Recent Papers & Publications

John Steinbruner, "Security Policy and the Question of Fundamental Change", (CISSM Working Paper, May 2009)

David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner and Katherine Ricke, "The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming?", (Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2009)

John Steinbruner, "Engagement With Russia: Managing Risks, Repairing Rifts", (Arms Control Today, January 2009)

Elisa D. Harris, "Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Proposed International Biosecurity System", (in Uganda National Academy of Sciences, Promoting Biosafety and Biosecurity Within the Life Sciences: An International Workshop for East Africa, UNAS Press, 2008)

John Steinbruner, "Looking Back: Carter's 1978 Declaration and the Significance of Security Assurances", (Arms Control Today, October 2008)

Elisa D. Harris, "Killers in the Lab", (Op-ed, New York Times, 08/11/2008)

CISSM/PIPA Poll Results

What do the American and Russian publics think about the continued relevance of nuclear deterrence, a nuclear weapons-free world, using new weapons or new rules to protect satellites, and other arms control questions? Click here to find out.

News

From March 30 to April 7, 2009, CISSM hosted a group of faculty and students from Moscow’s Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies (ISKRAN). This visit was the 6th annual visit conducted as part of our joint Collaborative Education and Cooperative Security Project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to train the next generation of U.S. and Russian security experts.Click here to find out.

Steve Fetter, dean of the School of Public Policy for the past four years and Senior Fellow at CISSM, has been appointed assistant director at-large at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. He will be responsible for the areas of energy, climate change, and nuclear weapons. Click here to find out.

CISSM graduate student Robert Lamb has been awarded a 2009 fellowship from the Smith Richardson Foundation to finish fieldwork in Medellín, Colombia, on the relationship between legitimacy and violence.

The conclusions of Ivo Daalder and Mac Destler's new book, In the Shadow of the Oval Office (Simon and Schuster), are summarized in their Jan-Feb 2009 article in Foreign Affairs. Click here to find out.

Outreach & Education


CISSM Forum


Next Forum: Sep 03, 2009
Anja Kuznetsova, CISSM Open House

Spring 2009 CISSM Courses

PUAF698C: Intelligence, Policy Making and Politics, Nolte, Spring '09

PUAF699K: Civil Conflict and Terrorism, Steinbruner, Spring '09

PUAF720: International Security, Gallagher, Spring '09

PUAF780: The American Foreign Policy-Making Process, Destler, Spring '09

PUAF798O: Geopolitics of Oil, Kelleher, Spring '09

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