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. Beyond their immediate human impact, they conspire to suborn government authorities, degrade the rule of law, and can lead to lawlessness, state failure, and the need for foreign military intervention. Until all levels of society adapt to the new challenges associated with globalization, these transnational threats will continue to gain ground and ultimately outstrip the benefits of our expanding global connectedness. Recognizing the continued need to develop integrated responses, the Managing Across Boundaries Program identifies pragmatic solutions to these societal ills by working across the seams of global policy-within governments, between governments, and with the private sector. READ MORE »
Current Research
THE NEXT 100 INITIATIVE: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1540 » UN Security Council Resolution 1540 provides an innovative platform to pair states in need with donor capacity to deal with a spectrum of hard and soft security threats. The Next 100 Project aims to apply the tools of cooperative nonproliferation beyond the original seven states to develop scalable, sustainable, and replicable models that pragmatically pair the next 100 states in need of assistance with those states capable of offering it. READ MORE »
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 section of transnational threats. READ MORE »
THE BIOTEK PROJECT: MANAGING DEADLY PATHOGENS » Advances in biotechnology have fundamentally altered the course of human discovery. But the growth of the biologics industry also presents new opportunities for bioterrorism. The Cooperative Nonproliferation Program works closely with industry to examine the challenges emerging from the misuse of biologics in our country and around the globe. READ MORE »
MANUFACTURING POSSIBILITY: NONPROLIFERATION THRU SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT » Today, an array of powerful economic and political forces subsumed under the rubric of "globalization" have converged to dramatically alter the global security environment by pushing dual-use knowledge and technologies into more hands in more countries in more corners of the world than ever before. The Managing Across Boundaries Program is working to bend these market forces to create new, mutually beneficial models of security and economic expansion. READ MORE »