The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Terrorism
Scholarly Publications
Degradation of Biological Weapons Agents in the Environment: Implications for Terrorism Response
December 2005
We investigate the impact on effective terrorism response of the viability degradation of biological weapons agents in the environment.
Comparative Analysis of Approaches to the Protection of Fissile Materials, A
May 1998
From the preface: "Events in recent years have caused heightened concern about the security of weapons-usable nuclear material.
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...
Other Publications
Ending the Threat of Nuclear Attack
May 1997
Late last year, we noted the tenth anniversary of what was probably the most remarkable of all the meetings between an American president and his Soviet counterpart, the Reykjavik Summit of October...
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.
Civil Liberties and Security in Cyberspace
August 2000
Societies are becoming more dependent on computer networks and therefore more vulnerable to cyber crime and terrorism.
News
United States and Russia in isolation
May 2004
Any strategic vision in the war on terrorism requires broad international cooperation.
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...
Faulty terror report card
May 2004
An opinion piece co-authored by CISAC affiliated faculty member David Laitin, published May 17 in the Washington Post, argues that a recent State Department report on international terrorism is...
Events
The Role of Technology in Fighting Cybercrime and Terrorism
February 15, 2000
Please feel free to bring a bag lunch.
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.
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
Managing Global Insecurity Project (MGI)
Nearly 20 years into the post-cold war era, the existing multilateral architecture of international organizations, treaties, and alliances shows signs of acute distress.
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.
English
People
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
