The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Electricity
Scholarly Publications
Impact on Global Warming of Development and Structural Changes in The Electricity Sector of Guangdong Province, China
March 2000
This paper examines the impact on global warming of development and structural changes in the electricity sector of Guangdong Province, China, together with the possible effect of international...
Terrorist Speech and the Future of Free Expression
December 2005
On June 16, 2002, Dennis Pluchinsky, a senior intelligence analyst at the U.S. Department of State, wrote an article in the Washington Post calling for censorship.
Fueling the Future: Mongolian Uranium and Nuclear Power Plant Growth in China and India
September 2009
Increased nuclear electricity generation in China and India presents uranium suppliers such as Mongolia with an opportunity to develop its uranium and nuclear industries.
Other Publications
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...
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.
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics
October 2011
Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one.
News
A crude awakening: Five FSI scholars talk to Stanford magazine about energy security
December 2006
Michael May, Michael McFaul, Scott Sagan, David Victor, and John Weyant talk to Stanford magazine for the November/December cover story on energy security.
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
January 2007
An op-ed by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A.
Thomas Isaacs: The future of nuclear
March 2011
As Japan's troubles continue, CISAC's Thomas Isaacs discusses the future of the nuclear industry.
Old Events
On the Uranium Enrichment Program in Brazil
June 6, 2006
On May 5, 2006, Brazil officially inaugurated a plant that will produce enriched uranium to supply the country's two nuclear power reactors.
Main Issues Related to Nuclear Energy Expansion Around the World
February 25, 2009
Abstract: The expected increasing world energy demand makes it necessary for us to seriously and urgently study the questions of global warming due to greenhouse gas effect emissions and the...
Nuclear Energy in Growing Economies: Mongolia and North East Asia
May 27, 2009
Long-term demand for nuclear fuel is high as demonstrated by the continued rise in activities such as uranium mining and milling, enrichment, and fuel fabrication.
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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