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 policymakers. Nonetheless,
there remains a deep divide between developing and developed countries. Nations
of the Global South necessarily prioritize development objectives and regional
security concerns, such as improving public health, expanding trade, and
combating human, arms, and drug trafficking. Yet the North focuses the
lion’s share of its attention and resources on “hard security”
issues, including countering the spread and use of weapons of mass destruction
and preventing global terrorism.
The Managing
Across Boundaries program has been at the forefront of harnessing hard security
resources to bridge this security/development divide and mutually advance our
domestic and foreign policy objectives. MAB has developed a “dual benefit” model for engagement with the
Global South-one that can achieve realistic, sustainable programs that enable
developing countries to better meet their international obligations to
nonproliferation and counterterrorism, while simultaneously making progress toward addressing
their most pressing domestic security and development needs.
Select Publications and Events
- Bridging the Security/Development Divide: The Case of Chemical Security (Non-Proliferation Monthly, Special Issue 2013)
- Nonproliferation in a time of austerity (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 12, 2013)
- Courting the Global South with “Dual Benefit” Nonproliferation Engagement (The Nonproliferation Review, March 6, 2013)
- Closing the Nonproliferation Gap in the Global South (Carnegie podcast, March 6, 2013)
- The Turtle Bay Security Roundtable (Stimson conference series)
- Beyond Boundaries in Southeast Asia: Dual-Benefit Capacity Building to Bridge the Security/Development Divide (Stimson report, January 2013)
- Beyond Boundaries in the Andean Region: Bridging the Security/Development Divide with International Security Assistance (Stimson report, September 2012)
- Beyond Boundaries in South Asia: Bridging the Security/Development Divide with International Security Assistance (Stimson report, June 2012)
- Africa’s Quest: Bridging the security/development divide in an era of economic opportunity and mounting security challenges (Stimson event, May 1, 2012)
- Seminar for the Andean Region States: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (Stimson event, March 12-14, 2012)
- Bordering on Development (Newsmill, January 11, 2012)
- Proliferation Prevention: Bridging the Security/Development Divide in the Global South (Global Studies Review, Fall 2011)
- Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa: Bridging the Security/Development Divide with International Security Assistance (Stimson report, March 2011)
- Beyond Boundaries in the Middle East: Bridging the Security/Development Divide with International Security Assistance (Stimson report, September 2010)
- Beyond Boundaries in Central America: Bridging the Security/Development Divide with International Security Assistance (Stimson report, August 2010)