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
U.S.-Russia Young Professionals Nuclear Forum Participants Receive Rieser Award Honorable Mention
January 2020
For the first time in the history of the Leonard M. Rieser Award, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists gave an honorable mention.
Sixth Young Professional Nuclear Forum Held in Moscow in November
January 2020
The sixth Young Professional Nuclear Forum (YPNF6), sponsored by the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI...
Do Americans approve of Trump’s pardons for court-martialed military officers?
December 2019
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Events
The Dilemma of Nuclear Insecurity and Limits of Law
November 27, 2019
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in History and Philosophy of Science; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and Stanford Center for Law and History. Livestream: This event will not...
Security in a Post-Nuclear Age
October 28, 2019
Livestream: This event will not be live-streamed or recorded. Abstract: Seventy-five years after the introduction of nuclear weapons, it is no longer clear that these tools of security remain the...
Rethinking U.S. Nuclear Doctrine: The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy
September 25, 2019
Abstract: In 2013, the Obama Administration’s “Nuclear Employment Strategy” guidance announced that all war plans and operations would be “consistent with the fundamental principles of the Law of...
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
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