Mr. Cao is a former research intern with the Center for Security Policy and a student of international relations at Stanford University.

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Kennedy University in the 1980s and co-chaired the first International Enneagram Conference held at Stanford University, in 1994.

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Rice was a specialist on Soviet affairs in the first Bush administration and continued writing and lecturing on international affairs while at Stanford University during the Clinton presidency.

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Mr. SCOTT SAGAN (Director, Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control): Sometimes they're interested in nuclear weapons because the United States is everybody's neighbor today.

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He teaches international environmental politics in the political science department at Stanford University and energy law at Stanford Law School.

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He will join Stanford as a visiting scholar at the university's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and will also be a visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

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She graduated in history from Stanford University, then went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where she completed a D Phil in international relations.

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Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chair of Hoover's Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.

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