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Governance, Organizations, and Security
Governance and organization issues affect government agencies' ability to transcend cultural or bureaucratic problems that can bedevil security policy. They can also impact nations' ability to cooperate with one another. Understanding and addressing these issues is a major priority for CISAC.
Events & Presentations
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Mobilizing Public Law: The Lost Wartime Origins of American Administrative Law
November 29, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Shiri Krebs
Audio transcript available 
US Power, the Emerging Economies, and International Order
November 1, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Bruce Jones, Stephen J. Stedman Audio transcript available - Thirteen Days -- and Fifty Years Later: What Have We Learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 22, 2012 CISAC, FSI Stanford Special Event
David Holloway, Scott D. Sagan, Strobe Talbott, Joe Cirincione
paper, flyer available 
Forecasting Drug Violence in Guatemala: An Application of a Probabilistic Tactical Warning Model
June 7, 2012 Social Science Seminar
David Blum, C.J. Álvarez
Public Goods Provision and the Efficacy of Governance
May 18, 2012 - May 19, 2012 CDDRL, FSI Stanford Conference
Beatriz Magaloni paper, conference agenda available- WAR: Ethical Challenges on the Horizon
May 16, 2012 Stanford Ethics and War Series
Charles Dunlap, Scott D. Sagan, Debra Satz, Scotty McLennan flyer available - Defending Critical Infrastructure Systems
May 14, 2012 Science Seminar
Dave Alderson 
Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Civil War: Insights from the Philippines
April 26, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Joseph Felter, James D. Fearon
Secretary or General? The U.N. Secretary-General's Diplomatic Interventions in International Conflicts
April 19, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Lonjezo Hamisi, Toshihiro Higuchi
Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
April 12, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Gil-li Vardi, Lynn Eden
Getting to Know You: Political Surveillance in the Soviet Union, 1939-1991
April 5, 2012 Social Science Seminar
Amir Weiner, David Holloway- Nunn, Hecker, Taubman: World's Most Pressing Nuclear Challenges
March 23, 2012 Panel Discussion
Siegfried S. Hecker, Sen. Sam Nunn, Philip Taubman Audio transcript available 
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Preventive Detentions in the Israeli Supreme Court
December 8, 2011 Seminar
Shiri Krebs, Catherine Baylin- US Policy Toward Afghanistan, What’s Next?
November 19, 2011 Panel Discussion
Anja Manuel, Dan Caldwell, Frederic Wehrey - Do Not Track: Technology, Policy, and Politics
October 17, 2011 Science Seminar
Jonathan Mayer 
"Presumed Guilty" and post-film discussion with the director
October 7, 2011 Conversation
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Beatriz Magaloni, Roberto Hernández flyer available- Violence, Drugs and Governance: Mexican Security in Comparative Perspective
October 3, 2011 - October 4, 2011 CDDRL, CISAC, FSI Stanford Conference
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Beatriz Magaloni 12 papers available 
Cancelled: 2011 Payne Distinguished Lecture: Improving Governance and Combating Drugs
October 3, 2011 FSI Stanford, CDDRL, CISAC Lecture Series
Karl Eikenberry, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Beatriz Magaloni
Payne Distinguished Lecture Series 2009 Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence and National Security, Lecture 3: Anticipating Opportunities: Using Intelligence to Shape the Future
October 21, 2009 FSI Stanford, CISAC Lecture Series
Thomas Fingar
Audio & Video transcripts available paper available- 2009 Current Strategy Forum
June 16, 2009 - June 17, 2009 Forum
Thomas Fingar 
The United States and Korea: Toward a Shared Future
June 2, 2009 Forum
Gi-Wook Shin, Thomas Fingar, David Straub, Daniel C. Sneider, Scott Snyder, Donald Macintyre, Hyug Baeg Im, Young Kwan Yoon, Hyung O Kim 
paper, 5 presentations, conference agenda available
Payne Distinguished Lecture Series 2009 Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence and National Security, Lecture 2: Spies Collect Data, Analysts Provide Insight
May 19, 2009 FSI Stanford Lecture Series
Thomas Fingar Audio & Video transcripts available paper available
On Common Ground
April 13, 2009 Conference
Thomas Fingar Audio & Video transcripts available flyer available- Poorly Governed Resource-Dependent States: Policy Options for the New Administration
March 13, 2009 CDDRL Workshop
Basil Zavoico, Desha Girod, Ian Gary, James D. Fearon, Karin Lissakers, Kevin Morrison, Macartan Humphreys, Michael Ross, Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin, Petter Nore, Brian Phipps, Stephen Haber, Stephen D. Krasner, Corinna Gilfillan 8 papers, presentation, conference agenda available 
Payne Distinguished Lecture Series 2009 Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence and National Security, Lecture 1: ''Myths, Fears, and Expectations''
March 11, 2009 FSI Stanford, CISAC Lecture
Thomas Fingar Audio & Video transcripts available paper available
The United States and the Islamic World in 2025
February 11, 2009 FSI Stanford, CISAC Directors' Seminar
Thomas Fingar Audio transcript available - U.S. Foreign Policy and International Order After George W. Bush
February 7, 2008 Social Science Seminar
Stephen J. Stedman, Stephen D. Krasner - Emerging Superpowers: Influence and Supremacy in the 21st Century
January 26, 2008 Special Event
Michael A. McFaul, William J. Perry, Stephen J. Stedman Audio transcript available - Leaders, Accountability and Foreign Policy in Non-Democracies
October 25, 2007 Social Science Seminar
Jessica L. Weeks