CISSM - Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland

News

09/23/2009 - Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian diplomat and a former fellow of the CISSM-affiliated Maryland Seminar on Foreign Policymaking, was recently selected to be director general of UNESCO.
08/24/2009 - The American Political Science Association has awarded CISSM senior fellow Catherine McArdle Kelleher its prestigious Hubert H. Humphery Award in recognition of her years of public service. The award was presented at the association’s annual fall conference.
07/12/2009 - Jonas Siegel, the former editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has joined CISSM as a research associate.
03/23/2009 - 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
more news...

Michael Kniss, "Intertwined Inequities: Micro-Level Economic Determinants of Civil Conflict", (CISSM Working Paper, November 2009)
Nancy Gallagher, A Reassurance-Based Approach to Space Security, (International Security Research and Outreach Programme, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, October 2009)
Catherine Kelleher and Scott L. Warren, "Getting to Zero Starts Here: Tactical Nuclear Weapons", (Arms Control Today, October 2009)
John Steinbruner, "Security Policy and the Question of Fundamental Change", (CISSM Working Paper, October 2009)
Tim Gulden, "The Security Challenges of Climate Change: Who is at Risk and Why?", (in Matthias Ruth and María E. Ibarrarán (eds), Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. © 2009, September 2009)
more publications...

Feb 11 2010

"Progress and Lessons Learned: The War in Iraq", Joseph Christoff, Director, International Affairs and Trade, GAO
Feb 18 2010

"The Last Time We Were at Global Zero in Nuclear Weapons", George Quester, Prof. of Government and Politics, University of Maryland