AI Outperforms Traditional Methods in Controlling Disease Spread Between Prisons and Communities
A reinforcement learning AI model used by SHP researchers achieved high reductions in infections with far fewer resources used for testing and much less intense non-pharmaceutical interventions.
AI-augmented Class Tackles National Security Challenges of the Future
In classes taught through the Gordian Knot Center, artificial intelligence is taking a front and center role in helping students find innovative solutions to global policy issues.
In the second annual “Reimagining Democracy” webinar series, professor Francis Fukuyama dove into the root causes of democracy’s current crisis. He discussed how declining trust, civic disengagement among youth, and other societal challenges have weakened democratic systems and what actions are needed to revive them.
SPICE Curriculum Consultant Dr. Ignacio Ornelas Rodriguez shares his research into the legal and civil rights advocacy of key Mexican American leaders and institutions.
Professor Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, shares insights from his new book on Cold War lessons and the autocracy-democracy struggle.
CDDRL postdoctoral scholar Maria Nagawa examines how foreign aid projects influence bureaucrats’ incentives, effort, and the capacity of bureaucratic institutions.
In his new book, alum and CISAC affiliate Philip Taubman explores the paradoxes of the Pentagon chief who drove U.S. escalation in Vietnam while wrestling with private doubts.
With the [New START] treaty due to expire in February 2026, the Trump administration must decide how to respond to a Russian proposal to extend the treaty’s quantitative limits for one year.
The award recognizes their book, “Propaganda in Autocracies” (Cambridge University Press, 2023), as the best book in political economy published in the past three years.
In Nigeria, women are far less likely than men to attend meetings or contact leaders. Claire Adida’s research reveals interventions that make a difference.
Golden received the 2025 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Best Dataset Award for her “Global Legislator Database,” a cross-national dataset on the characteristics of 19,704 national parliamentarians in 97 of the world's 103 electoral democracies.
At the 4th International Conference on the Sociology of Korea, a cross-generational community of scholars gathered at Stanford to examine how Korea’s fast-changing society illuminates shared challenges of demographic transition, inequality, mental health, migration, and more.
Fmr. chief American nuclear weapons negotiator breaks down Putin's surprise nuclear offer, China's nuclear buildup, & what it takes to survive and succeed at the diplomatic table, especially at NATO.
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from post-doctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.
The following reflection is a guest post written by Jackson Bai, an alumnus of the Sejong Korea Scholars Program, which is currently accepting student applications until November 1, 2025.
Global stock exchanges today operate in a transformed environment. They remain commercial enterprises competing for listings, but they are also strategic assets deeply embedded in state policy and geopolitical rivalry.
