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Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

http://www.cissm.umd.edu

Aims

The CISSM is a research centre that pursues policy-oriented scholarship on major issues facing the United States in the global arena. The Center is composed of full-time staff, research scholars, visiting scholars and graduate research fellows. Many of its members are also professors in the Maryland School of Public Affairs.

Activities

The center conducts research on a range of issues, including the use of traditional security instruments - such as arms control, peacekeeping, and the use of force - in the post-Cold War context; the nexus between international economics and security; cooperation and conflict between the United States and its allies; and the process of foreign policymaking, including the role of particular institutions and the impact of public attitudes. The CISSM also conducts active projects. Current projects include the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Project, which includes the Controlling Dangerous Pathogens Project; the National Intelligence Council Project on the Evolution of the Nation-state; the National Security Council and U.S. Foreign Policymaking; the Jerusalem Project; and the Project on a New U.S.-European Dialogue.

Publications and other Resources

The Website lists a large range of publications including papers, occasional papers and commentaries all of which require ordering at are at varying costs. There is a small amount of downloadable publications on the website in PDF format at no cost dispersed amongst the different program's particular pages (eg. Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security).