The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Investment
Scholarly Publications
Commercialization of Russian Technology in Cooperation with American Companies
June 1999
The Soviet Union placed a high priority on science and technology and built a huge assembly of research institutes, educational programs, design bureaus, and production enterprises embodying some...
Defense Investment: A Strategy for the 1990s
December 1989
The national security strategy of the United States since World War II has changed frequently during the course of eight administrations and two wars.
Ownership Transformation, Economic Behavior, and Political Attitudes in Russia
August 1996
Has the rapid ownership transformation in Russia had an impact on enterprise performance or on worker behavior and attitudes?
Other Publications
Industrial Demilitarization, Privatization, Economic Reform, and Investment in Russia: Analysis and Recommendations
March 1993
Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) started a project on defense conversion in the Soviet Union in early 1990.
Summary of Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia: Case Studies and Analysis
March 1995
This report is an expanded version of the executive summary of a much larger report, "Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia: Case Studies and Analysis." Many people contributed to that report,...
News
Essay in Pakistan newspaper traces roots of crisis in the Islamic world
July 2004
In an essay published June 25 in The Friday Times (out of Lahore, Pakistan), Thomas W. Simons, Jr.
Research worth fighting for
April 2005
"Of the Pentagon's $419.3 billion budget request for next year, only about $10.5 billion--2 percent--will go toward basic research, applied research and advanced technology development," write ...
Thinking inside the box needed to secure borders, write CISAC professor and colleague
December 2005
The president's border security and immigration reform proposals won't protect Americans from the gravest cross-border threat: the possibility that a ship, truck or train will one day import a 40...
Events
India's Energy [In]Security and Growing Competition from China
December 10, 2012
There is considerable optimism that India will continue to grow economically, address the crippling poverty that the majority of the population still faces and become a great nation. Dr.
A New Paradigm for Engaging the War on Infectious Diseases
April 29, 2013
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the success of antibiotics and vaccines in controlling or eradicating infectious diseases (ID) worldwide resulted in decreased emphasis on development of ID...