The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Negotiation
Scholarly Publications
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
January 2017
Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy?
Questions for the presidential candidates on nuclear terrorism, proliferation, weapons policy, and energy
September 2016
Stanford expert Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nuclear weapons and energy questions that journalists and citizens should consider asking the 2016 presidential candidates.
Other Publications
Negotiation and Strategy: Understanding Sanctions Effectiveness
January 2010
Despite extensive and ongoing debate about economic sanctions, policy makers disagree about their effectiveness.
Unconventional Partners: Australia-India Cooperation in Reducing Nuclear Dangers
October 2009
What is the problem?Progress towards reducing nuclear dangers is currently hampered by entrenched divisions between Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty members and non-members, and between Western and...
U.S and Turkey: Rebuilding a Fractured Alliance, The
July 2006
As a model of a democratizing and secular Muslim state that has been a stalwart ally for more than 50 years, Turkey is of enormous strategic importance to the United States and Europe, especially...
News
Students simulate White House war-room drama in class born of Ethics & War series
June 2012
Stanford undergraduate and law students simulate Cabinet war-room meeting on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike against Syria for The Ethics and Law of War class, which grew out of the two-year...
Sagan wins Gerner teaching award
April 2008
The International Studies Association has awarded CISAC Co-Director Scott Sagan the 2008 Deborah "Misty" Gerner Innovative Teaching in International Studies Award for his simulation exercise that...
CISAC scholar leads newly endowed, expanded International Policy Studies program
February 2007
Starting next fall, Stanford's 25-year-old International Policy Studies (IPS) master's program will double in length and expand its interdisciplinary scope to train a new generation of graduates...
Events
The Prague Agenda after the Iran Deal
December 10, 2015
Abstract: President Obama’s Prague Agenda – moving toward a world without nuclear weapons – has been stalled for several years, due to the downturn in U.S.-Russian relations, Congressional...
Possible Nuclear Agreement with Iran
June 9, 2015
Due to the overwhelming response we received for this event and to our space constraints, registration is now closed.
Human Welfare, War and Sanctions in Iraq under Saddam Hussein
June 5, 2014
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Abstract: Who bears the costs associated with the foreign policy decisions of dictators?
Projects
Implementation of Peace Agreements in Civil Wars
September 2019
Until recently, analysts of civil war focused their attention on the negotiation of peace agreements and paid scant attention to the implementation process.
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