Center for International Security and Cooperation - CISAC

http://cisac.stanford.edu/docs/about_cisac

CISAC's mission is to produce policy-relevant research on international security problems, to teach and train the next generation of security specialists, and to influence policymaking in international security.

The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), is an interdisciplinary university-based research and training center addressing some of the world's most difficult security problems with policy-relevant solutions. The Center is committed to scholarly research and to giving independent advice to governments and international organizations. In that effort, both parts of our name are crucial: we seek international security and we recognize that cooperation among peoples and governments is often the best way to achieve this.

CISAC is co-directed by Siegfried Hecker, professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, and Scott Sagan, professor of political science.