About UsOur Mission: The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) conducts research, sponsors courses, and promotes dialogue between policy analysts and practitioners.
Who We Are: CISSM is located at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and is directed by John Steinbruner. It is composed of full-time faculty and staff, researchers, post-doctoral fellows, graduate research assistants, and short-term visitors.
What We Do:
- the oversight of research with dangerous pathogens;
- the rules for regulating the use of space in the information age;
- the management of nuclear explosive materials - especially if reliance on nuclear energy grows in response to global warming; and
- the local dynamics of civil conflict and post-conflict reconstruction.
- Other research at CISSM includes studies of the National Security Council, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the future of intelligence analysis, and the development/inequality/insecurity nexus. Past CISSM projects include the Nuclear History Project; the Project on Rethinking Arms Control; and the Maryland-Tsukuba Project on U.S.-Japan Relations.
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Training the next generation of security experts: CISSM sponsors courses on the past, present, and future of global security policy. We collaborate with the Moscow-based Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies (ISKRAN) via videoconferences, exchange visits, and joint policy exercises to help MSPP and ISKRAN students learn to work together on shared security problems such as Iran’s nuclear program.
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The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) is a joint endeavor between CISSM and the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Policy Attitudes. PIPA studies U.S. and world opinion on issues such as non-proliferation, economic globalization, foreign aid and world hunger, global warming, and the war in Iraq. In fall 2007, CISSM and PIPA released reports on U.S. and Russian attitudes toward cooperative nuclear risk reduction proposals and rules for regulating military uses of space.
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CISSM Forum: Every Thursday during the semester, the Center sponsors a brown-bag lunchtime speaker series on current policy issues as diverse as "How Terrorism Ends," "The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement," "Advising the Iraqi Army," and "Financing Gender Equality."
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Visiting Scholars: CISSM has limited space to host visiting scholars whose research interests coincide with current projects at the Center and who have their own financial support. Click here to view the application guidelines.
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Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland