The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Policy Analysis
Scholarly Publications
Scarcity in abundance: the challenges of promoting energy access in the Southern African region
October 2018
Abstract: The paper deals with the challenges of energy access, efficiency and security as essential conditions to improve people's living in the Southern African region.
The New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform
March 2016
China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this, previous coverage portrays events as determined almost entirely by Beijing.
US-China Relations in the Shadow of the Future
August 2015
This article applies some of the concepts developed at the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN) in an effort to see how the risk of war might be mitigated.
Other Publications
Atomic Homefront: a film about struggling to live with Manhattan Project radioactive waste
June 2018
Abstract: This commentary reviews and discusses HBO’s new documentary, Atomic Homefront, which shows how communities are still struggling to live with radiation from radioactive waste generated...
Policy: Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository
January 2016
For the past 15 years, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has stored transuranic waste from the US nuclear-defense programme.
动荡世界中的安全挑战:更少敌人、更多挑战和焦虑
August 2015
A version of this paper, "Security Challenges in a Turbulent World: Fewer Enemies, More Challenges, and Greater Anxiety," delivered at the International Areas Studies Symposium at the University of...
News
A Nuclear Strike Should Require More than One Person’s Order
November 2020
Donald Trump has proven to be volatile, erratic, vengeful and prone to angry outbursts. Last week, as the vote count pushed his reelection bid out of sight, he reportedly fell into a dark mood.
Decades of Being Wrong About China Should Teach Us Something
June 2019
Thirty years ago this week, I watched the news from Beijing and started shredding my bedding.
How Ukraine’s Comedian-Candidate Could Disappoint the Kremlin
April 2019
If voters in Ukraine elect television star Volodymyr Zelensky president Sunday, as seems almost certain, that should please the Kremlin, which in the course of supporting rebels in the eastern...
Events
Hard Truths in Syria: America Can’t Do More With Less, and It Shouldn’t Try
May 1, 2019
Abstract: Sound strategy requires alignment of ends, ways, and means.
NATO’s Response to the Changing Security Environment
March 18, 2019
Abstract: Ambassador Koster will address the following political-military issues during his lecture.
Is There a Trump Doctrine in Foreign Policy?
October 4, 2018
Abstract: Many believe that President Donald J. Trump lacks a coherent worldview informing his foreign policy decisions.
Projects
Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union
Ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union, and their potential for triggering serious interstate conflicts, pose a major threat to regional and international security in the years ahead.
English
Multimedia
Remarks at MIT: Renewal or Retrenchment - U.S. Grand Strategy in a Volatile World
June 2015
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, a distinguished fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, presented remarks at the MIT Senior Congressional and Executive Office Branch Seminar, "Renewal or Retrenchment: U.S.
People
