The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Democracy
Scholarly Publications
State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
February 2013
Abstract After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, its twenty-seven successor states were charged with devising policies with respect to their ethnic minorities.
Historicism, Theory, and Method
December 2011
Contention and Trust in Cities and States explores cities and nation-states throughout history and around the world, bringing together the research of top scholars.
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
December 2011
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex...
Other Publications
Andrew Grotto Testimony on "Cybersecurity and California Elections"
March 2018
To assess the threat to California's elections systems, the Assembly and Senate elections committees held a joint informational hearing on cybersecurity. The hearing discussed steps California...
U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for Democracy Around the World
June 2013
The University of Virginia's Christopher Jon Sprigman and CISAC's Jennifer Granick reveal how foreigners living in the United States do not have the same privacy protections as U.S.
Americans and Their Military, Drifting Apart
May 2013
Stanford's Karl Eikenberry and David Kennedy discuss the implications of America's switch to an all-volunteer force.
News
Donald Trump’s Claims About Radical Jihadists Are Very Wrong
June 2016
CISAC senior fellow Martha Crenshaw fact checks Donald Drumpf on terrorism.
Cuéllar looks back on leading FSI
December 2014
For 14 years, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar has been a tireless Stanford professor who has strengthened the fabric of university’s interdisciplinary nature.
Hecker: India's first-class nuclear program can still learn from Fukushima
July 2013
CISAC's Sig Hecker talks to one of India's top newspapers about why he admires that country's nuclear energy program.
Events
Drawing the line in redistricting (A mathematician's take)
January 30, 2018
Abstract: In this talk, I will describe a a body of mathematical work trying to quantify the extent to which a redistricting plan is a partisan gerrymander. This work served as the basis for my...
Bits and pieces: Liberal democracy in the digital era
March 14, 2017
The event is a joint sponsorship between CISAC, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the European Security Initiative (in The Europe Center) and the Center for Russian, East...
Crowdsourced Democracy: Algorithms, Platforms, and Mechanisms
November 9, 2015
Abstract: While social media pervades many aspects of our lives, it has not yet proved to be an effective tool for large scale decision making: crowds of hundreds, perhaps millions, of individuals...
People
Karl Eikenberry Professor of the Practice Fellow, S-APARC, Core faculty, CISAC, Affiliate, CDDRL, Affiliate, TEC 
