News & Announcements

Former ISP (International Security Program) Research Fellow Peter Krause has published a book with Cornell University Press (2017), Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win, as part of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs series.

Aisha S. Ahmad's "The Security Bazaar: Business Interests and Islamist Power in Civil War Somalia," International Security, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Winter 2014/15), pp. 89–117, has received the Best Security Article Award given by the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association. This is the first year that ISSS has given a Best Security Article Award, so Aisha Ahmad is the inaugural winner.

The recent climate change talks in Paris animated a lot of security concerns from many different perspectives. Of of the most common security themes at the Paris summit—and was even mentioned in the final draft—hinged on how the impacts of climate change are a driver for a lot of security concerns.

The Project on Managing the Atom offers fellowships for pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and mid-career researchers for one year, with a possibility for renewal, in the stimulating environment of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. The online application for 2016-2017 fellowships opened December 15, 2015, and the application deadline is January 15, 2016. Recommendation letters are due by February 1, 2016.

Behind every security issue — national or international — are cultural, economic and social factors that need to be considered when tackling the problem. In the case of global terrorism, a better understanding and more open dialog about the religion of Islam itself is vital.

Former International Security Program Research Fellow Paul Staniland has been selected as the third annual winner of the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for Outstanding First Book in International Relations, Comparative Politics, or Political Economy for Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014).