The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Culture
Scholarly Publications
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Promising Start Despite Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Animosity
January 2011
Recent breakdowns in American national security have exposed the weaknesses of the nation's vast overlapping security and foreign policy bureaucracy and the often dysfunctional interagency process....
Does Soft Power Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Student Exchange Programs 1980-2006
January 2010
Democratic governance depends not only on the building of democratic institutions but also on citizens' knowledge about how these institutions should function in their everyday lives.
Between Assertiveness and Insecurity: Russian Elite Attitudes and the Russia-Georgia Crisis
October 2007
Gail Lapidus discusses the content and sources of Russian elite perspectives on international affairs.
Other Publications
King David
November 2012
In this blog post for Foreign Policy, Zegart discusses how the military's organizational and operational culture clashes with that of intelligence agencies.
Japan’s culture: Culprit of the nuclear accident?
September 2012
In this article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Toshihiro Higuchi, historian and 2011-2012 CISAC fellow, explains how the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident, contrary to the opinions of...
The false promise of the nation-state
September 2011
Emerging nation-states like Libya and Palestine are constrained by local elites integration in socio-economic networks.
News
How Stanford Scholars Are Teaching the Next Generation About 9/11
September 2021
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, four Stanford scholars and leading experts in national security, terrorism and contemporary conflict – Condoleezza Rice, Amy Zegart, Martha Crenshaw and Lisa Blaydes...
Award-winning authors to discuss writing about war at Stanford Live event
June 2015
Poet Natasha Trethewey and fiction writer Phil Klay will read selections from their works and join Stanford political scientist Scott Sagan in conversation on June 30 at Bing Concert Hall.
Eikenberry: Humanities are key to foreign policy
January 2015
Karl Eikenberry, a William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at FSI, believes the humanities belong at the center of American foreign policy. The retired U.S.
Events
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Secrecy, Security, and Oversight of Targeted Killing Operations
June 4, 2015
Abstract: Governments around the world have been targeting and killing individuals to prevent them from committing terror attacks or other atrocities.
Cold War Internationalism: The Case of Labor
April 15, 2014
Sandrine Kott was educated in France (Paris), Germany (Bielefeld and Berlin) and the USA (New York).