Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland

News

• 05/04/2010 - CISSM hosted a lunch talk by Russian Amb. Sergey I. Kislyak.  The event was part of the CISSM Forum series.

• 04/30/2010 - Russian students from the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies visited CISSM as part of the Collaborative Education and Cooperative Security project. Read the full trip report.

• 04/26/2010 - CISSM co-hosted an African Security Panel on April 23, which featured CISSM Research Fellow Daniel Levine, Graduate Assistant Michael Kniss, and others.

• 03/08/2010 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded CISSM a $350,000 grant in support of its Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Program.

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Recent Publications

• Robert D. Lamb, "How Nonstate Actors Govern in Medellín, Colombia, 1984-2009: Legitimacy and Governance amid Complex Violence", (CISSM Policy Brief, August 2010)
• Yun Zhou, "The Security Implications of China's Nuclear Energy Expansion", (CISSM Policy Brief, July 2010)
• Michael Kniss, "Walking Kenya Back from the Brink: A Micro-Level Study of Horizontal Inequity and Civil Conflict Prevention", (CISSM Working Paper, June 2010)
• Daniel Levine, "Peacekeeper Impartiality: Standards, Processes, and Operations", (CISSM Working Paper, April 2010)
• Michael Fitzsimmons, "Governance, Identity, and Counterinsurgency Strategy", (CISSM Policy Brief, March 2010)
• John Steinbruner, "Prudent Regulation of Geoengineering", (Summary paper prepared for the National Commission on Energy Policy, Task Force on Geoengineering , March 2010)
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CISSM Forums

• Sep 09 2010
  "Nuclear Dangers: A Strange Turn of History", Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operationg Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), MSPP Alum
   
• Sep 16 2010
  "Legal Regulation of Torture", Gregory Craig, lawyer, former White House Counsel to President Obama
   

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Courses

• PUAF 720: International Security Policy, John Steinbruner, (Syllabus, August 2010)

• PUAF 798D: U.S. Defense Policy and Planning, Michael Fitzsimmons, (Syllabus, August 2010)

• PUAF 798M: Readings in Arms Control and Nonproliferation Policy, Nancy Gallagher, (Syllabus, August 2010)

• PUAF 798Q: Ethics of War and Conflict, Daniel Levine, (Syllabus, August 2010)

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