The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Institutions and Organizations
Scholarly Publications
Integrating Offensive Cyber Capabilities: Meaning, dilemmas, and assessment
August 2018
Abstract: Across the world, states are establishing military cyber commands or similar units to develop offensive cyber capabilities.
Insider Threats
February 2017
High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials.
Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons
September 2016
In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer tells the story of the Iraqi and Libyan programs from their origins in the late 1950s and 1960s until their dismantling.
Other Publications
The Self-Inflicted Demise of American Power
July 2018
NATO leaders have a lot to worry about. The U.K. government is a Brexit hot mess.
Atomic Homefront: a film about struggling to live with Manhattan Project radioactive waste
June 2018
Abstract: This commentary reviews and discusses HBO’s new documentary, Atomic Homefront, which shows how communities are still struggling to live with radiation from radioactive waste generated...
Offensive Cyber Capabilities: To What Ends?
January 2018
Abstract: There is a growing interest in the use of offensive cyber capabilities (OCC) among states.
News
“Atoms for Police”: The United States and the Dream of a Nuclear-Armed United Nations, 1945-62
October 2020
In commemoration of the UN’s 75th anniversary, Ryan Musto unveils the forgotten history of the dream to arm the UN with nuclear weapons and why three U.S. presidential administrations ultimately...
Ukraine, NATO, and Russia
September 2020
Since regaining its independence in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse nearly 30 years ago, Ukraine has sought to build links with the West. This includes ties with institutions such as...
US nukes in Poland are a truly bad idea
May 2020
On May 15, the U.S. Ambassador in Warsaw, Georgette Mosbacher, suggested relocating U.S. nuclear weapons based in Germany to Poland. One hopes this was just a mistake by a political appointee...
Events
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race And Presidential Power From Truman To Trump
May 5, 2020
* Please note all CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/wV3Jvqri5Ds About the Event: Throughout America’s atomic history, the president has...
The Tragedy of American Nuclear Policy
February 7, 2020
Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/YQU4cuywdK8 About this Event: What sort of narrative defines the American experience with nuclear weapons?
Demystifying China
January 23, 2020
Livestream: Registration is required and will close 24 hours before the event. Click here to register.This event is available only to CISAC faculty, fellows, staff, and honors students. About this...
Projects
Regional Conflict and Cooperation
Regional conflicts present their own set of unique challenges to the international community.
English
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
People
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
