The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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Scholarly Publications
Explaining Suicide Terrorism: A Review Essay
January 2007
The current trend toward suicide bombings began in Lebanon in the early 1980s. The practice soon spread to civil conflicts in Sri Lanka, the Kurdish areas of Turkey, and Chechnya.
An Unaddressed Issue of Agricultural Terrorism: A Case Study on Feed Security
December 2004
In the late winter of 2003, a number of livestock animals in the Midwest were poisoned due to accidental contamination of a popular commercial feed with a lethal additive.
Other Publications
Patriot Act--A Remedy for an Unidentified Problem
October 2001
President Bush signed the Patriot Act last week. The new anti-terrorism law has its critics. Some object to the law's intrusions on civil liberties.
News
FSI names intelligence expert Amy Zegart CISAC co-director
June 2013
Amy Zegart, one of the nation’s leading experts on national security, intelligence and foreign policy and a CISAC faculty member, succeeds Tino Cuéllar as the next co-director.
Carnegie awards CISAC $1 million grant for research and training
January 2013
Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation that promotes "real and permanent good," has awarded a $1 million grant to CISAC to fund research and training on international peace and security...
Events
Survival Migration: Old Institutions, New Challenges
January 13, 2011
Dr Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also Director of the...
National Cultures and Soccer Violence
May 15, 2008
Edward Miguel received his PhD at Harvard in 2000, the same year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2005.
Committing to War: Political Exclusion and Indiscriminate Violence in Africa
February 22, 2007
Philip Roessler (speaker) is a postdoctoral fellow at CISAC and in 2007 will be the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in comparative government at the University of Oxford.
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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