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• ATT Implementation: Arms Transfers and the Global Supply and Transport Chain

  

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• Brian Finlay publishes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on nonproliferation today

  Managing Director and Managing Across Boundaries Initiative’s Senior Associate Brian Finlay was published in the Bulleting of the Atomic Scientists, writing on how to continue tackling

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• Brian Finlay featured on The Carnegie Corporation’s podcast series

  Managing Director and Managing Across Boundaries Initiative’s Senior Associate Brian Finlay was featured on the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s new podcast series “Good Talks.”

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• Brian Finlay and Johan Bergenas publish in The Nonproliferation Review on courting the Global South

  Managing Director and Managing Across Boundaries Initiative’s Senior Associate Brian Finlay and Deputy Director Johan Bergenas were published in The Nonproliferation Review, writing on how

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• Combatting the Undercurrents of Globalization in the Developing World

  In the last 150 years, advanced technology has served as a critical tool in achieving national and international goals and, by extension, to furthering the human condition. Public-private

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• Johan Bergenas publishes paper on how the high-tech industry can help achieve global goals

  Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) Deputy Director Johan Bergenas published an Occassional Paper with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs titled, “Combatting the Undercurrents of

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• The Carnegie Corporation recognizes MAB’s Beyond Boundaries work in Results report

  The Carnegie Corporation of New York has selected the Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) Initiative’s work under Beyond Boundaries project to be featured in the Carnegie Results report. The

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• The Stanley Foundation releases policy memo on fostering regional momentum for UNSCR 1540

  The Stanley Foundation has released a policy memo based on a series of discussions by a group of UN and government officials, as well as representatives of regional, subregional, and

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• Johan Bergenas and Esha Mufti publish in WPR on integrated strategies for interconnected threats

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenäs and Research Assistant Esha Mufti were published in World Politics Review, writing about the increasingly close links between

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• United Nations Issue Conference

  Since its adoption in 2004, there has been significant progress both in terms of perception and implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540. Still, significant

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• The Turtle Bay Security Roundtable: Proliferation Challenges in a Flat World

  The Permanent Missions of Japan, Poland and Turkey, in cooperation
  with the Stimson Center, are pleased to present: 

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• Brian Finlay participates in UNSCR 1540 Civil Society Forum

  Managing Across Boundaries Managing Director Brian Finlay participate a meeting hosted by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria, in cooperation with the

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• UNSCR 1540 Civil Society Forum - Opportunities for Engagement

  Hosted by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and organized by the Steering Committee

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• Johan Bergenas speaks at Uppsala University on next generation partnerships in global relations

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenas spoke at an Uppsala University panel titled “A Wider Security Agenda.” He spoke on the next generation partnerships within and

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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 degrees to

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• Johan Bergenas speaks at industry conference on innovative partnerships for security and development

  Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) Deputy Director Johan Bergenas spoke at a conference titled E3DS Summit, co-presented by IHS and Dynamixx, on global and regional security and development

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• Brian Finlay on C-SPAN, introducing panel on international anti-counterfeit drug efforts

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay was on C-SPAN, introducing a panel on international anti-counterfeit prescription drug efforts.

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• Johan Bergenas publishes on defense, security, and development in a hybrid world in WPR

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenäs writes in World Politics Review on how to address today’s increasingly interconnected and complex challenges to peace, security, and

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• Johan Bergenas publishes on future role of the defense industry in Politico

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenäs writes in Politico about the public policy and market driven incentives for the defense industry to expand its niche in response to

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• Brian Finlay participates in insurance panel on mitigating risk against catastrophes

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay participates in a panel on recent catastrophes, disaster forecasts and how record losses have insurers crafting new policy options and

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• Turtle Bay event on preventing the proliferation of conventional weapons covered in Foreign Policy

  “The Turtle Bay Security Roundtable: Opportunities to Prevent Proliferation of Conventional Weapons,” an event co-hosted by the Stimson Center’s Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) program in

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• The Turtle Bay Security Roundtable: Opportunities to Prevent Proliferation of Conventional Weapons

  On May 31, 2011 the Permanent Missions of Japan, Poland, and Turkey to the United Nations, in cooperation with the Stimson Center, hosted a day-long conference on the proliferation challenges

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• Brian Finlay and Barry Blechman published on international climate cooperation

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay and Stimson co-founder Barry Blechman co-authored a report exploring what the climate change community can learn from the experiences of the

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• Book event: Building International Climate Cooperation

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay and Stimson co-founder Barry Blechman will be speaking at the launch of Building International Climate Cooperation: Lessons from the weapons

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• Brian Finlay and Johan Bergenas published in World Politics Review on illicit trafficking

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay and Deputy Director Johan Bergenäs were published in World Politics Review, writing on the need to think holistically about

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• Johan Bergenas and Esha Mufti published in Defense News on role of security and defense industry

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenäs and Research Assistant Esha Mufti were published in Defense News, writing about the public policy and market driven incentives for

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• Brian Finlay and Rachel Stohl published in The Hill on the illicit trafficking of arms

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay and Fellow Rachel Stohl were published in The Hill, writing on the heels of the conclusion of notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout’s trial. The

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• Rachel Stohl participates in SIPRI panel on recent trends in arms transfers

  Managing Across Boundaries Fellow Rachel Stohl participated in a panel hosted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America. The panel titled “Monitoring Arms

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• Brian Finlay published in edited volume on the need to engage private sector in global strategies

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay was published in Evolving Transnational Threats and Border Security, writing on the need to bridge the gap between the Global North’s “hard”

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• Johan Bergenas speaks at Uppsala University on technology applications for security and development

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenas spoke at Uppsala University’s Association of International Affairs in Sweden. Technology is increasingly being viewed as an antidote

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• Johan Bergenas published in World Politics Review with Karl Lallerstedt on security data sharing

  Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenas was published in World Politics Review, writing with Karl Lallerstedt writing on private sector information sharing and

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• Brian Finlay speaks to 1540 Working Group on Assistance

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay spoke to the 1540 Working Group on Assistance in New York. Finlay’s remarks focused on the need for bridging the divide between the hard

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• Brian Finlay published in the Courier on a “whole of society” approach to nonproliferation

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay was published in the Courier, writing on the need for “whole of society” solutions-at the national, regional, and international levels-to

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• The Turtle Bay Security Roundtable Conference Brief

  On December 05, 2011, in cooperation with MAB, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations joined the Permanent Mission of Poland to the UN to host the Turtle Bay Security

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• A Wider Security Agenda—its Necessity and Challenges

  Managing Across Boundaries Research Analyst Johan Bergenas will be speaking at Uppsala University in Sweden on MAB's model to bridge the security/development divide and engaging both public

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• Johan Bergenas speaks at Uppsala University

  Managing Across Boundaries Research Analyst Johan Bergenas spoke at Uppsala University in Sweden on MAB’s dual-benefit model to bridge the security/development divide and engaging both

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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, services, information, and

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

  The Permanent Missions of Japan and Poland, in cooperation
  with the Stimson Center, are pleased to present:

  The Turtle Bay Security Roundtable:
  Navigating the Sanctions Regime, Promoting

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• Johan Bergenas published in World Politics Review

  Managing Across Boundaries Research Analyst Johan Bergenas was published in World Politics Review. In his article, “Fighting Budget Deficits by Leveraging the Private Sector,” Bergenas

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• Brian Finlay interviewed in Global Security Newswire on the danger of trafficked WMD materials

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay was interviewed by Martin Matishak for his article, “Danger of Trafficked Nuclear, Radiological Materials Lingers: Experts,” which appears in

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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 other time in

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• The Stimson Center cited by PBS

  The Stimson Center was cited by PBS in a “Small Arms, Mass Destruction” infographic as part of a five-part special series on women, war, and peace. To view the infographic, please click … Read More »

• Rachel Stohl quoted on OutFront about the conviction of Viktor Bout

  Managing Across Boundaries Fellow Rachel Stohl was quoted on Erin Burnett’s CNN show OutFront about the conviction of notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout on November 02, 2011.

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• Rachel Stohl Joins the Managing Across Boundaries Program

  International arms trade expert Rachel Stohl joined the Stimson Center early this October, as a Fellow with the Managing Across Boundaries Program.  In this role, Stohl will assist

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• Book Event - Our Own Worst Enemy

  Sharon K. Weiner, Associate Professor at American University's School of International Service, will discuss her book, Our Own Worst Enemy?

  When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many

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• Brian Finlay speaks to the Permanent Mission of Poland

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay spoke to the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations at a UN Security Council Resolution 1540 side-event titled “Advancing

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• Brian Finlay writes on how to better combat today’s transnational threats in The Washington Times

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay was published in The Washington Times, writing on the need to understand the interconnections between today’s transnational threat

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• Brian Finlay writes on emerging South-South partnerships in security in Global Studies Review

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay writes in Global Studies Review on the emergence of innovative approaches by governments of the Global South and other emerging

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• Brian Finlay talks about the future of terrorism in new article

  Brian Finlay talks about the future of terrorism for the insurance industry in a new article, Perspectives: Terrorism Cover Gets More Complex With Over-Abundant Capacity and Less-Predictable

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• Promoting the Global Instruments of Nonproliferation and Disarmament

  The one-day UN conference was designed to provide a forum for stakeholders in relevant sectors – government; international and regional organizations; think-tanks and civil society

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• MAB Newsletter: June/July 2011

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• Promoting the Global Instruments of Nonproliferation and Disarmament

  On May 31, 2011 the Permanent Missions of Japan, Poland, and Turkey, in collaboration with the Stimson Center’s Managing Across Boundaries program, hosted a day-long UN conference “Promoting

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• Brian Finlay comments on renewal of G8 Global Partnership in GSN

  Brian Finlay comments on renewal of G8 Global Partnership in Global Security Newswire. Click here to read the … Read More »

• Promoting the Global Instruments of Nonproliferation and Disarmament

  The Permanent Missions of Japan, Poland and Turkey to the United Nations,  in cooperation
  with the Stimson Center, are pleased to present
  

   

  
  PROMOTING THE GLOBAL INSTRUMENTS OF

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• Coordinating Global Priorities Amidst the Financial Crisis

  With today’s tough financial reality, the international community is hard-pressed in meeting both national security and global development objectives as policymakers around the world attempt

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• Coordinating Global Priorities Amidst the Financial Crisis

  Achieving national security and global development objectives amidst financial austerity and national budget cuts is rightly at the forefront of our current political discourse. Doing more

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• Security Council Set to Renew UN 1540 Resolution

  Today, the United Nations Security Council is expected to renew the mandate of Resolution 1540, a WMD nonproliferation measure aiming to prevent non-state actors from acquiring chemical,

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• Managing Across Boundaries April/May Newsletter

  In April 2011, the UN Security Council will vote to renew the mandate of Resolution 1540. As a result, the Managing Across Boundaries program has devoted its April/May newsletter to feature

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• Johan Bergenas writes for The Hill, “Memo to Congress: The UN works”

  Last week Congress voted to cut its contributions to the United Nations by 20 percent and the John Boltons of the world continue to scorn the organization. Yet, when it comes to the

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• Brian Finlay quoted in Global Security Newswire article on WMD center

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• ‘Emerging Donors: Shifting Agendas in Development and Security’

  We are entering an era in which a range of key activities and strategic relationships in the realms of foreign policy, global trade, and international security are being taken up by a new

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• Managing Across Boundaries Newsletter

  March 15, 2011

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• Brian Finlay expresses optimism for the prospective renewal of G-8 Nonproliferation Program

  Brian Finlay interviewed by Global Security Newswire on the Group of Eight industrialized nations’ Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.

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• Brian Finlay proposes smart use of nonproliferation funds on The Hill

  With prospects of budget reductions for U.S. nuclear security and other nonproliferation programs in the coming fiscal year, it has become more critical to use existing funds in innovative

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• MAB program staff participate in Stanley Foundation organized meeting on UNSCR 1540

  February 25-27, 2011 - Managing Across Boundaries program staff participates in Stanley Foundation organized meeting on UN Security Council Resolution 1540 - On February 25-27, the Managing

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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 terrorist

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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 our

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• Johan Bergenas authors new analysis on 1540 implementation in World Politics Review

  This weekend, Saudi Arabia will gather Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and other Middle Eastern states to collaborate on fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction to

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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 actors of

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• Brian Finlay publishes article “How to prevent the next Viktor Bout” in the Guardian

  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 actors of

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• Brian Finlay quoted in Global Security Newswire article on the recent mail bomb plot

  Senior Associate Brian Finlay was recently quoted in the Global Security Newswire article “Terrorists Unlikely to Use WMD in Mail Bomb Plots, Experts Say.” To view the article, click Read More »

• 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 here to

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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 potentially

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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 need for

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• Achieving Nonproliferation Goals: Moving From Denial to Technology Governance

   

  June 2009

  Policy Analysis Brief for The Stanley Foundation

   

  Traditional state-centric approaches to nonproliferation cannot adequately address the proliferation pressures that will

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• Achieving Nonproliferation Goals: Moving from Denial to Technology Governance

  Policy Analysis Brief for The Stanley Foundation

  Traditional state-centric approaches to nonproliferation cannot adequately address the proliferation pressures that will continue to mount

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• Leveraging Science for Security: A Strategy for the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories in the 21st Century

  The United States is quickly losing its leadership position in science and technology (S&T). We are seeing this in our schools, our research institutes, in the intelligence community, and in

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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 environment, a

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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 has

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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 development,

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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 our

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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 hardball must

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• The Global Partnership goes Global

  Earlier this month leaders of the G-8 decided to expand the operations of the Global Partnership to address proliferation challenges worldwide. Launched at the 2002 G-8 Summit in Kananaskis,

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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 Iraq, or

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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 drug

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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 doubled

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• THE SILK ROAD INITIATIVE

  While in the past fifteen years the US Government’s cooperative nonproliferation programs (CNP) have proven to be the best and most cost effect tools for mitigating the threat of terrorist

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• Non-State Actors and Nonproliferation: The NGO Role in Implementing UNSCR 1540

  In the wake of the AQ Khan incident in 2004, the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1540, which requires all states to enact wide-ranging anti-proliferation measures in order

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• The Human Dimension Is Key to Controlling Proliferation of WMD

  In APS News, Elizabeth Turpen explains the threat posed by former Soviet weapons expertise in the race to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She describes the various

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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 the large

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• Cooperative Threat Reduction: Moving Beyond State Intent

  Dr. Turpen writes that cooperative threat reduction efforts under the Nunn-Lugar suite must move beyond traditional approaches. The focus on state intent is too narrow, as it ignores weak

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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 preeminent

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