The Balance of Nuclear Humility: Techno-optimism, Complexity, and the Perils of Nuclear Primacy

Honors Thesis Presentations | June 5, 2025

Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

Honors Thesis Presentations | May 29, 2025

Honors Thesis Presentations | May 22, 2025

Honors Thesis Presentations | May 15, 2025

Geopolitics and Deterrence in Cyberspace: Opportunities and Limits of Offensive Cyber Capabilities

Humanitarian Calculus: A History of Weapons Prohibitions in International Law, 1860s–1970s

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) Symposium 2025

QAnon and Weaponized Disinformation

Regulate or Innovate: Assessing the AI Revolution and Next Steps in the U.S. and E.U.

Strategic Stability Dialogue between the United States and China in Historical Perspective

Bringing Realism Back: National Interests and Variations in EU Support for Ukraine

AI and the U.S. Nuclear Enterprise

Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine

89 seconds to midnight: Is time running out on nuclear arms control?

The Hand Behind Unmanned

Geopolitics, National Security, and Organized Crime

Cycle of Suffering: Why Military Retaliation Provokes Rather Than Deters

What Have Survey Experiments Taught Us About Decisions to Use Nuclear Weapons?

Leaders, Reputation & War

Public Opinion and the Return of Nuclear Crisis Management

“Entrusting the Lamb to the Wolf”: Racism and International Intervention

Global Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War

Thinking Historically – A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy

“There is Nothing Left”: Jus ad Bellum Proportionality and Israel’s War Against Hamas in Gaza

Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation

The Effect of Oversight on the Quantity and Quality of Policing

War in the 21st Century: Clues from Ukraine for Modernization and Future Conflicts

New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

Upstart: How China Became a Great Power

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition

Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency

3rd Annual Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia - Day Two

3rd Annual Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia - Day One

Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes International Competition

Lessons from the NPT Regime for India for Setting Up a Multilateral AI Governance Framework

Flagging Dual-Purpose Research in the Physical Sciences

The “Race Gap” in Foreign Policy Attitudes: Black and White Views on International Affairs

The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam

Seeking Security: Threat Perception and Policy-Making in a Dangerous World

The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace

Cascading Crises and Competing Visions for the Future

Is Climate Change an Existential Risk?

Algorithms & Atrocities

Should We Use Language Models In High-Stakes Decision-Making Scenarios?

Ukraine's Unnamed War: 2014-2022

The 1969 Nuclear Crisis: Confusion, Contingency, and China

CISAC 40th Anniversary

Repurposing Rebellion: How Today’s Rebels Become Tomorrow’s Parties

What Does America Stand For? | Drell Lecture 2024 with Condoleezza Rice

From Local to Transnational: When Armed Groups Target Across Borders

The Missiles on Our Land: What 60 More Years of Land-Based Nuclear Missiles Mean for America

The Future of Nuclear Proliferation After Ukraine

Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

Who Will Be With You in the Trenches Near Tehran and Beijing? A Talk With a Ukrainian MP

How the Bomb Shapes Leaders: The Psychology of Power and Prevention

The Technological Revolution in International Humanitarian Law

Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War