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Middle East and North Africa
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
ISIS Counts on Anger Over Paris to Advance Its Cause
November 2015
ISIS uses violence as a recruiting tool. The attack on Paris marked a fundamental shift in who the Islamic State targets for violence, but not its aims.
There Is No Global Jihadist Movement
March 2015
What’s sometimes referred to as the global jihadist “movement” is actually extremely fractured, CISAC's terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw writes in this commentary in The Atlantic.
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.
News
Biden's Afghanistan Decision
March 2021
President Biden has inherited America’s longest war—the war in Afghanistan—at a critical moment. Under the Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban, the US government is supposed to withdraw...
Al Qaeda's Leader Remains Dangerous
September 2020
Nineteen years after 9/11, al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has yet to achieve the household notoriety evoked by that of his immediate predecessor, Osama bin Laden.
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...
Events
Islamic Humanitarian Law and Islamic Armed Groups
September 1, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone.
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...
The Wagner Group: Untangling the Purpose behind a Russian Power Tool
January 29, 2020
This event is co-sponsored by the European Security Initiative* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/1rkTwxnf2Fg About this...
Projects
Seminars Co-Sponsored With MEI
The Middle East Initiative (MEI) series brings academics and practitioners together to examine new patterns of geopolitical competition, conflict, and cooperation across the Middle East, with a...
English
Regional Conflict and Cooperation
Regional conflicts present their own set of unique challenges to the international community.
English
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
Multimedia
Why France and the European Union Still Matter for the United States
February 2015
Is Europe "elderly and haggard", and could France become "the crucible of Europe" (Jan.
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.
People
Colin H. Kahl Senior Fellow Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
