The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Homeland Security
Scholarly Publications
Color Bind: Lessons from the Failed Homeland Security Advisory System
October 2007
An effective terrorism alert system in a federal government has one central task: to motivate actors to take costly protective measures.
Terror and Beauty - The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism
September 2005
Concepts and techniques from mathematics--specifically, from lattice theory and reflexive theory--have already been applied to counterterrorism and computer security problems.
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
December 2011
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex...
Other Publications
Disrupting Terrorist Travel: Safeguarding America's Borders Through Information Sharing
September 2004
Testimony before the U.S.
Improving Math Ed--Bush Right About That
March 2006
In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush stressed the importance of improving math education.
Censoring Science Won't Make Us Any Safer
June 2005
In 1920, the Irish Republican Army reportedly considered a terrifying new weapon: typhoid-contaminated milk.
News
CISAC's Paul Stockton to write for HLSWatch
March 2009
Paul Stockton, CISAC senior research scholar, has been asked to write for HLSwatch, a blog about "critical issues in homeland security."
CISAC's 2004-2005 fellows selected
May 2004
CISAC is announcing the selection of its 2004-2005 fellows.
Arms control workshop honoring George Bunn explores obstacles to nonproliferation
June 2004
Those who advocate nuclear arms control have many reasons for concern, with obstacles including a lack of public interest in the issue; inadequate security controls at facilities storing nuclear...
Events
Agent Orange: The Toxic Trail
November 1, 2007
Jeanne Mager Stellman (speaker) has just recently joined the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn N.Y as Professor and Director of the...
Suicide Attacks: Incorrect Arguments and Anomalies
October 18, 2007
Martha Crenshaw (speaker) is a senior fellow at CISAC and FSI and a professor of political science by courtesy.
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...
English
The Security Conundrum Speaker Series
In an age of terrorism, where should a democratic society draw the line on government surveillance?
English
Multimedia
Drell Lecture: Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter
April 2015
The Honorable Ashton B. Carter, 25th U.S.
People
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
