The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Foreign Policy
Scholarly Publications
Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy
October 1998
This report is a product of the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group, a nine-month long collaboration of faculty from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford...
China's Telecommunications: Present and Future
June 1997
By the end of 1995, China had built the world's ten largest telecommunications networks and the industry was growing at a faster rate than any other sector of the booming Chinese economy.
Claim-Making and Large-Scale Historical Processes in the Late Twentieth Century
June 1997
"Claim-Making and Large-Scale Historical Processes in the Late Twentieth Century," held March 7-9, 1997, at Stanford University, was an experimental workshop to preview the dimensions on the eve of...
Other Publications
High-Performance Computing, National Security Applications, and Export Control Policy at the Close of the 20th Century
May 1998
If high-performance computing (HPC) export control policy is to be effective, three basic premises must hold: There exist problems of great national security importance that require high...
Industrial Demilitarization, Privatization, Economic Reform, and Investment in Russia: Analysis and Recommendations
March 1993
Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) started a project on defense conversion in the Soviet Union in early 1990.
Old Law for a New World? The Applicability of International Law to Information Warfare
February 1997
The development of "information warfare" presents international legal issues that will complicate nations' efforts both to execute and to respond to certain information warfare attacks,...
News
CISAC fellow wins political science dissertation award
November 2004
Helen Kinsella, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, won the American Political Science Association's 2004 Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral...
North Korea's nukes
October 2003
A panel of five foreign policy experts, including CISAC Co-director %people1% and SIIS Senior Fellow %people2%, debated issues of North Korea and nuclear weapons on October 17, 2003 in a discussion...
CISAC's Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall selected as Carnegie Scholar
May 2004
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior research scholar with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at the Stanford Institute for International Studies and a senior adviser to...
Old Events
Counterinsurgency Without Killing: Public Goods and Violence in the Iraqi Civil War
November 8, 2007
Jacob Shapiro (speaker) is a CISAC postdoctoral fellow. His primary research interest is the organization of terrorism and insurgency.
Leaders, Accountability and Foreign Policy in Non-Democracies
October 25, 2007
Jessica Weeks is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, the 2007-2008 Zukerman Fellow and a pre-doctoral fellow at CISAC, and the Teaching Assistant for the...
Open Source Intelligence
October 29, 2007
This presentation provides an overview of the history of US satellite-based reconnaissance as has been publicly revealed by the US Government to date.
Projects
Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy
As part of a response to growing government concern over the threat of cyber attacks directed against critical national infrastructures, the National Security Agency (NSA) contracted with Stanford...
English
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
Enhancing Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540
In Resolution 1540, the United Nations Security Council, acting under its Chapter VII power to adopt measures that are legally binding on all U.N.
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People
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
