The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Disease
Scholarly Publications
Can the Nation Afford a Senior Citizen As President? The Age Factor in the 1996 Election and Beyond
April 1997
Disabling illness has been widely observed among national leaders. This is hardly unexpected because many of them govern at an age when there is a high incidence of debilitating disease.
Modeling the Incubation Period of Inhalational Anthrax
July 2008
Ever since the pioneering work of Philip Sartwell, the incubation period distribution for infectious diseases is most often modeled using a lognormal distribution.
Can the Twenty-fifth Amendment Deal with a Disabled President? Preventing Future White House Cover-ups
March 1999
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution evolved as a response to the need to relieve a sick and disabled president fromthe responsibilities of office, in the best interests of both the sick...
Other Publications
More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, A
December 2004
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan created the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change in September 2003 with SIIS and CISAC senior fellow Stephen J.
Biological Security in a Changed World
September 2001
The horrifying events of 11 September 2001 serve notice that civilization will confront severe challenges in the twenty-first century.
Microbe Warfare Hides the Enemy
August 2001
STANFORD, Calif.- For the past seven years, the United States has been negotiating a verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, hoping to put teeth into the convention's...
News
Face facts: New York Times op-ed by CISAC's Lawrence Wein
December 2006
"Pandemic influenza is probably the world's most serious near-term public health threat," CISAC's Lawrence M.
Roundtable Forum - Anxious Times: Seeing Beyond a World of Perpetual Threats
September 2006
Stanford President John Hennessy hosted a timely and important Reunion Homecoming roundtable examining "Anxious Times: Seeing Beyond a World of Perpetual Threats," on October 14.
Events
International Disease Surveillance and Global Security
May 11, 2001
Professor Joshua Lederberg, a research geneticist, is Sackler Foundation Scholar, President-emeritus at The Rockefeller University in New York, and a consulting professor of the Institute for...
Effective Policies to Control BSE (Mad Cow Disease)
June 7, 2005
Cellular prion protein (PrPC) is present in the healthy adult brain. It is a presumably essential membrane protein but its cellular function is unclear.
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...
English
People
Stephen P. Luby Senior Fellow Professor, Medicine, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy)