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/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://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1710?http://cisac.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://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1706?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1649CISAC science fellow Undraa Agvaanluvsan faces no small task this summer: She has returned to her native Mongolia to help draft first-time legal and security protocols to ensure that the country's uranium-based nuclear industry develops safely while also attracting international investment. "Our government needs to be prepared to move ahead," the nuclear physicist said. "Mining needs to be regulated, there need to be laws specific to uranium so that extraction won't cause a risk to security."]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1649?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1699David Holloway reports that the ongoing crisis in Georgia has catapulted relations with Russia to a top place on the foreign-policy agenda. It has presented the United States-and the West more generally with important policy decisions, and it has brought to a head a debate that has been taking place for many years about how to deal with Russia.]]>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1699?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1693If there's a consensus about the confrontation between Russia and Georgia, writes CISAC's Pavel Podvig, it's that the conflict has seriously strained the relationship between Moscow and its Western counterparts--namely, the United States and NATO. Now that the worst of the conflict seems over, it appears that the harshest measures suggested in the first days of the conflict, i.e., expelling Russia from the G-8, won't materialize. Despite all of the disagreements and mistrust, each party seems to understand that severing ties between Russia and the West isn't realistic.]]>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1693?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1692Even as Russia pulls back troops from Georgia after fighting erupted between the countries, tensions remain high in the region. Russia has stationed peacekeepers and checkpoints near the border of the separatist region of South Ossetia, and Western leaders say Russia is still failing to comply with the French-brokered cease-fire. Gail Lapidus, a senior fellow emerita at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, has been tracking the events leading to the conflict in Georgia. A specialist on Soviet society, politics and foreign policy, she has written and edited a number of books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including The New Russia: Troubled Transformation.]]>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1692?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1672Private sector leaders, senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, and academic experts convened at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) for a forum on a revolutionary development in disaster response: the rise and pervasiveness of social network communications, and the way these networks will reshape the flow of information when disasters strike.]]>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1672?http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1665Heads of international organizations and foreign policy leaders from around the world met in Berlin, Germany on July 15 and 16 to discuss the future of international security and cooperation. Convened by the Managing Global Insecurity Project (MGI) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the event - "Responsible Sovereignty: International Cooperation for a Changed World" - was the MGI project's fifth and capstone advisory group conference. The goal of the Berlin session was to generate momentum toward a 2009-2010 campaign to expand global partnerships and rejuvenate international cooperation to address today's most pressing global challenges.]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/1665?http://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?