CISAC's work is organized around formal research projects as well as broader themes involving collaboration among individual scholars. The Center's research and track-two diplomacy address the following areas of concern, which often share interdisciplinary connections: Cybersecurity Threats and the Future of the Internet; Governance, Organizations, and Security; Health and the Environment; Migration and Transnational Flows; Nuclear Security and Risk; and Terrorism, Insurgency, and Homeland Security.

Governance, Organizations & Security

Conflict resolution and peacekeeping | Constitutional law | Cyber security | Disaster response | Global governance and institutions | Global justice | Human rights | National intelligence | Negotiation | Organizations | Political reform | State-building

Health & the Environment

Biosecurity | Energy security | Health policy | Nuclear energy | Oil | Pandemics and global responses

Migration & Transnational Flows

Globalization | Human trafficking | Immigration | International and regional alliances | Transnational threats

Nuclear Security & Risk

Arms control negotiation | Missile defense | Missile proliferation | Nuclear forces | Nuclear history | Nuclear nonproliferation | Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty | Nuclear policy | Nuclear power | Nuclear safety and security

Terrorism, Insurgency & Homeland Security

Afghanistan war and reconstruction | Biosecurity | Civil wars | Conflict resolution and peacekeeping | Cyber security | Disaster response | Iraq war and reconstruction | Military assistance | NATO | Terrorism and counterterrorism