The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Disaster response
Scholarly Publications
Participatory risk network analysis: A tool for disaster reduction practitioners
March 2017
Disaster risk is the product of a complex set of networked processes. Development professionals often use participatory tools to help understand disasters.
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...
Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats
March 2009
The post-World War II fabric of global security, designed and maintained by the United States, has dangerously frayed.
Other Publications
Fukushima and the Inevitability of Accidents
November 2011
Abstract Governments regulate risky industrial systems such as nuclear power plants in hopes of making them less risky, and a variety of formal and informal warning systems can help society avoid...
Readiness in the Post-Katrina and Post-9/11 World: An Evaluation of the New National Response Framework
September 2007
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) draft National Response Framework proposes much-needed improvements for disaster preparedness and response.
Day After, The: Action in the 24 Hours Following a Nuclear Blast
May 2007
On April 19, 2007, the Preventive Defense Project convened a workshop of leading federal government civilian and military officials, scientists, policy experts, and journalists to address the...
News
CISAC hosts homeland security forum
August 2008
Private sector leaders, senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, and academic experts convened at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) for a forum on...
Paul Stockton joins CISAC, researches homeland security policy
November 2006
Paul Stockton joined CISAC this fall as a senior research scholar, bringing academic and political experience in homeland security policy issues.