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Pakistan's Foreign Policy Calibration
May 2013
Following Pakistan's historic elections held in May 2013, CISAC Visiting Scholar Rifaat Hussein discusses next steps for Islamabad's foreign policy, particularly in relations with India, a new...
Governing Security: The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies
November 2012
Description from Stanford University Press:The impact of public law depends on how politicians secure control of public organizations, and how these organizations in turn are used to define...
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
December 2011
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex...
Leaders and International Conflict
September 2011
An Editorial Review of Leaders and International Conflict from Amazon.com: "Chiozza and Goemans seek to explain why and when political leaders decide to initiate international crises and wars.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Promising Start Despite Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Animosity
January 2011
Recent breakdowns in American national security have exposed the weaknesses of the nation's vast overlapping security and foreign policy bureaucracy and the often dysfunctional interagency process....
Beyond the HSC/NSC Merger: Integrating States and Localities into Homeland Security Policymaking
January 2009
The most critical issue in merging the Homeland Security Council (HSC) and the National Security Council (NSC) is one that has received the least attention.
Reform, Don't Merge, the Homeland Security Council
January 2009
A growing number of scholars argue that the new administration should overturn a key decision by President George W.
The Department of Defense and the Problem of Mega-Catastrophes
December 2007
The terrible wake-up call of 9/11 brought homeland security and homeland defense into full focus for a nation ill-prepared for the threat of transnational terrorism.
Color Bind: Lessons from the Failed Homeland Security Advisory System
October 2007
An effective terrorism alert system in a federal government has one central task: to motivate actors to take costly protective measures.
Thoughts on the Day After
April 2007
This paper analyzes what might be expected to happen if a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in a U.S. city; the example used for this analysis is San Francisco.
Homeland Security: A New Strategic Paradigm?
December 2006
How has the threat of catastrophic terrorism reshaped the strategic environment?
Crisis in Bureaucracy: Homeland Security and the Political Design of Legal Mandates
October 2006
Policymakers fight over bureaucratic structure because it helps shape the legal interpretations and regulatory decisions of agencies through which modern governments operate.
Terror and Beauty - The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism
September 2005
Concepts and techniques from mathematics--specifically, from lattice theory and reflexive theory--have already been applied to counterterrorism and computer security problems.
America the Vulnerable: How our Government is Failing to Protect us from Terrorism
December 2004
Arguing for the primary role of homeland security, Council on Foreign Relations fellow Stephen Flynn describes a nation living on borrowed time.
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform
February 2004
For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they still?
Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000
December 2003
Twice in the winter of 1999-2000, citizens of the Russian Federation flocked to their neighborhood voting stations and scratched their ballots in an atmosphere of uncertainty, rancor, and fear....
Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Success
December 2003
This article discusses how two decades of economic reforms have intensified popular unrest and redefined the composition, interests and political attitudes of China's ever more complex social...
Mozambique: A Fading U.N. Success Story
January 2002
As Mozambique enters its tenth year of peace following a brutal and destructive civil war, the signs of continued democratic transformation and pro-market economic reform appear rosy, at least at...
State-Building and State Breakdown in Russia
December 2001
The book chapter is a revised and updated version of "Asymmetrical Federalism and State Breakdown in Russia," which originally was published in 1999 in Post-Soviet Affairs.
Strategic Stability to the Year 2000
July 1996
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held at the Center for International Security and Arms Control in May 1996.
Regionalism, Federalism and the Russian Elections
February 1996
Political stability in Russia requires greater coordination between national and regional interests.
New Is Not Yet Born: Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa, The
December 1994
In April 1994, black and white South Africans for the first time will vote for a nonracial government.
Soviet Defense Conversion - Problems and Opportunities
September 1991
In August 1991, the people of Moscow and Leningrad demonstrated to the world that democracy is an idea whose time had come for the Soviet Union.
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Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
Michael Tomz Affiliated Faculty, CDDRL and CISAC Professor, Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science 