Enhanced National Security through International Research Collaborations

摘要

National security today requires broad and effective engagement in the international arena. Many forums are available for such interaction, including formal participation in the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), diplomatic interchanges with other countries, collaborative work with Russia to secure Soviet-legacy nuclear materials, and even science and technology collaborations with regions or countries of strategic concern to the U.S. Myriad drivers push countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and many countries where proliferation or terrorism is of concern to the U.S. are located in regions of longstanding instability or political tensions, such as the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the Caucasus. A difficult but important challenge in these regions is to establish avenues of communication between adversaries.