The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
International Law
Scholarly Publications
Anti-Terrorist Finance in the United Kingdom and the United States
January 2006
This article adopts a two-tiered approach: it provides a detailed, historical account of anti-terrorist finance initiatives in the United Kingdom and United States--two states driving global norms...
Refugee Security and the Organizational Logic of Legal Mandates
July 2006
ABSTRACT: While the refugee protection system is one of international law's most recognizable features, it routinely places massive numbers of refugees in camps in the developing world, where they...
The Use of Force and Contemporary Security Threats: Old Medicine for New Ills?
December 2006
International terrorism carried out by nonstate actors and the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to dangerous states have emerged in recent years as the most significant security threats...
Other Publications
Old Law for a New World? The Applicability of International Law to Information Warfare
February 1997
The development of "information warfare" presents international legal issues that will complicate nations' efforts both to execute and to respond to certain information warfare attacks,...
Torture Memos and Accountability
May 2009
On April 16, 2009, the Justice Department released four previously classified memos issued by its Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that provided legal guidance on the permissibility of certain...
News
CISAC fellow wins political science dissertation award
November 2004
Helen Kinsella, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, won the American Political Science Association's 2004 Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral...
CISAC's Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall selected as Carnegie Scholar
May 2004
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior research scholar with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at the Stanford Institute for International Studies and a senior adviser to...
Book Review: The Gunslinger
July 2008
FSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review.
Events
Network Attribution Theory: A New Approach to Internationally Wrongful Acts
April 20, 2006
Matthew Rojansky is a JD candidate at Stanford Law School and a CISAC predoctoral fellow. His research focuses on international law and security, counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation.
Courts Without Borders: The Politics and Law of Extraterritorial Regulation
November 30, 2006
Tonya Putnam is currently a visiting scholar at CISAC and an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University.
Projects
Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy
As part of a response to growing government concern over the threat of cyber attacks directed against critical national infrastructures, the National Security Agency (NSA) contracted with Stanford...
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Enhancing Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540
In Resolution 1540, the United Nations Security Council, acting under its Chapter VII power to adopt measures that are legally binding on all U.N.
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