🎧 As global alliances shift and conflict reshapes the international order, how is Beijing responding? @orianamastro.bsky.social joined The Foreign Affairs Interview to explore China's strategy and what it means for U.S. policy. @aparc.stanford.edu www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/wha...

What China Thinks It Can Gain From a Disordered World

A Conversation With Oriana Skylar Mastro

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From NATO's evolving approach to China to nuclear security and South Asian strategic stability, CISAC Fellow Sitara Noor shares insights on the security challenges shaping today's geopolitical landscape. cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/fellows...

Fellowship Spotlight: Sitara Noor

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

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Is international law actually designed to hold states accountable? @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social of @stanfordcisac.bsky.social discusses what international law can and cannot do in a moment of mounting global crises, and why the system is more about political mobilization, legitimacy, and restraint.

International Law, Crimes, and Accountability

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

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A new article from CISAC postdoc Kevin Bustamante explores how Merze Tate challenged conventional balance-of-power theory, arguing that race and empire were central to global politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please join us in welcoming our 2026-2027 fellows! These scholars will spend the academic year generating new knowledge across a range of topics that can help all of us build a safer world. cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/cisac-n...

CISAC Names 2026-2027 Fellows

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...

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In a new @foreignaffairs.com article, CISAC lecturer Rose Gottemoeller examines how Russia’s nuclear coercion has tested long-held assumptions about strategic stability and what it means for the future of global security. www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/stra...

The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence

And the coming crisis in strategic stability.

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The deadline is quickly approaching to get applications in! Make sure to apply by June 8.

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The CISAC Fellowship program is expanding for the 2026–2027 academic year, with applications now open for two new fellowship opportunities! The deadline to apply is June 8, 2026. Click here for more information and how to apply⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/cisac-fellow...

Next week: "Book Talk: Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations after the Cold War" with Rose Gottemoeller. RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/book-...

Book Talk: Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and

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Next week: "Polarization and International Politics" with Rachel Myrick RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/polar...

Polarization and International Politics | Rachel Myrick

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Next week: "Book Talk | Nuclear Weapons: An International History" with David Holloway. RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/book-...

Book Talk: An International History of Nuclear Weapons | David Holloway

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Next week: "Can Law and Ethics Limit Harm to Civilians in War? Evidence from the U.S. Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq" with @andrewmbell.bsky.social RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/can-l...

Can Law and Ethics Limit Harm to Civilians in War? Evidence from the U.S

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These days, most of my reading takes place digitally, but it’s always a great feeling to hold in your hands a physical copy of something you contributed to. Thank you to @tnsr.org for publishing Herb Lin and my co-edited round table on emerging technologies and strategic stability.

Two late breaking and exciting new opportunities for postdoctoral work on AI and international security policy at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social!

Stanford CISAC@stanfordcisac.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The CISAC Fellowship program is expanding for the 2026–2027 academic year, with applications now open for two new fellowship opportunities! The deadline to apply is June 8, 2026. Click here for more information and how to apply⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/cisac-fellow...

Next week: "Coethnic Counterinsurgents: Explaining Security Force Ethnic Composition in Wartime" with Dipin Kaur. RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/coeth...

Coethnic Counterinsurgents: Explaining Security Force Ethnic Composition in

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Weren't able to attend? Watch the seminar on our Youtube channel as Luke Kemp, Stephen Luby, and Scott Sagan explore what history reveals about societal collapse, and what it means for our future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQMD...

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

YouTube video by CISAC Stanford (CISACStanford)

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Next week: "Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse — A Book Talk and Expert Discussion" with @lukekemp.bsky.social and discussion with Stephen Luby and Scott Sagan RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/golia...

"It was answering questions that I hadn’t thought to ask it, with this level of deviousness and cunning that I just found chilling,” said senior fellow David Relman to the @nytimes.com on AI chatbots & the growing risk they could lower barriers to biological weapons www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons

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📘 OUT NOW | "Security Through Cooperation" by CISAC lecturer Rose Gottemoeller explores how U.S.-Russia cooperation, from nuclear policy to space, shaped global security and what it might take to rebuild it today. Get your copy today ⤵️ www.sup.org/books/politi...

Security Through Cooperation | Stanford University Press

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...

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Next week: "Women in Peace Negotiations: Powerful Advocates or Powerless Actors?" with Elizabeth Good RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/women...

Women in Peace Negotiations: Powerful Advocates or Powerless Actors?

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Next week: "Wartime Cyber Resilience Lessons from Ukraine: the Case of Estonia and Its Wider Implications" with Merle Maigre RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/warti...

Wartime Cyber Resilience Lessons from Ukraine: the Case of Estonia and Its

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Next week: "Do States Fight Wars Because of Religion? I Don't Think So." with Ron Hassner RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/do-st...

Do States Fight Wars Because of Religion? I Don't Think So. | Ron Hassner

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The "loyalty over competence" trap. Rose McDermott (@watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social) explains how personalist dictatorships suffer from a lack of institutional constraints and a surplus of sycophants—leading to flawed advice and strategic failure.

Next week: "Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse — A Book Talk and Expert Discussion" with @lukekemp.bsky.social and discussion with Stephen Luby and Scott Sagan RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/golia...

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse — A Book Talk

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@htrinkunas.bsky.social and Herbert Lin examine how emerging capabilities—both nuclear and non-nuclear—upend the requirements for mutual deterrence and create new incentives for preemption. tnsr.org/roundtable/e...

Introduction: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Strategic Stability - Texas National Security Review

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...

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Next week: "Dead Hand of Revenge: Decapitation Threat and the Design of Nuclear Command and Control System" with @xunchaoz.bsky.social RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/dead-...

Dead Hand of Revenge: Decapitation Threat and the Design of Nuclear Command

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The entirety of our Strategic Stability Special Issue is now live! In it, we bring together leading experts to examine how rapid technological change and global shifts are challenging the search for international peace. 🧵 #StrategicStability #NationalSecurity #Defense

Southcom’s illegal boat strikes began on September 2 and have killed 164 people. We now have data through March about cocaine seized at US borders. Cocaine seized during 7 months before the strikes: 38,059 pounds Seized during 7 months since the strikes: 44,186 pounds Supplies steady. No impact.

Next week: "Criminal War and Peace" with Sarah Daly RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/crimi...

Next week: "From Estonian Uranium to Soviet Arsenal: Binding Territory Through Infrastructure and Demographics in Sillamäe, 1944-1955" with Alexandra Sukalo RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/eston...

From Estonian Uranium to Soviet Arsenal: Binding Territory Through

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Next week: "Book Talk: Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America’s Future Against a Rising China" with Charles Glaser. RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/book-...

Book Talk: Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America’s Future Against a

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Next week: "The State and the Soldier: A Conversation with the Author" with @kschake.bsky.social RSVP here ⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/state...

The State and the Soldier: A Conversation with the Author | Kori Schake

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