The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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Scholarly Publications
Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
May 2018
From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner
June 2017
This is a chapter in the second edition of The National Security Enterprise, a book edited by Roger Z.
On Cyber-Enabled Information/Influence Warfare and Manipulation
April 2017
CISAC's Herbet Lin and Jackie Kerr from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory write in this draft working paper that the United States has no peer competitors in conventional military power. ...
Other Publications
Stop Drinking the Weak Sauce
February 2015
For 25 years now, a weak-state fixation has transfixed U.S. foreign policy, Amy Zegart writes in this Foreign Policy piece.
Nuclear weapons' future ripe for discussion
December 2011
The supercommittee's failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction will probably result in unexpected reductions of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
9/11 and the makers of history
September 2011
After 9/11, the administration of US President George W Bush initiated the era of the global war on terror. For many, this was a misguided response to terror attacks.
News
French report grapples with nuclear fallout from Algerian War
March 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned a report aimed at “reconciliation of memories between France and Algeria,” which France ruled as the jewel of its colonial empire for more than 130 years...
A statement on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 2020
The Science and Security Board calls on all countries to reject the fantasy that nuclear weapons can provide a permanent basis for global security and to refrain from pursuing new nuclear weapons...
Why the atomic bombing of Hiroshima would be illegal today Global Webinar
August 2020
The Bulletin hosted a global webinar featuring Scott Sagan, Bulletin SASB member and Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; Allen Weiner, director of the Stanford...
Events
Anarchic Bargain: Power Trajectories and the Trade-off Motivating Order Formation
May 20, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Livestream: Please click here to join the livestream webinar via Zoom or log-in with webinar ID 913 4480 9317. About the...
Defector Militias as Tools of Social Fragmentation: Evidence from Ba‘thist Iraq and Sudan
November 25, 2019
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/XFFT74SvaCM Abstract: Pro-government militias have become a regular dimension of counterinsurgency operations, serving governments in fighting rebels locally....
US National Security in an Era of Great Power Competition and Technological Disruption
August 5, 2019
The world is experiencing an unprecedented period of geopolitical change and technological disruption. How should we rethink U.S.
Projects
Empirical Studies of Conflict
The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) addresses critical challenges to international security through methodologically rigorous, evidence-based analyses of insurgency, civil war and...
English
UNHCR Project on Rethinking Refugee Communities
The deputy United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees approached Tino Cuéllar, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, to form a collaboration between Stanford’s...
English
Mapping Militant Organizations
This research project launched in 2009 traces the evolution of militant organizations and the interactions that develop among them over time.
English
Multimedia
The Heart of the Matter: The Humanities and Social Sciences for a Vibrant, Competitive and Secure Nation
November 2014
Karl Eikenberry, a distinguished fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, believes that the humanities belong at the center of American foreign policy. And his voice matters.
Remarks for the Annual Meeting of the National Humanities Alliance
March 2013
Karl Eikenberry, a distinguished fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, former U.S.
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