The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Violence
Scholarly Publications
Uranium Africain, une histoire globale
April 2016
This is a 2016 French translation of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012), translated by Charlotte Nordmann and part of the series "L'Univers Historique."
State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
February 2013
Abstract After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, its twenty-seven successor states were charged with devising policies with respect to their ethnic minorities.
Dueling incentives : Sexual violence in Liberia and the politics of human rights advocacy
May 2012
Abstract Transnational advocacy organizations are influential actors in the international politics of human rights.
Other Publications
Should we be using the G-word in Burundi?
November 2015
The political crisis in Burundi is serious, but analogies to the Rwandan genocide are counter-productive.
Ask the Experts: Preventing Sexual Violence
June 2012
Former CISAC fellow Dara Cohen, currently an assistant professor at Harvard University, wrote a co-authored blog post for the Council on Foreign Relations, discussing how to prevent sexual violence...
Mexico needs laser focus in drug war
January 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow Ben Lessing explains how Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, may differ significantly from his predecessor in dealing with the country's drug war.
News
FSI’s Visiting Fellowship in Israel Studies Brings Or Rabinowitz to the Center for International Security and Cooperation
June 2022
Dr. Or Rabinowitz of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, whose research explores how nuclear technology interacts with decision-making, strategy, and diplomacy, will come to Stanford in the 2022-2023...
A Real War Story, in Drawings
June 2016
Scott Sagan decodes the haunting drawings of a Lakota chief who defeated George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Old Events
The moderates’ dilemma: obstacles to mobilization against Islamist extremism
August 29, 2017
Abstract: Why do moderate majorities often fail to coordinate opposition to extremist minorities?
Payment and Predation: The Politics Of Wages And Violence In the Congolese Army
March 10, 2016
Abstract: In fragile states, regimes must cultivate military forces strong enough to ward off external threats, but loyal enough to resist launching a coup.
‘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.
Projects
Empirical Studies of Conflict
The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) addresses critical challenges to international security through methodologically rigorous, evidence-based analyses of insurgency, civil war and...
English
Implementation of Peace Agreements in Civil Wars
July 2022
Until recently, analysts of civil war focused their attention on the negotiation of peace agreements and paid scant attention to the implementation process.
English
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