Middle East/North Africa
In the Middle East and North Africa, MAB has focused on the intersections between a wide range of human security needs, including water scarcity, energy insecurity, and transnational crime. MAB continues to analyze how security assistance can backfill human security capacity needs while simultaneously improving the WMD nonproliferation regime. MAB experts have written on the role of both governments and regional organizations in implementing international security mandates and how such steps connect with human security and development.
Current Research
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Rachel Stohl and Alexander Georgieff’s op-ed featured on The Hill’s Congress Blog
Rachel Stohl and Alexander Georgieff's op-ed on the U.S. role in arming the Syrians was published on The Hill's Congress Blog.
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Geneive Abdo quoted in Bloomberg
Geneive Abdo was quoted in Bloomberg:
"He [Qalibaf] is a rational player," said Geneive Abdo, a research fellow at the Washington-based Stimson Center, which was set up in 1989 to promote peace. "The U.S. is more comfortable dealing with technocrats and economists who are much less ideological than presidents such as Ahmadinejad."
Khamenei "had this terrible experience with
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Rachel Stohl quoted in Executive Magazine on chemical weapons in Syria
Managing Across Boundaries Senior Associate Rachel Stohl was quoted in Executive magazine on chemical weapons in Syria.
Stohl observed, "as we learned in Iraq and Libya, it is very clear that when a country is in crisis or transition and loses control over a stockpile of weapons - be they conventional or chemical - there's an inherent danger to the population. Loose weapons
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Rachel Stohl quoted in USA Today on Missing Libyan Weapons
Managing Across Boundaries Fellow Rachel Stohl was quoted in USA Today by Jim Michaels on missing MANPADS in Libya after the overthrow of Gadhafi.
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Libya’s Missing Weapons: Understanding Global Efforts to Control Conventional Arms
On February 02, 2012, the Managing Across Boundaries program hosted Libya’s Missing Weapons: Understanding Global Efforts to Control Conventional Arms, an event that examined the impact of the collapse of the Gadhafi regime on the uncontrolled proliferation of conventional weapons, including man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). Speakers and panelists highlighted the
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