A Conversation With Oriana Skylar Mastro

CISAC Fellow Sitara Noor discusses NATO, nuclear security, South Asian stability, and the experiences that have shaped her career in international security.

Podcast Episode · Lawyering Without Law · July 10 · 49m

Racial Hierarchy and the Balance of Power: Race War in Merze Tate’s International Thought

The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) is pleased to welcome the fellows who will be joining us for the 2026-27 academic year. These scholars will spend the academic year genera...

And the coming crisis in strategic stability.

YouTube video by CISAC Stanford (CISACStanford)

Russian officials and experts often voice the view that the United States was hell-bent on undermining, even destroying Russia during the turbulent period of the Soviet breakup thirty years ago. The p...

Emerging technologies developed since the end of the Cold War—and their proliferation to new actors—call into question the prospects for strategic stability in the twenty-first century. Strategic stab...

The Center for International Security and Cooperation is part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

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Companion Report to “Willing Accomplices: Gazprom and Rosneft’s Role in the Transport and Indoctrination of Ukraine’s Children” The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab

Discourses on nuclear weapons and military applications of artificial intelligence (AI) portray them either as apocalyptic super weapons, posing catastrophic risks, or as indispensable to states’ n...

AI tools can generate realistic deepfakes, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts at scale, that could flood analysts during crises with large volumes of information that overload their capabilities...

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January 7, 12:00 pm PT

Van and Lyle are joined by nuclear weapons and disarmament expert Scott Sagan to discuss A House of Dynamite, the 2025 political thriller that imagines nuclear catastrophe not as spectacle or obvious ...

The readiness of America’s warfighters depends on the cybersecurity of operational technology that is largely unregulated.