Managing Across Boundaries
An increasing array of transnational challenges - from WMD proliferation and the global drug trade, to contemporary human slavery, conventional arms trafficking, disease, and counterfeit intellectual property - have become so widespread they threaten to overwhelm the capabilities of even the most well-intentioned governments to mitigate their destructive effects. The Managing Across Boundaries initiative looks for innovative government responses - at the national, regional, and international levels - and for smart public-private partnerships to mitigate these threats. Our experts and researchers work to conceptualize and catalyze "whole of society" solutions to the most pressing transnational challenges of our day.
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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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Partners in Prevention
Led by a senior-level Task Force, the Partners in Prevention project works with industry to facilitate pragmatic, market-based steps to ensure that profitability and public security are mutually reinforcing goals in global business operations.
Every day, legitimate businesses that form the physical and financial backbones of our global economy are unwittingly co-opted as key
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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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The Hybrid World Initiative
The Hybrid World Initiative (HWI) at Managing Across Boundaries offers insights and foresights on three defining aspects of international relations today: (1) Capacity-building at the intersection of defense, security and development; (2) Taking advantage of the nexus where wise public policy and profit meet; and (3) The expanding set of stakeholders and powerbrokers
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Partners and Affiliates
Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) collaborates with a wide array of governments, nongovernmental organizations, multilateral organizations, and private sector stakeholders. We work with these actors to build strategic partnerships beyond traditional boundaries in order to look for innovative ways to overcome today's transnational threats. Listed below are some of MAB's
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Infographics
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November 16, 2012
Managing Across Boundaries Trifold -
September 14, 2010
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June 01, 2010
The Business of Nonproliferation Map
Videos
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April 05, 2013
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May 01, 2012
Africa’s Quest: Bridging the Security/Development Divide -
April 16, 2012
The Arms Trade Treaty: Setting the Stage for U.S. Leadership in the July 2012 Negotiations
Experts
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Johan Bergenas Deputy Director
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Debra Decker Senior Advisor
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Brian Finlay Managing Director | Senior Associate
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Allen Moore Senior Advisor
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Rachel Stohl Senior Associate
Staff
- Esha Mufti Research Assistant
- Nathaniel F. Olson Research Associate
Affiliates & Fellows
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Ambassador Ochieng Adala Visiting Fellow
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O’Neil Hamilton Visiting Fellow
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Alistair Millar Affiliate
