Enhancing international security through novel approaches of engagement
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Our Mission
The global system is passing through a major transition. We explore effective alternatives to military deterrence to strengthen global stability.
Conflict Prevention
Evaluating strategies that depend on threats and escalation, and finding safer means to achieve stability.
Economic Interdependence
Deepening economic interdependence with shared rules enforced by economic punishments.
Active Network
Working with policy makers, civil society, and grassroots groups to promote safer interstate relationships.
Rethinking Deterrence
Military deterrence sits at the heart of state defence postures and is often seen as essential for statecraft. Yet it is costly, dangerous, and less credible than is often assumed. It can drive arms races or deepen domestic support for aggressors, entrenching resistance to the threats it involves. States jockey with one another in an attempt to achieve dominance using deterrent threats, in a belief that the alternative is to be dominated. We need better, safer means to achieve stability.
Smart Sanctions
Targeted actions as weapons of deterrence.
Rules of the Road
Shared international standards.
Economic Bonds
Interdependence over isolation.
Diplomacy
Dialogue vs. confrontation.
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