FSI scholars produce research aimed at creating a safer world and examing the consequences of security policies on institutions and society. They look at longstanding issues including nuclear nonproliferation and the conflicts between countries like North and South Korea. But their research also examines new and emerging areas that transcend traditional borders – the drug war in Mexico and expanding terrorism networks. FSI researchers look at the changing methods of warfare with a focus on biosecurity and nuclear risk. They tackle cybersecurity with an eye toward privacy concerns and explore the implications of new actors like hackers.
Along with the changing face of conflict, terrorism and crime, FSI researchers study food security. They tackle the global problems of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation by generating knowledge and policy-relevant solutions.
The Chinese Approach to Security Multilateralism in East Asia
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The Stanford China Program, in cooperation with the Center for East Asian Studies, will host a special series of seminars to examine China as a major political and economic actor on the world stage. Over the course of the autumn and winter terms, leading scholars will examine China actions and policies in the new global political economy. What is China's role in global governance? What is the state of China's relations with its Asian neighbors? Is China being more assertive both diplomatically as well as militarily? Are economic interests shaping its foreign policies? What role does China play amidst international conflicts?
Seiichiro Takagi is a professor at the School of International Politics, Economics and Communication at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan and a Senior Visiting Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He specializes in Chinese foreign relations and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Previously, he was the director of the Second Research Department, which was responsible for area studies, at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. He also served on the Graduate School of Policy Science of Saitama University (which became the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies) for over 20 years, and has been a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution and Beijing University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan Association for International Security, and is a member of several other organizations, including the Japanese Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific (CSCAP); the Japan Association for International Relations; and the Japan Political Science Association. His recent publications in English include China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States, 2007 and in Japanese The U.S.-China Relations: Structure and Dynamics in the Post-Cold War Era, 2007.. He earned a B.A. in international relations from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, California.
This event is part of the China and the World series.
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FSE director Roz Naylor delivers lecture on 'The Battle Over Biofuels' as part of University of Washington's 2010 Food Series
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Her talk asks has the biofuels boom subsided, or are the battles just beginning? Is ethanol and biodiesel production compatible with the broader goals of feeding the world and saving wild biodiversity? Rosamond L. Naylor explores the political, economic, and scientific trade-offs behind the global expansion of crop-based biofuels.
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
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Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and
concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee
the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet
Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to
becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever -- to
serve as Secretary of State.
But until she was 25 she never learned to swim.
Not
because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was a little
girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor
decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens
access.
Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class
largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive
effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next
generation would live better than the last. But by 1963, when Rice was
applying herself to her fourth grader's lessons, the situation had
grown intolerable. Birmingham was an environment where blacks were
expected to keep their head down and do what they were told -- or face
violent consequences. That spring two bombs exploded in Rice's
neighborhood amid a series of chilling Klu Klux Klan attacks. Months
later, four young girls lost their lives in a particularly vicious
bombing.
So how was Rice able to achieve what she ultimately did?
Her
father, John, a minister and educator, instilled a love of sports and
politics. Her mother, a teacher, developed Condoleezza's passion for
piano and exposed her to the fine arts. From both, Rice learned the
value of faith in the face of hardship and the importance of giving back
to the community. Her parents' fierce unwillingness to set limits
propelled her to the venerable halls of Stanford University, where she
quickly rose through the ranks to become the university's
second-in-command. An expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs,
she played a leading role in U.S. policy as the Iron Curtain fell and
the Soviet Union disintegrated. Less than a decade later, at the apex
of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election, she received the
exciting news - just shortly before her father's death - that she would
go on to the White House as the first female National Security Advisor.
As comfortable describing lighthearted family moments as she
is recalling the poignancy of her mother's cancer battle and the heady
challenge of going toe-to-toe with Soviet leaders, Rice holds nothing
back in this remarkably candid telling. This is the story of Condoleezza
Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world
leader, but of a little girl - and a young woman -- trying to find her
place in a sometimes hostile world and of two exceptional parents, and
an extended family and community, that made all the difference.
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Human Rights and Justice in Argentina
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Patricia Isasa, a successful architect in Argentina, is a survivor of torture and imprisonment from the age of 16 to 18 during the Argentine dictatorship. She was imprisoned in 1976. Twenty years later she almost single handedly investigated the identities of 8 perpetrators of the crimes against her and others. Because of an impunity law in Argentina at the time, she took her case to Judge Baltasar Garzon in Spain who requested extradition, which was denied. In 2009 her case was finally tried in Argentina.
Six perpetrators were found guilty of human rights violations. Her trial is one of the first trials of the Argentine military and police. Patricia is now helping others with their cases and is working with President Cristina Kirchner to investigate the takeover of Papel Prensa in the 70s by the then and present media giant Clarin, which has resulted in extensive corporate control of the media in Argentina.
Sponsored by
Program on Human Rights, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,
Center for Latin American Studies,
and Arroyo House
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Bolivar House, Stanford University
582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA
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The BP Oil Spill: Environmental Justice Implications
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Join us for a discussion on human rights and environmental justice implications surrounding the BP oil spill from regulatory, litigation and conceptual perspectives.
Introduced and moderated by Dr. Helen Stacy, Co-ordinator, Program on Human Rights in the Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute.
Panelists:
Meg Caldwell, Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program; Executive Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Woods Institute for the Environment. Professor Caldwell's scholarship focuses on the environmental effects of local land use decisions, the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation, and developing private and public incentives for natural resource conservation.
Deborah Sivas, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director, Environmental Law Clinic. Professor Sivas's current research is focused on the interaction of law and science in the arena of climate change and coastal/marine policy and the ability of the public to hold policymakers accountable.
Ursula Heise, Director, Program in Modern Thought & Literature and Professor of English; member of the Executive Committee of the Program in Science, Technology & Society; Affiliated Faculty of the Woods Institute for the Environment. Author of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press, 2008), After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture, (forthcoming) and The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature (in progress).
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