The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
State-building
Scholarly Publications
Refugees in International Relations
December 2010
" Refugees in International Relations shows that strategic and institutional thinking are essential to understand the causes of forced migration, its consequences, and appropriate policy responses....
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States
April 2004
George W. Bush and his administration came into office with a self-consciously realist orientation in foreign policy.
War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building Under Putin, The
March 2004
Gail Lapidus writes that the war in Chechnya has played a complex and highly negative role in Russia's political development.
Events
Theories of Development and External State-Building
March 24, 2017
Abstract: Both the academic and policy making worlds have been dominated by three explanations for development, understood broadly as democratization and rising levels of per capita income.
The Ties that Bind: Elite Networks and Stability in Iraq and Syria
January 29, 2015
Abstract: Why and how do elite arrangements vary across authoritarian regimes?
Rebel Governance, War Legacies, and Post-Conflict Democratization
October 20, 2011
Reyko Huang is a 2011-2012 Zukerman fellow and predoctoral fellow at CISAC. She is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Columbia University.
Projects
Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union
Ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union, and their potential for triggering serious interstate conflicts, pose a major threat to regional and international security in the years ahead.
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