The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
History
Scholarly Publications
Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in the October 1969 Crisis, The
April 2003
The history of the October 1969 alert demonstrates that even in this high-politics arena of nuclear diplomacy, presidential orders were actively fought against, sometimes manipulated or ignored,...
Arms Control without Treaties? Rethinking U.S.-Russian Strategic Negotiations in Light of the Duma-Senate Slowdown in Treaty Approval
February 1998
This report on non-binding, non-treaty approaches to arms control draws upon research and discussion at the Center for International Security and Arms Control during 1990 and 1991, after the Cold...
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.
Other Publications
Ending the Threat of Nuclear Attack
May 1997
Late last year, we noted the tenth anniversary of what was probably the most remarkable of all the meetings between an American president and his Soviet counterpart, the Reykjavik Summit of October...
Military Readiness and the Training of China's Sailors
July 1989
This study of the naval-training system grew out of our larger project on the development of China's strategic weapons.
An Alliance That Really Works
November 2002
The celebration in Prague should have been more raucous. The most successful alliance in world history has extended to corners of Europe unimaginable just a few years ago.
News
CISAC's Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall selected as Carnegie Scholar
May 2004
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior research scholar with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at the Stanford Institute for International Studies and a senior adviser to...
CISAC recognizes 10 Honors Program graduates, 4 with award-winning theses
June 2004
A graduation ceremony held at CISAC on June 11 recognized the 10 undergraduate students who this year have completed the center's Interschool Honors Program in International Security Studies, and...
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.
Events
Workshop on New Approaches to Security: Organizational Theory and International History
April 2, 2000
Resulting in part from the end of the Cold War, the study of international security has been infused with innovative approaches to international history and organizational theory.
Agent Orange: The Toxic Trail
November 1, 2007
Jeanne Mager Stellman (speaker) has just recently joined the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn N.Y as Professor and Director of the...
Projects
MacArthur Consortium on International Peace and Cooperation
A consortium composed of Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin has applied to the John D. and Catherine T.
English
People
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
