The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Ethnicity
Scholarly Publications
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
February 2003
An influential conventional wisdom holds that civil wars proliferated rapidly with the end of the Cold War and that the root cause of many or most of these has been ethnic and religious antagonisms...
Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia
December 2002
This book compares sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, two regions beset by the breakdown of states suffering from extreme official corruption, organized crime extending into warlordism...
Other Publications
The false promise of the nation-state
September 2011
Emerging nation-states like Libya and Palestine are constrained by local elites integration in socio-economic networks.
News
Stanford conference promotes new thinking on migration and integration
September 2013
Academics from American, European and Asian universities came together at Stanford University on September 19th and 20th to present their research on the large-scale movements of people, and engage...
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar: How educational inequality affects American leadership
March 2011
Earlier this year U.S.
How one school district found religion
June 2006
Americans have never been in greater need of understanding religious differences and cultivating respect for religious freedom.
Events
Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium
October 18, 2012
David Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science and an affiliated faculty member at CISAC.
Can the Good Guys Win? Moral Dilemmas in Asymmetric War
April 27, 2012
Abstract: In the lecture I will address the criticism that is current among some soldiers and academic strategists these days that if you try to fight an asymmetric war in accordance with the US...
Afghanistan: The Road Ahead
April 17, 2012
About the topic: This talk will provide a current affairs assessment of the situation in Afghanistan.