The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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Scholarly Publications
Organizational legacies of violence Conditions favoring insurgency onset in Colombia, 1964–1984
May 2012
Abstract Why do insurgencies erupt in some places and not in others?
Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment
August 2005
How does the resource base of a rebel group impact its membership, structure, and behavior?
Potential Sources of Financing for U.S. Ventures in Russia
December 2001
Following the end of the Cold War, the United States and its allies recognized that it was in their vital security interests to promote stable transitions in the countries of Central and Eastern...
Other Publications
Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises
April 1997
As a result of the rapid changes following the breakup of the Soviet bloc, there were suddenly new markets of hundreds of millions of people, covering a large portion of the earth, containing large...
Events
Locating the Oil Wars
December 4, 2008
Emily Meierding is a Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Department of Political Science.
Institutional Biosafety Committees: A System in Need of Overhaul
February 27, 2008
Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs) have been charged with the oversight and review of biosafety at thousands of biocontainment labs nationwide, hundreds of which are high level BSL-3 and BSL...
Risk Communication and the Public Debate on Biocontainment Facilities
October 31, 2006
The siting and construction of high-level biocontainment facilities involves a complex review process with environmental impact documents, legally mandated reviews, and public involvement in...
Projects
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
This project involves political scientists, economists, and medical researchers to address the question of whether hunger, poverty, disease and agricultural resource constraints foster civil...
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