Managing Across Boundaries
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. The Managing Across Boundaries program looks for innovative government responses - at the national, regional, and international levels - and for smart public-private partnerships to mitigate these threats.
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Russia
In Russia, MAB undertook several comprehensive lessons-learned analyses of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs. It proposed an innovative series of recommendations designed to ensure long term success and sustainability of these programs, and ensure that weapons of mass destruction do not fall into the hands of terrorists. MAB also helped pioneer a new approach to industry engagement that would facilitate market-based engagement of former weapons specialists across the states of the former Soviet Union.
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Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, MAB carries out a wide range of research, analysis and programming in the forms of seminars and workshops focused on maritime security, civilian nuclear power, human trafficking, climate change adaptation capacity building, piracy, as well as WMD and small arms nonproliferation and countertrafficking.
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Central Asia
In Central Asia, MAB experts have promoted the Stimson Center's "dual-benefit" security assistance model that has played a key role in bridging the security/development divide in other regions. MAB participates in programs and initiatives run by the UN and national governments.
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South Asia
MAB has hosted and collaborates with South Asian regional experts and border security practitioners in analyzing the nexus between transnational crime, small arms, drug trafficking and how these nefarious activities impact social progress and global counterterrorism and WMD nonproliferation strategies.
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Eastern Africa
In Eastern Africa, MAB has worked toward determining how assistance related to implementation of international "hard security" mandates can help bridge the security/development divide in the region by facilitating capacity-building in areas such as border and maritime security. Improved assistance in these areas would simultaneously impede the flow of illicit small arms, illicit nuclear materials and enhance trade. MAB continues to engage extensively with governments, regional organizations, and NGOs on implementation efforts.
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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.
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Europe
In Europe, MAB is working with the security and defense sector in seeking to expand that industry's impact as capacity building forces for global security and development. MAB also engages with governments and major regional and international actors hosting seminars and conferences on international security assistance, domestic preparedness and WMD nonproliferation.
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South America
In South America, MAB is preparing to expand its efforts to promote its proven "dual benefit" international security assistance model that has played a key role in bridging the security-development divide in other regions around the world to the Andean region. Areas of focus include improving government ability to inspect and interdict contraband, particularly at border crossings and increased support to train and equip border security patrol.
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Caribbean Countries
In the Caribbean, MAB has partnered with the OAS, CARICOM, governments, and civil society to work toward improving export controls, as well as port, maritime and border security to support governments in their quest to transform their countries from tourist-based economies to trade-based economies. The end goal is to simultaneously build capacity for sustainable development and the prevention of the illicit flows of drugs and small arms.
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Central America
In Central America, MAB has successfully collaborated with OAS, SICA, governments, and civil society to identify WMD nonproliferation resources that can also benefit regional security and development needs related to drug trafficking, small arms proliferation and criminal gangs.
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North America
In North America, MAB collaborates with governments and their representatives at embassies and in the United Nations. MAB has organized major international conferences at UN headquarters and periodically hosts foreign policy discussions in Washington, DC. The program also works with industry to facilitate better partnerships with the public and civil society sectors especially in securing the global supply chain and building capacity in the developing world. MAB will continue to expand its work in this area, including collaboration with pharmaceutical, financial, insurance, security, defense, radiopharmaceutical, and shipping corporations.
Current Research
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Public-Private Partnerships for National Security
Over the last few decades, globalization has yielded innumerable economic and development benefits worldwide. Yet our global interconnectedness has also facilitated the activities of transnational criminal groups. The Managing Across Boundaries program (MAB) brings together key government agencies, private sector stakeholders and civil society organizations to pioneer
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Bridging the Divide Between Security and Development
Then Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, famously remarked that long-term security is not possible without development, and that sustainable development is not achievable in the absence of security. Indeed, pursuing security objectives and development priorities simultaneously is a concept that has gained considerable attention among world leaders and
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Managing the International Arms Trade
The global trade in conventional weapons is a multi-billion dollar business. Headlines containing dire threats of weapons of mass destruction often dominate the front page and spending habits of developed world governments, but it is conventional weapons that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and immeasurable human suffering every year. International
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Infographics
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June 01, 2010
The Business of Nonproliferation Map -
September 14, 2010
The Pathfinder -
September 27, 2011
About Managing Across Boundaries
Videos
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February 03, 2012
Assistant Secretary Shapiro Discusses Libya’s Missing Weapons -
August 30, 2010
Lexington Insurance Homeland Security Series: WMD terrorism -
December 01, 2008
Finding a Solution to Bioterror
Experts
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Johan Bergenas Deputy Director
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Brian Finlay Senior Associate
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O’Neil Hamilton Visiting Fellow
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Rachel Stohl Fellow
Staff
- Esha Mufti Research Assistant