The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Electricity
Scholarly Publications
Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid “Smart”
December 2013
Abstract: Electrical grids have long depended upon information infrastructures—systems for exchanging information about electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and use.
North Korea's Choice: Bombs Over Electricity
July 2010
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons have a common technological foundation.
Other Publications
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics
October 2011
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.
Security in a World with Expanding Nuclear Power
August 2008
Nuclear energy is a clean and relatively economical source of electricity, generating nearly one-sixth of the world’s electricity today.
Verifying the Agreed Framework
April 2001
A joint Stanford University-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team of scientists, nuclear engineers and arms control experts has concluded in a new study that North Korea's compliance with the...
News
Stanford Conference Tackles Growing U.S. Nuclear Waste Problem
October 2015
The United States has a growing inventory of spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants that continues to accumulate at reactor sites around the country.
Funding research in the world's poorest places
February 2013
FSI's Global Underdevelopment Action Fund fuels interdisciplinary work across Stanford and helps put researchers in the field where they're trying to solve some of the world's toughest problems.
Kate Marvel and Michael May: What is the future of nuclear energy?
June 2011
In a new paper published by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Kate Marvel and Michael May explore the potentially game-changing events for the future of nuclear energy.
Old Events
Advanced Energy Technologies: Prospects and Challenges for Developing Countries
June 4, 2012
Dramatic improvements and cost reductions in renewable energy technologies have occurred over the past decade and even greater improvements are expected in the years to come.
The Politics of Nuclear Development: China as a Case Study
October 10, 2011
Nuclear energy is politically sensitive.
Reducing Nuclear Proliferation Risk Through Multinational Cooperation: North-East Asia and the Mongolian Nuclear Initiative
January 28, 2010
Undraa Agvaanluvsan is a native of Mongolia. She is currently a visiting professor at CISAC.
Projects
Critical Infrastructure Resilience
The Critical Infrastructure Initiative builds the cyber-resilience of critical infrastructure through methodologically diverse outputs-oriented research and engagement with end users and homeland...
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