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Cheap fights, credible threats: The future of armed drones and coercion
February 2018
Drones are considered poor coercion tools: They cannot operate in contested airspace and they offer low-cost fights instead of more credible, costly signals.
Offensive Cyber Capabilities: To What Ends?
January 2018
Abstract: There is a growing interest in the use of offensive cyber capabilities (OCC) among states.
Jihadist Terrorist Plots in the United States
December 2017
Research brief: How plots come to fail or to be foiled is of great importance to the study of terrorism and to the development of counterterrorism policy.
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords - The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
November 2017
The sovereign state is frequently held up as the legitimate source of domestic order and an important provider of public goods in any society, regardless of regime type.
Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies
November 2017
Security studies scholarship on nuclear weapons is particularly prone to self-censorship.
Beyond regulatory capture: Coproducing expertise for critical infrastructure protection
September 2017
Complex industries such as petroleum production, civil aviation, and nuclear power produce “public risks” that are widely distributed and temporally remote, and thus tend to be ignored by the risk...
On Defining Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
July 2017
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has formulated an encompassing working definition of global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs) that reflects diverse sources of risk and mechanisms...
Countering Terrorism
July 2017
Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats—both domestic and foreign.
The unbearable lightness of luck. Three sources of overconfidence in the manageability of nuclear crises
July 2017
Overconfidence in the controllability of nuclear weapons creates danger. The passing of the last elite witness of the most dangerous nuclear crisis, i.e.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner
June 2017
This is a chapter in the second edition of The National Security Enterprise, a book edited by Roger Z.
A MOOC With Meaning
May 2017
Under the sponsorship of Stanford University, we designed a massive open online course (MOOC) to raise public consciousness about the past, present, and future dangers of nuclear weapons.
Japan's Shift in the Nuclear Debate: A Changing Identity?
May 2017
Sayuri Romei, a political scientist and predoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), has a new working paper that shows Japan is an increasingly...
On Cyber-Enabled Information/Influence Warfare and Manipulation
April 2017
CISAC's Herbet Lin and Jackie Kerr from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory write in this draft working paper that the United States has no peer competitors in conventional military power. ...
Structuring Cooperative Nuclear Risk Reduction Initiatives with China
April 2017
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker, Larry Brandt and Jason Reinhardt worked with Chinese nuclear organizations on issues involving radiological and nuclear terrorism.
When Science Brought Americans and Russians Together
April 2017
Siegfried Hecker describes the scientific collaboration that took place between Russian and American nuclear weapons laboratories following the end of the Cold War.
Uneasy Partnerships: China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform
April 2017
Uneasy Partnerships presents the analysis and insights of practitioners and scholars who have shaped and examined China's interactions with key Northeast Asian partners.
An Approach for Identifying and Analyzing Implicit Interactions in Distributed Systems
March 2017
Safety-critical system domains such as critical infrastructures, aerospace, automotive, and industrial manufacturing and control are becoming increasingly dependent on the use of distributed...
Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America
March 2017
Latin America experienced recurring episodes of populism, and of military reaction against populists, during the twentieth century, frequently ending in coups d’état.
A visit to Russia's secret nuclear labs
March 2017
In this essay, Siegfried Hecker describes a 1992 visit to nuclear facilities in the former Soviet Union.
Introduction to the special issue on strategic dimensions of offensive cyber operations
March 2017
Nations around the world recognize cybersecurity as a critical issue for public policy.
