Managing Across Boundaries Internship
The Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) program offers a unique opportunity to gain experience in one of the most compelling international relations issues today: an increasing array of transnational challenges-from WMD proliferation and the global drug trade, to contemporary human slavery, arms trafficking, and counterfeit goods-that have become so widespread they threaten to overwhelm the capabilities of even the most well-intentioned governments to mitigate their destructive effects. MAB experts and researchers work to identify the growing interlinkages between these security challenges as well as their detrimental effect on global development and economic growth.
In an ever changing political and technological environment, moreover, the private sector is among an increasingly relevant group of stakeholders that leverages power across borders. There is, as such, a need and a new opportunity to re-think how and who to engage in achieving global security and development objectives. MAB looks for ways to conceptualize and catalyze innovative solutions in terms of government responses - at the national, regional, and international levels - and smart public-private partnerships to this end.
Responsibilities for an intern with MAB include:
- Research, analysis, and editing for program publications;
- Program development and outreach support;
- Briefings on related events in the Washington, D.C. area;
- Program and Stimson administrative support.
Current research areas include:
o Bridging the divide between security and development;
o the Partners in Prevention project
o Managing the international arms trade
Generally, strong candidates for this position will have the following qualifications:
- Strong interest in multidisciplinary and innovative solutions to security challenges;
- Excellent research, analysis, writing, and editing skills;
- Display an understanding of the transnational and interconnected nature of many of today's challenges;
- Full-time or part-time availability; and
- Undergraduate and/or graduate students are encouraged to apply.