The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Policy Analysis
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...
Defense Investment: A Strategy for the 1990s
December 1989
The national security strategy of the United States since World War II has changed frequently during the course of eight administrations and two wars.
Defense Resource Allocation in the 1990s: A Rational Approach
July 1990
This paper addresses the steps that the United States should take to insure the continuation of its position of influence and involvement in world commerce and geopolitics in light of the...
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...
U.S. Military and Civil Infrastructure Protection: Restrictions and Discretion under the Posse Comitatus Act, The
November 1999
This article sets out the constraints of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (the “Act”), which generally prohibits active enforcement of civilian laws by the military, and describes the discretion of...
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.
News
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...
CISAC co-director's arms control talks simulation teaches real-world diplomacy skills
June 2004
When Professor Scott D.
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.
The FBI in Historical Perspective
October 9, 2007
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is the well-known scholar of U.S.
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
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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.
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