http://fsi.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from FSI Stanforden-usPublic domainhttp://fsi.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://fsi.stanford.edu/60http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1751Michael Wara and David Victor comment on the UN's Clean Development Mechanism's inability to prove that off-sets are working to reduce carbon emissions.]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1751http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1752Michael McFaul, Director of CDDRL, and Larry Diamond, Coordinator for the Democracy Program at CDDRL, as part of a bipartisan coalition of foreign policy and development leaders, writes to President-elect Barack Obama to recommend early critical steps toward strengthening development and diplomacy. The coalition, Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), also urges the President-elect to put forth a robust International Affairs Budget request for FY10.]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1752http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1749CISAC's Stephen Stedman, Bruce Jones from NYU and Carlos Pascual from the Brookings Institution will unveil a "plan for action" for President-elect Obama to tackle emerging transnational threats at FSI's annual conference Nov. 13. The plan is part of "Managing Global Insecurity," a project launched in 2007 that seeks to build international support for institutions and partnerships that can help foster peace and security for the next 50 years.]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1749http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1750PESD researchers Varun Rai, Ngai-Chi Chung, Mark Thurber, and David Victor have released an updated version of the PESD Carbon Storage Project Database. The previous version was released on 30 June 2008. The purpose of this work is to maintain an up-to-date database of all publicly-announced current and planned CCS projects worldwide, from which we project a trajectory of the quantity of carbon stored underground as a function of time. The paper suggests that a much wider application of CCS for the electric power industry will be needed in the next decade or so if CCS is to be a central player in efforts to slash CO2 emissions.]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1750http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1748President-elect Barack Obama's first major foreign policy test will be how to handle the issue of missile defense in Europe, CISAC's Pavel Podvig argues.]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1748http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1747David Straub, the acting director of Korean Studies Program, argues that Obama administration will finally give diplomacy a chance to deal with the North Korean nuclear problem. He stresses that Senator Obama understands the difficulties of dealing with North Korea and will proceed carefully. If North Korea does not respond to this more nuanced American approach, he concludes, the international community is likely to be more supportive of U.S. efforts to constrain North Korean behavior.]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1747http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1745Program on Global Justice Director %people1% and Glenn Loury of Brown discuss how Barack Obama's victory changes international opinion of Americans.]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1745http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1746Award-winning journalist Sarah Chayes spoke at CISAC Nov. 5 about the realities of the so-called "war on terror" from inside Afghanistan. A day after Barack Obama was named president-elect, she expressed hope that the United States would re-engage constructively with its global partners. "For the last 10 years, the U.S. has [acted] more and more unilaterally, and has withdrawn from the world," she said.]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1746http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1744"With the current affairs such as the financial crisis and the Iraq War," %people1%, the director of Shorenstein APARC, says "the new Obama administration may not have the North Korea issues on its priority list for a while. Lee Myung-bak administration, meanwhile, is urged to revisit the workable policies of the past as well as to initiate the pragmatic diplomacy towards the collaboration between South Korea and the U.S."]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1744http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1743Professor Phillip Lipscy discusses the current international financial crisis and provides insight for future reforms. "The IMF and World Bank should be reformed to better reflect the interests and concerns of rising economic powers. Voting shares need to be further redistributed to reflect underlying economic realities. Decisionmaking rules should be modified to give greater weight or agenda-setting authority to regional actors - the US may have a strong interest in loans to Mexico, but Japan may have a greater stake in Indonesia. Assignment of the top positions should be made truly competitive. Core functions should be decentralized - both institutions are headquartered in Washington, impeding employment of top talent from Asia and limiting intellectual exchange."]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/news/1743http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5428Open to the public (RSVP required)
Haggay Etkes, CDDRL Hewlett Fellow 2008-09]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:18:06 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5428http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5490Open to the public
Scott D. Sagan, Co-Director of CISAC (on sabbatical 2008-09) and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:42:06 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5490http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5477Open to the public
Dena M. Bravata; Jennifer Schneider; Sarah Jane Selig]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:29:13 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5477http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5496RSVP (RSVP required)
Heidi Syren Linton, Executive Director, Christian Friends of Korea]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:09:13 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5496http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5483Open to the public
Richard Katz; Mark Spiegel]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:06:09 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5483http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5407RSVP Required (RSVP required)
Jeanne Shea, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:54:22 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5407http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5489Open to the public
Rose McDermott; Herbert L. Abrams]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:50 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5489http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5488Open to the public
Robert Eberhart; Shigeo Kagami; Michael Alfant; Richard Dasher]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:46:21 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5488http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5473Open to the public (RSVP required)
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Arthur Bienenstock, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy, Stanford University]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:11:06 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/events/5463http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22316Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), Nov 10, 2008
MFAN's transition recommendations focused on immediate steps the Obama White House can take on modernizing foreign assistance]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:53:03 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22316http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22315Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN, Nov 10, 2008
A letter announcing MFAN's recommendations for President-elect Obama's transition team.]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:03:54 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22315http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22314Shorenstein APARC, distributed by the Brookings Institition Press, November 2008
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David Victor explores the possibilities of using geo-engineering systems to off-set the human impact on climate change.]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:21:34 PSThttp://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22307http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/22306JAMA vol. 300, Jul 2008
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