The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Food Security
Scholarly Publications
Disowning Fukushima: Managing the credibility of nuclear reliability assessment in the wake of disaster
July 2013
Abstract: This paper reflects on the credibility of nuclear risk assessment in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns.
Ready-to-use food-allocation policy to reduce the effects of childhood undernutrition in developing countries
March 2013
Abstract: Several aid groups have proposed strategies for allocating ready-touse (therapeutic and supplementary) foods to children in developing countries.
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
Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis
November 2012
SummaryClimate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly.
Congressional Subcommittee Hearing on Reassessing the Evolving al-Qai'da Threat to the Homeland
November 2009
CISAC Senior Fellow Martha Crenshaw joined three other terrorism experts at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
N.S.A.'s Math Problem, The
May 2006
NEWS that AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth gave customer records to the National Security Agency has set off a heated debate over the intricacies of espionage law.
News
Stanford students visit refugee camps in Ethiopia on design project
March 2013
Four Stanford students traveled to Ethiopia, making their way to remote refugee camps along the Sudanese border to research ways in which technology and design innovation can improve conditions for...
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
Stanford researchers come together to discuss the environment and security
January 2011
What is the relationship between security and the environment?
Events
Extending the Shadow of the Law: Theory and Experimental Evidence
May 9, 2013
Can progressive, statutory legal reform improve the lives of the poor in places where formal legal institutions have limited reach?
From Campus to Camps: Presentations from the Student Research Trip to Ethiopian Refugee Camps
April 24, 2013
About the topic: The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees approached CISAC last year to collaborate on a project to improve conditions among global refugee communities.
Regulatory Implications of Fukushima for Nuclear Power Plants in the U.S.
May 22, 2012
About the Topic: Japan’s March 2011 Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami led to core damage in three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station.
Projects
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
This project involves political scientists, economists, and medical researchers to address the question of whether hunger, poverty, disease and agricultural resource constraints foster civil...
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