The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Colombia
Scholarly Publications
Organizational legacies of violence Conditions favoring insurgency onset in Colombia, 1964–1984
May 2012
Abstract Why do insurgencies erupt in some places and not in others?
Rape Reporting During War: Why the Numbers Don't Mean What You Think They Do
August 2011
First page of the article: Reports of sexual violence during the ongoing unrest in Libya have captured headlines across the world.
From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation
February 2007
This book presents a comparative study of Colombian drug-smuggling enterprises, terrorist networks (including al Qaeda), and the law enforcement agencies that seek to dismantle them.
News
Poorly Governed Resource-Dependent States: Policy Options for the New Administration
July 2013
Many resource dependent states have to varying degrees, failed to provide for the welfare of their own populations, could threaten global energy markets, and could pose security risks for the...
Violent Corruption and Violent Lobbying: Logics of Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia
July 2013
Why have militarized crackdowns on drug cartels had wildly divergent outcomes, sometimes exacerbating cartel-state conflict, as in Mexico and, for decades, in Brazil, but sometimes reducing...
Empirical Studies of Conflict Project launches data archive
January 2013
CISAC Senior Research Scholar Joe Felter and colleagues at Princeton and UC San Diego launch an exhaustive research and data archive for the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.
Events
A Farewell to Arms? The Geography of Recruitment and Remilitarization
February 26, 2015
Abstract: What happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords? Why do they remilitarize or demilitarize?
CDDRL-CISAC Special Seminar: The Logic of Violence in Drug Wars: Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia
March 1, 2013
Abstract: Why have militarized crackdowns on drug cartels had wildly divergent outcomes, sometimes exacerbating cartel-state conflict, as in Mexico and, for decades, in Brazil, but sometimes...
International Insurance: Why Militant Groups and Governments Compete with Ballots Instead of Bullets
October 6, 2011
Aila Matanock is a pre-doctoral fellow at CISAC. She is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Stanford's Political Science Department (degree expected in June 2012).
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...
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Mapping Militant Organizations
This research project launched in 2009 traces the evolution of militant organizations and the interactions that develop among them over time.
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