The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Cybersecurity
Scholarly Publications
Building on the Basics: An Examination of High-Performance Computing Export Control Policy in the 1990s
November 1995
This paper reports the results of a study of the special export control regime for high-performance computers.
Critical Infrastructures: The Path Ahead (Proceedings of: XIWT symposium on Cross-Industry Activities for Information Infrastructure Robustness)
February 1999
The Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT), with the support of Stanford University Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy (CRISP), sponsored a symposium on cross-industry...
Public and Private Roles in the Protection of Critical Information-Dependent Infrastructure
May 1997
The discussion begins with a conceptual framework for addressing the protection of infrastructure systems subject to attacks on their information subsystems.
Other Publications
High-Performance Computing, National Security Applications, and Export Control Policy at the Close of the 20th Century
May 1998
If high-performance computing (HPC) export control policy is to be effective, three basic premises must hold: There exist problems of great national security importance that require high...
Old Law for a New World? The Applicability of International Law to Information Warfare
February 1997
The development of "information warfare" presents international legal issues that will complicate nations' efforts both to execute and to respond to certain information warfare attacks,...
U.S. Military and Civil Infrastructure Protection: Restrictions and Discretion under the Posse Comitatus Act, The
November 1999
This article sets out the constraints of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (the “Act”), which generally prohibits active enforcement of civilian laws by the military, and describes the discretion of...
News
Sept. 11: Are we safer 10 years later?
September 2011
Ten years after the terrorist attacks, five leading experts weigh in on the state of the jihadist movement, U.S. intelligence, and the cost of safety.
Cybersecurity talk draws business and political leaders to Stanford CISAC
January 2012
Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation brought together lawmakers and Silicon Valley industry leaders to discuss what President Obama has called "one of the most serious...
Events
Conventional and Dual Use Technology Export Control Legislation in the European Union and the United States: How Legislative Convergence Is Being Undermined by Administrative and Strategic Divergence
March 1, 2007
Noah Richmond (speaker) is a CISAC Zukerman Fellow and a Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation fellow.
Big Organizations and Climate Change: The Rubber Hits The Road And The Smell Is Awful
April 16, 2009
Charles Perrow is an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and a visiting professor at CISAC in the winter and spring terms.
Projects
Critical Infrastructure Resilience
The Critical Infrastructure Initiative builds the cyber-resilience of critical infrastructure through methodologically diverse outputs-oriented research and engagement with end users and homeland...
English
Multimedia
Cybersecurity Boot Camp
October 2014
Video of Cyber Boot Camp The Stanford Congressional Cyber Boot Camp, sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, was held on the Stanford campus from Aug. 18-20, 4014.
Drell Lecture: Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter
April 2015
The Honorable Ashton B. Carter, 25th U.S.
People
Toomas Hendrik Ilves Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, GDPi Fellow, Stanford Cyber Initiative Fellow 
Alex Stamos Adjunct Professor Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Director, Stanford Internet Observatory 
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
