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Introduction to Regional Voices

Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges is a project devoted to enhancing the information and analysis available to US policy makers about emerging transnational security challenges. The project develops knowledge and analysis of the perspectives of technical and subject experts, and political and strategic analysts.

Introduction by Project Director Amit Pandya
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The geographical range of the project’s work is the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Africa. The knowledge and analysis is developed by means of dialogue among experts from various disciplines and occupational backgrounds. The project's work includes the organizing of workshops in the regions, entering into research partnerships with regional institutions and individuals, carrying out interviews in the field, and research into the state of knowledge and thinking. It seeks the input of experts and practitioners who constitute new voices in the conversation with the US government. It does not shy away from perspectives which dissent from conventional wisdom, as long as they represent significant bodies of opinions in the countries of the regions. READ MORE »

Edited by Amit Pandya and Ellen Laipson

This volume presents views from disciplines as varied as science, journalism, economics, epidemiology, and on issues as diverse as fisheries, climate change, public health, and terrorism. It seeks to fill the gap in Americans' understanding of global security challenges by sharing the views of experts and activists from the Middle East and Asia.