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The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

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The Next Director of National Intelligence: A Thankless Job Is Getting Even Harder

Amy Zegart

Commentary

At the end of July, Dan Coats, the U.S. director of national intelligence (DNI), announced his resignation. When he leaves office on August 15, the U.S. intelligence community will be left with two...
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail

Amy Zegart, Michael Morell

Commentary

For U.S. intelligence agencies, the twenty-first century began with a shock, when 19 al Qaeda operatives hijacked four planes and perpetrated the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. In the wake of...
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons

Jeffrey Knopf, Anne I. Harrington

Book

Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As...
What Really Went Wrong at WIPP: An Insider’s View of Two Accidents at the Only US Underground Nuclear Waste Repository

Journal Article

Within a 10-day period in February 2014, two accidents happened at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico – the United States’ only underground repository for nuclear waste. First, a...
The Existential Threat From Cyber-enabled Information Warfare

Herbert Lin

Journal Article

Corruption of the information ecosystem is not just a multiplier of two long-acknowledged existential threats to the future of humanity—climate change and nuclear weapons. Cyber-enabled information...

Commentary

The Next Director of National Intelligence: A Thankless Job Is Getting Even Harder

Commentary

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail

Book

Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons

Journal Article

What Really Went Wrong at WIPP: An Insider’s View of Two Accidents at the Only US Underground Nuclear Waste Repository

Journal Article

The Existential Threat From Cyber-enabled Information Warfare

Journal Article

On the Organization of the U.S. Government for Responding to Adversarial Information Warfare and Influence Operations

Journal Article

Anomalous behavior of nonequilibrium excitations in UO2

Journal Article

Dissolution of radioactive, cesium-rich microparticles released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in simulated lung fluid, pure-water, and seawater

Book

Constructing the Field of Terrorism

Journal Article

International Intervention and the Rule of Law after Civil War: Evidence from Liberia

Journal Article

Whither Non-Alignment? Indian Ocean Zone of Peace and New Delhi’s Selective Alignment with Great Powers during the Cold War, 1964–1979

Journal Article

Cyber negotiation: a cyber risk management approach to defend urban critical infrastructure from cyberattacks

Noncitizen Soldiers: Explaining Foreign Recruitment by Modern State Militaries

Journal Article

Evolution and Structure of the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management

Journal Article

Probabilistic Performance Assessment vs. the Safety Case Approach

Book

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies - The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Policy Brief

Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing

Policy Brief

Reset of America’s Nuclear Waste Management Strategy and Policies

Commentary

Atomic Homefront: a film about struggling to live with Manhattan Project radioactive waste

Journal Article

Chronic long-term risk of low-level radiation exposure: Bridging the lay/expert divide

Journal Article

Mission Impossible? Socio-technical Integration of Nuclear Waste Geological Disposal Systems

Commentary

George Washington Was a Master of Deception

Journal Article

Introduction to the special issue on strategic dimensions of offensive cyber operations

Journal Article

Cheap fights, credible threats: The future of armed drones and coercion

Commentary

The Self-Inflicted Demise of American Power

Journal Article

From Denial to Punishment: The Security Dilemma and Changes in India’s Military Strategy towards China

Book

Bearing the Weight of the World: Exploring Maternal Embodiment (Chapter: Indeterminate Life: Dealing with Radioactive Contamination as a Voluntary Evacuee Mother)

Journal Article

What Explains Counterterrorism Effectiveness? Evidence from the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan

Journal Article

Not Just a War Theory: American Public Opinion on Ethics in Combat

Blog

Why We are Unconvinced NATO’s Cyber Policy Is More Aggressive, and That’s a Good Thing