Managing Across Boundaries
As byproducts of globalization, an increasing array of transnational challenges from WMD proliferation and the global drug trade to contemporary human slavery, small arms trafficking, and counterfeit intellectual property have become so widespread they threaten to overwhelm the capabilities of even well-intentioned governments to mitigate their destructive effects. Managing Across Boundaries seeks to develop partnerships to address these issues, and has recently achieved considerable success by directing international security assistance to meet these human security and development challenges. Although development and security programs are treated as conflicting priorities in national budgets, untapped opportunities exist to leverage each in mutual support. Read More
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The Beyond Boundaries Initiative
Kofi Annan, at the end of his tenure as UN Secretary-General, famously remarked that long-term security is not possible without development, and sustainable development is not achievable in the absence of security. Indeed, pursuing security objectives and development priorities simultaneously is a concept that has gained considerable attention…Read More »
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Partners in Prevention: The Private Sector and Countering Transnational Threats
By bringing together key (but disparate) government agencies with industry and relevant members of civil society to compare and contrast responses to a broad array of transnational threats, Stimson will yield an innovative stream of "leveraging activities" that will help respond more effectively and efficiently to a broad cross…Read More »
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Manufacturing Possibility
Promoting Economic Prosperity, Building Civil Society, and Advancing Sustainable Global Security Throughout the Cold War, the states of the former Soviet Union operated the largest nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons program in history. Today, as a direct result of that legacy, many of these countries host some of the…Read More »
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Cooperative Nonproliferation Resources
In order to assist website users, the Stimson Center has developed several resources that provide information related to cooperative nonproliferation. These resources include the 1540 Hub, books and reports, the Nonproliferation Scorecard, Business of Nonproliferation Map, WMD Reference Center, and Nonproliferation Glossary. THE 1540 HUB - The 1540…Read More »
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