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December 6th, 2012
Companies open their own intelligence shops to manage risks
CISAC in the news: Foreign Policy on December 5, 2012Amy Zegart explains why private companies are developing their own intelligence units that conduct surveillance and analyze information to protect their businesses and personnel against geopolitical risks. She argues that these units, which operate much like the CIA, are becoming necessary to conduct global business. Read more »
November 28th, 2012
Why cultures clash when military leaders run the CIA
CISAC Op-ed: Foreign Policy on November 28, 2012Amy Zegart explains why military leaders have a difficult time running intelligence agencies. Even though both deal with national security, their organizational structures create very different operational cultures.
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 »
September 5th, 2012
Zegart launches biweekly intelligence column at Foreign Policy
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsCISAC affiliated faculty member Amy Zegart has launched a biweekly intelligence column at www.foreignpolicy.com. The inaugural column examines the new book by an ex-Navy SEAL about the Osama bin Laden raid and the challenges of operating within our 20th century secrecy regime in the increasingly wired world of the 21st century. The column will run every other Wednesday. Read more »
August 17th, 2012
Deciphering the National Intelligence Estimates on Iran's nuclear program
CISAC Op-ed: Foreign Policy on August 15, 2012CISAC Affiliate Jeffrey Lewis, founder of the blog ArmsControlWonk.com, explains that journalists and foreign policy elites have misunderstood the National Intelligence Estimates on Iran's nuclear program, particularly the 2007 report, which claimed that Iran halted its covert nuclear weapons program in 2003. Lewis spoke with FSI's Tom Fingar, who explained that the report intended to signal that Tehran is sensitive to international pressure, and that it could restart the nuclear weapons program at a later date.
May 3rd, 2012
Twenty years of inter-Korean relations and the North Korean nuclear issue
Shorenstein APARC, KSP NewsLim Dong-won, former South Korea unification minister and architect of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae-jung's Sunshine policy, spoke at Stanford on May 18 in conjunction with the English-language release of his memoir Peacemaker.
March 28th, 2012
Students learn through assignments based on real global events
Shorenstein APARC NewsStanford students in the winter quarter course U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia (IPS 244) had the opportunity to step into the challenging role of a National Security Council staff member and consider how they would advise the United States on responding to a crisis in East Asia. Read more »
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