The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Algeria
Scholarly Publications
Constructing the Field of Terrorism
March 2019
Abstract: This chapter reviews the evolution of Martha Crenshaw’s interests in and approaches to researching terrorism, a trajectory that begins in the 1960s and extends to the present.
Strengthening IAEA Safeguards: Lessons from Iraq
April 1993
This paper examines technical and institutional possibilities for improving the ability of the international safeguards regime to prevent or slow the spread of nuclear weapons.
Other Publications
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics
October 2011
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.
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
UN leader urges Stanford students to reach beyond borders for peace
January 2013
Despite a troubling tally of crises around the world, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hopeful about the future, and says he gains inspiration from the younger generation.
Martha Crenshaw awarded $500,000 to study terrorist patterns
October 2009
Crenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has received a National Science Foundation grant to identify patterns in the evolution of terrorist...
Martha Crenshaw, pioneer in terrorism studies, joins CISAC
October 2007
Martha Crenshaw is a pioneer in terrorism studies, one of a handful of scholars worldwide who started investigating the subject long before Sept. 11, 2001.
Events
The Knife, The Bomb, And the Spoken Word: Psychological Warfare And the Origins Of French Counterinsurgency In Algeria, 1954-1962
January 21, 2016
Abstract: In November 1954, French Algeria erupted in violence. Confronted with a growing nationalist revolution, French authorities turned to not only to repression, but to a radical program of...
The Declassification Engine 2.0: Exploring the History of Official Secrecy and the Future of Open Government
October 29, 2013
About the Topic: Recent revelations indicate the extent to which the government has used data-mining as a tool for surveillance, and the lengths to which it used official secrecy to conceal the...
Strategies for War Remembrance in Cinema
April 7, 2011
This panel of experts will focus on the question: Should we film war?