Managing Across Boundaries

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- Transnational Threats
- Regional Security
- Effective Institutions

An increasing array of transnational challenges - from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the global drug trade, to contemporary human slavery, conventional arms trafficking, the spread of disease, and counterfeit intellectual property - have become so widespread that they threaten to overwhelm the capabilities of even the most well-intentioned governments to overcome 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.

Current Research

Engaging the Global South

In the past five years, more than half a billion people have escaped the grinding poverty associated with living on less than $1.25 a day. While development specialists rightly celebrate this trend, security analysts note that it brings with it an array of transnational challenges. MAB works with governments across the Global South to address these threats, identify pragmatic
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Working with Private Industry

The impact of globalization and technology diffusion on global security is incalculable. In the modern era, private industry has assumed an outsized role in knowingly or unwittingly facilitating a host of transnational security challenges. MAB seeks practical, market-based alternatives to enhanced regulation that better align profitability and public security as mutually
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Conventional Weapons

The legal global trade in conventional weapons is a multi-billion dollar business. But, when legal arms are transferred irresponsibly, or are diverted to the illicit market, the negative consequences- ranging from immeasurable human suffering and thousands of senseless killings each year to the facilitation of the use of child soldiers, the trade in other illegal goods, and
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

Since the dawn of the nuclear era, the international community has relied upon the global "technology denial" regime to ensure the nonproliferation of the world's most dangerous technologies. But in an era of technology democratization where governments, private companies and even individuals in far-flung corners of the globe can contribute to the proliferation supply chain,
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Global Health

In less than a generation, there have been remarkable advances in medical science. These developments have facilitated long term economic growth and the control of disease has also yielded near and long term security benefits. Yet the need remains to create robust and sustainable health systems to ensure long term sustainability of our efforts. To this end, MAB aims to find
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