All Publications by Brian Finlay

• Presidential Inbox 2013: Prevent Trafficking in the Global Supply Chain

  Click here to view the complete Presidential Inbox series.

  The Challenge

  Propelled by the forces of globalization, transnational criminal activity and the related trafficking of

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• Meeting the Objectives of UN Security Council Resolution 1540: The Role of Civil Society

  In 2004, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1540, which mandates a comprehensive set of supply-side controls on all States. Since then, governments have worked to varying

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• Beyond Boundaries in the Andean Region

  Although even the most cursory survey of the human condition today reveals wild geographic disparities in virtually every economic, social, and political measure, at no other point

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• No Iranian Nukes, Eh?

  Last week, the Government of Canada announced that it would immediately close its Embassy in Tehran, and declared personae non gratae all remaining Iranian diplomats in Canada. In

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• Modernizing the Nonproliferation Toolkit: The Case of Poland

  Incidents of proliferation since the end of the Cold War, along with the case of Iran, point to a dramatically different nonproliferation challenge in this century compared to the

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• Beyond Boundaries in South Asia

  As a direct result of globalization and expanded economic opportunity, the last half century has yielded the most remarkable exodus from poverty in human history. Regrettably, not

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• A Farewell to (Illicit) Arms: Addressing the Uncontrolled Trade of Small Arms in 2012

  International progress toward combating the uncontrolled trade in conventional arms, which is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and immeasurable human suffering every

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• Turtle Bay Security Roundtable: Navigating the Sanctions Regime, Promoting Proliferation Prevention

  Over the last quarter century, globalization has revolutionized the international system. Global trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and the rapid flow of goods,

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• South-South Models for Preventing Proliferation

  Today's interconnected global economy has eased the ability of more people in all corners of the globe to be part of to the weapons of mass destruction supply chain than at any

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• MAB Report Launch in Nairobi, Kenya

  More than half of the people in sub-Saharan Africa live in poverty, and in certain parts of Eastern Africa, the poverty rate exceeds 80 percent. At least 40 percent of Africans do

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• Bridging the Divide: Security and Development Capacity‐Building in Southeast Asia

  Introduction

  Thirty years of globalization has brought widespread economic growth to Southeast Asia. For example, both the Philippines and Viet Nam have taken great strides to reduce

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• Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa: Part 5

  A five part series that started on Monday in the World Politics Review examines security and development aid in East Africa. This is the final entry in the series. The series is

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• Managing Across Boundaries Newsletter

  March 15, 2011

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• Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa

  As a direct result of globalization and expanded economic opportunity, the last half century has yielded the most remarkable exodus from poverty in human history. Regrettably, not

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• Sustaining Proliferation Prevention: Gaining Ground in the Global South

  When the threat of proliferation is raised among developed states, the discussion focuses on preventing the acquisition of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons to states and

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• Counterfeit Drugs and National Security

  The deadly implications of counterfeit drugs are well understood to be a central challenge to the integrity of public health systems around the globe, as well as a direct threat to

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• Bridging the Security/Development Divide in East Africa with International Security Assistance

  During the week of December 6, the Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) program travelled to East Africa to engage with governments and the nongovernmental community under the auspices

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• How to prevent the next Viktor Bout

  Viktor Bout, the Russian arms trafficking suspect, arrived on US soil today to be prosecuted for illegally selling arms to some of the most nefarious strongmen and terrorist

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• Case in context: Yemen and the (lack of) U.S. “whole of government” approach

  The concept of “whole of government” is the latest in a long Washington legacy of hip slang that no one seems to fully understand but that everyone wholeheartedly embraces.

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• The West Must Expend Resources Wisely in Yemen

  In this article for World Politics Review, based on a new report released by the Managing Across Boundaries program and the Stanley Foundation, Brian Finlay and Johan Bergenas

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• Beyond Boundaries in the Middle East

  Leveraging Nonproliferation Assistance to Address Security/Dev

  Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization itself, the Middle East not only boasts the origin of many major

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• Beyond Boundaries in the Middle East

  Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization itself, the Middle East not only boasts the origin of many major religions, it is a part of the world rich in history, culture, and

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• A “Dual Use” Approach to Development and Security in Central America

  Few regions of the world better illustrate the intimate nexus between human development and security than does Central America. A region of inherent economic and social promise,

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• WMD, Drugs, and Criminal Gangs in Central America

  Few regions of the world better illustrate the intimate nexus between human development and security than does Central America, this Stimson Center and Stanley Foundation project

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• Curbing Proliferation Through Development

  Nuclear terrorism is not a ­preeminent concern for most countries, but preventing it has benefits they should consider, writes Brian Finlay for the Stanley Foundation Courier. Click

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• Report on the Workshop: Nuclear Dangers, Nuclear Realities

  In the future, 2009 and 2010 may emerge as a decisive time in the evolution of international nuclear policies.  The global demand for energy security has led to renewed interest

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• Next Steps for Nuclear Security

  Even the President's most vocal critics are having difficulty finding fault with the results of his recent Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. The gathering of 47 world leaders

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• Pharmaceutical Terror: Getting Health Care Reform Right

  From a public health perspective, there is much to celebrate among the many competing health care reform proposals that have been offered on Capitol Hill. Yet one underlying and

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• Making Our Borders Safer

  If the failure to prevent Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day yields nothing else, it should serve as a stark reminder of al Qaeda's

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• CTR for Pakistan: Opportunity Knocks

  By Brian D. Finlay and Matthew Rojansky 

  Last week, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari transferred the chairmanship of the committee governing his country's nuclear weapons to

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• Bridging the Security/Development Divide with UN Security Council Resolution 1540

   A Case Study Approach

  Submitted as a Working Paper for The Stanley Foundation’s “Resolution 1540: At The Crossroads” Event on October 1, 2009.

  In a rapidly globalizing world, the

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• Fifteen Forty or Fight: This Bush Initiative is Worth Keeping

  Much legitimate criticism has been levied in recent months over the Bush Administration's record on nonproliferation. In the past eight years, North Korea was allowed to expand its

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• Bridging the Security/Development Divide with UN Security Council Resolution 1540

  A Case Study Approach

  September 2009

  Submitted as a Working Paper for The Stanley Foundation’s “Resolution 1540: At The Crossroads” Event on October 1, 2009.

  In a rapidly globalizing

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• The Global Partnership Working Group: Preserving Your Father’s Arms Control

  Amidst calls for the forum's dissolution, and at its most recent summit in L'Aquila, Italy, the G8 offered a new approach to preventing the illicit diversion of WMD knowledge. The

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• Presidential Inbox 2009: The First 100 Days

  The first 100 days of any administration are filled with tough choices and breaks from past policies. This administration is no different. In the lead-up to the election, Stimson

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• Don’t Feed the Bioterrorism Threat

  Residents pour into the subway in rush-hour haste. They are met by five coordinated terrorist releases of sarin, a deadly nerve agent. A dozen people die, fifty more are severely

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• “Insuring” against WMD Terrorism

  How the Insurance Industry Could Become a Key Ally in Preventing a Nuclear 9/11

  For the first time since the 9/11 attacks, global terrorism has been eclipsed as the greatest

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• Minding Our Business: The Role of the Private Sector in Managing the WMD Supply Chain

  States and terrorist organizations can easily exploit legitimate businesses up and down the supply chain to obtain dual-use knowledge and technologies. In today’s security

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• The Next 100 Project: Leveraging National Security Assistance to Meet Developing World Needs

  The world is facing a new era of proliferation, sparked by the end of the Cold War and the transferring of sophisticated technologies from government to private hands. As this trade

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• Achieving Energy Security in an Insecure World

  The issue of global energy sits at the nexus of the most urgent issues of our time. The importance of clean, cheap, and accessible energy to international security, economic

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• General Public Must Do Its Part To Prevent Future Terrorist Attacks

  Much of the needed response to prevent WMD terrorism must occur beyond our shores and depends upon collaboration with our allies overseas. Yet there are also serious risks within

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• Nuclear Terrorism: US Policies to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Terror

  The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) has released a WMD Report Card, examining US Government programs to prevent nuclear, chemical, and biological terrorism. In 2005, the 9/11

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• Developing Our Way out of WMD Terror

  With a leak resistant system impractical, ensuring that every government has a stake in proliferation prevention, and is incentivized and capable of playing nonproliferation

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• Against All Odds: Preventing Terrorists from Getting Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons

  By Brian Finlay and Dr. Elizabeth Turpen

  The Challenge

  A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in the hands of terrorists poses a grave threat to the security of the United States. While

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• Preventing Nuclear Terrorism Seven Years After 9/11

  In its final report to the American people, the Commission responsible for investigating the terrorist attacks of September 11th found that, "The greatest danger of another

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• Are We Safer?

  The impending closure of the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax-laced mailings of 2001 has generated new interest in the question: Are we safer today than we were when anthrax was

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• A New Strategy to Prevent Terrorist Acquisition of the Bomb: Clear, Hold, Build

  General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Iraq has been described by some as "the smartest active-duty general in the US Army today." Whatever one's sentiments of the War in

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• Manufacturing Possibility

  Existing nonproliferation programs aimed at redirecting former Soviet weapons scientists must be complemented by a new model that is based on the creation of incentives for private

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• Pharmaceutical Terrorism—The Bane of Biotech

  In 1989, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new product for treating severe neck pain and involuntary muscle spasms. Heralded as a breakthrough in therapeutic medicine, the

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• Old Plagues, New Threats: The Biotech Revolution and its Impact on US National Security

  The benefits of biotechnology have brought unprecedented advances in global development. In many ways, the world is a better place to live than it has ever been: life expectancy has

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• Energy Department Links to Iranian Nukes Salacious… but Untrue

  Two months ago, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a review of the Energy Department's Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) program-one of many US

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• The Limits of Zero: How the Rush to Abolition May Not Make Us More Secure

  On June 10^th, 1963, a mere seven months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy traveled the four miles from the White House to American University to deliver the

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• Scientific Cooperation to Meet Grand Challenges: Valuating Russian Scientific Strength

  The following study relied on Essential Science Indicators Sci-bytes and Web of Science, products offered by Thomson Scientific, in order to determine the areas of science in which

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• Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR): The New Dot-Com Bubble?

  Renowned evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton observed in 1971 that animals fleeing a predator are predisposed to move to the center of the escaping pack. He concluded that the

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• Fighting Terrorism at a Store Near You

  Brian Finlay discusses the commercial opportunities available to private businesses willing to engage former Soviet Union WMD specialists.

   

  

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  October

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• Taming the Vulture: Turning Distressed-Debt Investors into Agents of Social Change

  At a time when we are told that terrorist interest in acquiring nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction is at an all time high--and competitive budgetary

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• From Russia with Drugs: Innovative Sources for Medical Countermeasures to Bioterrorism

  Five years after anthrax-laced letters killed seven people and sickened dozens of others, the apparent vulnerability of the United States to bioterrorism has hastened a dramatic

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• 25 Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terror: A Guide for Policymakers

  There is no greater threat to global security than the diffusion of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons expertise and materials. Without an integrated approach to securing

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• Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster

  This  book provides a critical and contemporary assessment of the programs intended to reduce the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons’ proliferation risks stemming from collapse

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• Regulating Access and Control of Dangerous Pathogens: Implications for the Pharmaceutical Industry

  Seven days after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anthrax spores were spread through the US Postal Service to a variety of news services and

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• Russian Roulette-Canada’s Role in the Race to Secure Loose Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons

  In the Spring 2006 edition of International Journal, Brian Finlay discusses the threats posed by unsecured weapons of mass destruction.  He describes the Canadian Government’s

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• Venture Capitalist.gov: Courting the Ultimate Angel Investor

  President Bush has asserted repeatedly that the greatest national security threat facing our country is the possibility of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon in the hands of

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• The Race to Secure Russia’s Loose Nukes: Progress Since 9/11

  Four years after a bipartisan Task Force recommended an acceleration of programs to secure Russia’s vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials by 2009-2011, the United States has

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• Tougher Measures Needed on Terror Weapons BUSH CONGRESS SHOULD ACT

  Brian Finlay and Charles Ferguson discuss the threats of proliferation and terrorism.  They call for enhanced programs to fight these threats and for the elimination of

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• Ultimate Security: Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction

  Brian D. Finlay, Bernard I. Finel, and Janne E. Nolan, editors

  
  The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other advanced military technologies has emerged as the

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