Regional Voices

Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges is a project devoted to enhancing the information and analysis available to US policymakers about emerging transnational security challenges in the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Africa. The project develops knowledge and analysis of the perspectives of technical and subject experts, and political and strategic analysts. The program understands transnational challenges as threats or challenges which transcend national borders, and those which are national in scope but recur in many societies in a region. These include pandemics, deforestation, climate change, social conflict, migration, fisheries, water shortages and shared use of water tables or river systems. Read More

 

Current Research

  • Maritime Commerce and Security: The Indian Ocean

    Maritime Commerce and Security: The Indian Ocean describes the commerical trends and their security implications with a view to helping policy makers and others outside the industry understand the vulnerabilities of an industry that is central to the global economy and security.

    Maritime commerce in the Indian Ocean is vital to global trade, in volume, in the key resources and

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  • Fresh Water Futures

    On 29 January 2010, the Stimson Center, under the sponsorship of the National Intelligence Council and the US State Department, organized a workshop in Washington, DC, focused on the future of global fresh water resources and the politics of water resource management. The conference brought together more than forty policy practitioners and analysts drawn from government,

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  • Local Contours of Security in Afghanistan

    In this study, Mr. Prakhar Sharma synthesizes quantitative and qualitative research (gathered between December 2006 and May 2010) to provide a succinct and informed perspective on the country’s key non-traditional sources of instability. The primary impediments to security in Afghanistan are the following:insurgency; rampant criminality (human trafficking, drug production and

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  • On the Move: Migration Challenges in the Indian Ocean Littoral

    On the Move: Migration Challenges in the Indian Ocean Littoral is the product of Stimson's work on migration over the past year, and it points to how the migration agenda is evolving and adapting to 21st century challenges. Traditionally, migration is separated into two major categories: voluntary, which is often economically motivated and sometimes temporary; and forced, which

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  • Muslim Indians: Struggle for Inclusion

    The stereotype of Muslim Indians is that of a relatively quiescent minority that has made its peace with its larger national non-Muslim context of contemporary India. Muslim Indians see something larger. They are heirs to a millenium long civilization, one of the greatest in modern history and an adornment to the history of Islam, replete with the highest philosophical,

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