The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Institutions and Organizations
Scholarly Publications
Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in the October 1969 Crisis, The
April 2003
The history of the October 1969 alert demonstrates that even in this high-politics arena of nuclear diplomacy, presidential orders were actively fought against, sometimes manipulated or ignored,...
Learning from Normal Accidents
January 2004
Normal Accidents' growing influence since 1984 on social science scholarship and across academic, business and governmental disciplines was not accidental.
Comparative Analysis of Approaches to the Protection of Fissile Materials, A
May 1998
From the preface: "Events in recent years have caused heightened concern about the security of weapons-usable nuclear material.
Other Publications
Civil-Military Relations and Nuclear Weapons
June 1994
When a state develops a nuclear arsenal, these destructive weapons must be initially integrated into existing military forces and initially managed through existing civil and military institutions....
Collaborative Project on Soviet Defense Conversion
December 1992
Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) has undertaken a project to work with elements of the Soviet defense industry to help them convert production from...
Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises
April 1997
As a result of the rapid changes following the breakup of the Soviet bloc, there were suddenly new markets of hundreds of millions of people, covering a large portion of the earth, containing large...
News
CISAC fellow wins political science dissertation award
November 2004
Helen Kinsella, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, won the American Political Science Association's 2004 Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral...
Lynn Eden's book offers hot lessons from Cold War
November 2004
Lynn Eden's award-winning book, Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, focuses on the past but it offers broader lessons for the ongoing war on terror.
Stedman named to U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change
November 2003
On November 4, 2003, %people1%, CISAC Senior fellow, was appointed research director for the United Nations' new High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.
Events
Workshop on New Approaches to Security: Organizational Theory and International History
April 2, 2000
Resulting in part from the end of the Cold War, the study of international security has been infused with innovative approaches to international history and organizational theory.
Projects
Conflict Resolution
This area focuses on research related to failed states and state building, civil wars, conflict resolution and peacekeeping, refugees and democratic change.
English
China Energy Development, Global Climate Change, and International Mitigation Policy
The program explores the applicability of international policy instruments, such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) sanctioned at Kyoto in 1997, to decisions regarding and prospects for...
English
Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy
As part of a response to growing government concern over the threat of cyber attacks directed against critical national infrastructures, the National Security Agency (NSA) contracted with Stanford...
English
People
Karl Eikenberry Professor of the Practice Fellow, S-APARC, Core faculty, CISAC, Affiliate, CDDRL, Affiliate, TEC 
