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FSI scholars join high-level commission on democracy in the digital age
October 2018
The Kofi Annan Foundation has tapped four Stanford scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) to help advance one of its top priorities: to shed light on the rapidly...
Facebook and Congress Must Create Regulations Together
April 2018
Featuring Eileen Donahoe, executive director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator and Allison Berke, executive director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative.
Protecting democracy from online disinformation requires better algorithms, not censorship
August 2017
*/ "New laws in democratic countries that force social media platforms to remove disinformation will encourage autocratic countries to do the same, with devastating effects on human rights," writes...
Events
Digital Technology and Democracy: Launch of the Global Digital Policy Incubator
September 26, 2017
Michael McFaul, Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor Political Scienceand FSI Senior Fellow, Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover...
New Alliances in Cybersecurity, Human Rights and Internet Governance
February 17, 2016
On Wednesday, February 24, CDDRL, in partnership with the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), hosted...Posted by Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law ...
Away from the Keyboard? The Challenges of Command and Control over Cyber Operations
March 7, 2013
ABOUT THE TOPIC: Nearly all scholars writing about the potential for cyber war conclude that states, assumed to be unitary rational actors, are unlikely to use offensive cyber capabilities.
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How will Michael Flynn's resignation affect US-Russia relations?
February 2017
Russia expert and Stanford University senior fellow Kathryn Stoner on Russian reaction to the national security adviser's resignation. Watch the video here.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, GDPi Fellow, Stanford Cyber Initiative Fellow 
