Knowledge to Build a Safer World
A message from the CISAC co-directors

The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) is Stanford University’s hub for researchers tackling some of the world's most pressing security and international cooperation problems. Learn more from CISAC Co-Directors Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Siegfried S. Hecker. Read more »

'The Architecture of the World'
Cybersecurity talk draws business and political leaders to Stanford CISAC

Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation brought together lawmakers and Silicon Valley industry leaders to discuss what President Obama has called "one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces": cyberattacks.

How Weather Changes the World
Stanford researchers come together to discuss the environment and security

What is the relationship between security and the environment? In an effort to spur discussion on this critical topic in international affairs, Stanford CISAC and the Woods Institute for the Environment brought together historians, political scientists, engineers, economists, physicists and other researchers from throughout the university.

January 24, 2011
Historian Edith Sheffer discusses the barrier between East and West Germany

January 18, 2012
Stanford's Fingar examines China's development issues

January 12, 2012
Stanford scholars weigh in on Iran's nuclear program

January 6, 2012
North Korea watchers look at Pyongyang's nuclear trajectory

January 3, 2012
Philip Taubman's new book examines an attempt to abolish nuclear weapons +HTML+