edu/news/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/1710?http://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/1707?http://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/1708?http://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/1709?http://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/1704?http://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/1705?http://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/1706?http://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/1570?http://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/1655?http://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/1657?http://global.stanford.edu/news/1659One of Stanford's many remarkable attractions is the Rodin sculpture garden. And perhaps the most extraordinary Rodin sculpture is his Gates of Hell, inspired by Dante's Inferno. In his Divine Comedy, Dante tells us that the inscription over the Gates of Hell is "abandon all hope, ye who enter here."]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1659?http://global.stanford.edu/news/1661Prominent conflicts such as the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir and the conflict on the Korean Peninsula highlight the need for peaceful solutions to violent territorial disputes. Although the effectiveness of negotiated legal solutions to such conflicts is often questioned, a new Stanford study suggests that treaties that resolve territorial conflicts "work" -- in the sense that they are associated with a large reduction in the probability of subsequent conflict.]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1661?http://global.stanford.edu/news/1662As oil prices surge through $140/barrel at the time of writing, surely one can at least count on the invisible hand of the market to drive further exploration and production and ultimately bring more supplies on line, right? Or perhaps, more ominously, high oil prices presage a darker future of shortage and conflict as global oil fields pass their geological "peak"? In fact, both positions miss a crucial point about the dynamics of the world oil market -- that it is increasingly animated by the counterintuitive behavior of the state-owned oil and gas giants that now control the vast majority of the world's hydrocarbon resources.]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1662?http://global.stanford.edu/news/1664The Stanford program on International and Cross-cultural Education (SPICE) has just announced a major new interdisciplinary, interactive initiative for middle school and high school students on the road to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. "The Road to Beijing" initiative includes a new documentary featuring world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, a new documentary developed by NBC that features Olympians who will participate in the Beijing Olympics, curriculum materials addressing Beijing and issues raised by the Olympics, an interactive website, and teacher professional development.]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1664?http://global.stanford.edu/news/1646Dr. Alejandro Toledo, former president of Peru, describes his vision as "democracy that delivers." "My colleagues and I who have taken that challenge of public life as a vocation and life commitment," Toledo says, "cannot but feel concerned about the great challenges faced by our continent where half its population lives between poverty and misery and where inequalities and social exclusion are at their highest."]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://global.stanford.edu/news/1646?