May 21st, 2013

Stanford research team influences Chinese health policy

The Rural Education Action Program has a proven record of influencing policy decisions in China when it comes to improving children's health and nutrition. In interviews with NBC Bay Area, REAP co-director Scott Rozelle and members of his team talk about their work and the changes they've helped make. Read more »

May 20th, 2013

Earth scientist and nuclear waste expert Rod Ewing joins Stanford

Rod Ewing, a mineralogist and materials scientist who is an expert on nuclear waste management, will join Stanford University to focus on sustainable energy, security and environmental research at the intersection of physical science and public policy. Read more »

Stanton bestows $5 million gift on CISAC for professor in nuclear studies

The Stanton Foundation has given CISAC a $5 million gift to establish an endowed professorship in nuclear security and reinforce our mission to build a safer world. Read more »

May 17th, 2013

Human rights fellows tackle critical human rights issues this summer

The Program on Human Rights at CDDRL, together with the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, are pleased to introduce the 2013 Summer Human Rights Fellows. These four remarkable Stanford undergraduates were selected from a competitive pool of applicants to spend the summer serving in organizations advancing human rights work around the world. Read more »

Firewood becomes central to student research in Ethiopia

A Stanford student working on a project to bring together refugees and their host communities learns that firewood is often at the heart of rifts between the Ethiopians and the thousands of Sudanese seeking refuge in their back yards. Read more »

FSE Fulbright scholar leads climate adaptation workshops in Colombia

Sharon Gourdji spent three months this winter down in Colombia at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as a Fulbright Scholar studying climate impacts on bean production in Central America and adaptation options. During her stay she led a series of Decision and Policy Analysis workshops focused on climate data sources and crop statistical models.

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May 16th, 2013

Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?

Join us for our final Global Food Policy and Food Security symposium Thursday, May 23. John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University will lead a lecture on water and agriculture in a changing Africa. FSE fellow Jennifer Burney will provide commentary.

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Sagan praises Kenneth Waltz's legacy on nuclear debate

Scott Sagan, in this piece for Foreign Policy, remembers his longtime friend and writing partner Kenneth Waltz. The international relations theorist passed away on May 13. Read more »

Center seeks communications and outreach coordinator

Interested in communications, outreach, and Asian studies? Shorenstein APARC currently has an opening for the position of communications and outreach coordinator. Read more »

May 15th, 2013

Stanford scholar argues that time is running out for a two-state solution

CDDRL Director Larry Diamond argues in The Atlantic that there is no greater imperative for American interests in the Middle East- and no higher act of friendship that the U.S. can perform for Israel - than to help it find a way to a two-state solution before the option disappears. Read more »

Working paper series on the quality of governance in China debuts

As part of its ongoing effort to better conceptualize and measure governance, the Governance Project housed at CDDRL held two workshops in Beijing and Sonoma in the fall of 2012. A collection of nine papers capturing the various dimensions of governance presented at the workshops were released in May to contribute to the body of scholarship on this subject. Read more »

Argentine congresswoman emphasizes that politics is not for superheroes

CDDRL's 2012 Draper Hills Summer Fellow Laura Alonso is featured in The Washington Post's "Micro Management" video series to share her insights on leadership. Alonso, a congresswoman in Argentina, emphasizes that politics is not for superheroes and ordinary people -like herself- must enter politics to understand the needs of the common person. Read more »

As North Korea heats up, South Korea and Japan should warm ties

Sensitive wartime memories continue to resurface in Japan-South Korea relations, impeding important security collaboration efforts in Northeast Asia. Daniel Sneider describes the historical context and discusses recent events.

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Syria's chemical weapons could intensify civil war and regional instability

CISAC's Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer explains that when it comes to chemical weapons, Syria is no Iraq. The Assad regime's purported use of chemical weapons could have lasting effects in Syria and across the region. Read more »

British Islamist fighters in Syria a cause for concern

British Intelligence sources estimate about 100 of its citizens are fighting for Islamist groups in Syria. CISAC's Thomas Hegghammer explains that few Islamists from Western countries return and attack their homeland, but those who do generally carry out more successful attacks. Read more »

EU’s Catherine Ashton asserts Europe’s responsibility for a robust foreign policy

The Europe Center was pleased to host Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission (HRVP), at Stanford University on May 7th. HRVP Ashton’s address to a capacity audience of Stanford senior scholars is part of the Europe Center’s program focused on European and EU regional and global relations. The event co-sponsors - the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Hoover Institution - speaks to the esteem and the interest that multiple partners share in engaging the European Union’s highest foreign policy official. Read more »

Innovative leaders bridging diversity in Sweden and the West

The Europe Center, through its Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region, has forged partnerships with those who bring visionary solutions to the challenge of diversity and reconciliation in our increasingly globalized world. “Harbor of Hope: a special evening celebrating Sweden’s diverse cultures” held on May 6th is the latest effort by the Europe Center to disseminate this new way of thinking. The participation of Sweden’s leading documentary filmmaker Magnus Gertten, and Sweden’s cultural entrepreneur Ozan Sunar, resulted in an unprecedented pairing and an evening of motivating insight for a large public audience. Read more »

May 13th, 2013

Celebrating 30 years of connecting Asia and Stanford

This month the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center celebrates 30 years of connecting Asia and Stanford, and helping to guide American policy towards the region.
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May 9th, 2013

Park Geun-hye makes first official U.S. visit

South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited the United States this May for the first time since taking office in February. Stanford experts weigh in on the future of U.S.-Korea relations. Read more »

May 3rd, 2013

Tracking North Korean nuclear sites with cloud computing

Analysts at CISAC, together with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, are playing a leading role in deriving new and timely information of global security relevance from a variety of open-source geospatial tools. Read more »

May 2nd, 2013

Hecker discusses what's next for North Korea in Vienna talk

CISAC's Sig Hecker spoke about North Korea's nuclear program at a seminar in Vienna. Based on estimates from his visits to the country, most recently in 2010, Pyongyang does not have the technical capability to back up the threats it has issued. Read more »

Evaluating the impact and future of the International Criminal Court

In March, Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda surrendered himself unexpectedly to the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda asking for transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, where he was wanted for allegedly committing crimes against humanity. The apprehension of ICC indictees was one of the main challenges raised during the Program on Human Right's (PHR) Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series last quarter. Read more »

May 1st, 2013

Stanford scholars: Lessons learned from the Afghanistan War

Afghanistan: The New Forgotten War. Stanford scholars and military experts talk about lessons learned and what to expect after the 12-year war finally comes to an end.
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April 30th, 2013

Oi appointed to new Schwarzman Scholars program in China

Jean Oi was appointed to the Academic Advisory Council of the newly founded Schwarzman Scholars international scholarship program. Read more »

Expert says Obama's food aid reform has good ideas, bad chance for passage

FSE visiting fellow and food aid expert Barry Riley comments on the importance of the President's new food aid reforms, chances of passage, and the US's current role in international food aid. Read more »