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Governance, Organizations, and Security
Governance and organization issues affect government agencies' ability to transcend cultural or bureaucratic problems that can bedevil security policy. They can also impact nations' ability to cooperate with one another. Understanding and addressing these issues is a major priority for CISAC.
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October 29th, 2012
Ballots and Beijing: November 6 from China's perspective
CISAC, Shorenstein APARC, SCP NewsThomas Fingar, FSI’s Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, considers how the outcome of the election could impact U.S.-China relations, and how the United States could focus its priorities in Asia. Read more »
October 12th, 2012
1962 or 2012? Intelligence agencies still failing 50 years on
CISAC in the news: Foreign Policy on October 10, 2012CISAC Faculty Member Amy Zegart outlines how 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA and other intelligence agencies still operate in an organizational and psychological mindset that favors consensus and consistency. These "invisible pressures" led to intelligence failures in Cuba in 1962 and Iraq in 2002. Read more »
October 5th, 2012
Stanford-UN collaboration rethinks refugee communities
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsThe UNHCR has called on CISAC's security experts to collaborate on a project to better protect and support the more than 42 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide. The result is a multidisciplinary partnership across the Stanford campus and around the world. Read more »
October 3rd, 2012
Hecker: U.S. failure to ratify anti-testing treaty hurts nonproliferation globally
CISAC in the news: CTBTO Spectrum Magazine on September 19, 2012Siegfried S. Hecker, CISAC co-director and nonproliferation expert, writes in CTBTO Spectrum that the United States should take the lead in ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. Read more »
October 2nd, 2012
Zegart: Americans' support for harsh counterterrorism methods increasing
CISAC Op-ed: Foreign Policy on September 25, 2012In the face of a terrorist attack, one quarter of Americans said they would use nuclear weapons to stop terrorists. Read more »
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