The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Innovation
Scholarly Publications
The recruiter’s dilemma: Signalling and rebel recruitment tactics
January 2013
Abstract: How do terrorists recruit? We know much about the profiles and pathways of recruits, but little about the strategies and tactics of recruiters.
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
November 2011
Book description from Random House: What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common?
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
August 2011
Summary from Columbia University Press: For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving...
Other Publications
Put innovation at the heart of refugee protection work
January 2013
Alexander Betts, former CISAC fellow and current director of the Humanitarian Innovation Project at Oxford, explains why innovation offers so much potential for refugees to empower them and create...
Congress Could Deal Death Blow to American Scientific Exceptionalism
June 2012
Next year's proposed cuts in federal funding for scientific research and development could be as high as 8 percent, seriously impacting research in agriculture, energy and medicine.
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics
October 2011
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.
News
Firewood becomes central to student research in Ethiopia
May 2013
A Stanford student working on a project to bring together refugees and their host communities learns that firewood is often at the heart of rifts between the Ethiopians and the thousands of...
Stanford students visit refugee camps in Ethiopia on design project
March 2013
Four Stanford students traveled to Ethiopia, making their way to remote refugee camps along the Sudanese border to research ways in which technology and design innovation can improve conditions for...
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
April 2012
Bill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world.
Events
Seapower in the First and the Second Machine Ages: from self-propelled torpedoes to artificial intelligence
February 21, 2018
Abstract: What are the consequences of the emergence of robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence for international politics?
Safe Manipulation in Orbit: Grasping Objects in Space using Gecko-Inspired Adhesives
September 25, 2017
Abstract: As the orbital space around earth becomes increasingly crowded, there is an increasing need to capture and manipulate objects ranging from satellites and antennas to “uncooperative” space...
Curiosity, Frugal Science and Global health: Opportunities and Challenges
February 8, 2016
Abstract: Somebody once said, “What a damn fool can do for a dollar, an engineer can do for a nickel.” Thinking about cost as an engineering constraint brings new life to ideas.
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...
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