November 3, 2009

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'Plan D' for Spent Nuclear Fuel

A new report from ACDIS recommends several steps towards revising U.S. management of spent nuclear fuel.

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Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security

The summer 2009 issue of ACDIS Swords and Ploughshares addresses social and sustainability dimensions of the biofuel debates.

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ACDIS to Host Arctic Security Symposium

ACDIS and partner centers at Illinois will host a symposium on November 5, 2009, titled "Global Security, Climate Change, and the Arctic: Implications of an Open Northwest Passage"

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ACDIS Weekly Biosecurity Seminar

During fall 2009, ACDIS is sponsoring a seminar series examining the scientific, legal, social, ethical, and policy aspects of global biosecurity.

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News

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Professor Clifford Singer discusses a proposed plan for managing spent nuclear fuel storage problems in a radio interview program.

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Dr. Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution and faculty affiliate, co-founder, and former director of ACDIS, was recently interviewed on WILL-AM (NPR) radio.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
With the Obama administration currently weighing options in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Professor Ryan Hendrickson discusses the outlook on war powers of Obama and other key U.S. political figures.

Saturday, October 10th, 2009
ACDIS Director Colin Flint and ACDIS faculty member Edward Kolodziej were among those interviewed by the News-Gazette for reactions to President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

Wednesday, October 07th, 2009
ACDIS has issued a call for papers for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference that it will host in April 2010.

Sunday, October 04th, 2009
ACDIS Associate Director Matt Rosenstein presents several reasons why the majority of Pakistanis view the United States as a threat and mistrust US policy intentions.

Recent Publications

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Professor John Vasquez analyzes the causes of war in The War Puzzle Revisited, an updated and expanded version of his groundbreaking study.

Friday, July 03rd, 2009
In an article for the PIR Center (Russia) journal, Security Index, ACDIS research scientist Jürgen Scheffran analyzes the implications of climate change and global warming for security in different regions of the world.

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The July issue of Epilogue, the monthly magazine of Jammu & Kashmir, features selected articles reprinted from the ACDIS journal Swords and Ploughshares.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Missile tests are occurring with alarming frequency these days—see recent activities by North Korea and Iran. So the time might be right to seek a global missile test ban, say ACDIS researcher Jürgen Scheffran and Bharath Gopalaswamy.