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Getting Smart and Scaling Up: Responding to the Impact of Organized Crime on Governance in Developing Countries

Organized crime, public and private sector corruption, and the involvement of political actors in criminal activity are all long-standing features of political societies, regardless of country. But for developing countries, addressing these issues takes on heightened urgency and complexity: organized crime can derail development progress and foster broader insecurity. Delinking organized crime from politics while enhancing legitimate governance and the delivery of services will remain the most important challenge for many developing countries.

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Kofi Annan, Syria and the Uses of Uncertainty in Mediation

March 16, 2013 marks the one year anniversary of Kofi Annan's presentation of his six-point peace plan for Syria at the United Nations. In an article in the journal Stability , Richard Gowan takes this opportunity to reflect on Annan's role as mediator and the effect that uncertainty has in conflict resolution.

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Mar 15, 2013
Richard Gowan
Middle East, Syria
Arab Awakening, Crises, United Nations
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

US-China Study Group on G-20 Reform

In late 2011, the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, the Center for American Progress, and the Stanley Foundation formed a study group of US and Chinese experts, including CIC Director Bruce Jones, to evaluate the role of the G-20 in the US-China bilateral relationship as well as how the relationship influences the G-20. After meeting for two conferences over the course of 2012, the group reached consensus on a set of recommendations to improve the efficacy of this important body.

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Mar 11, 2013
Bruce Jones
China, United States
Emerging Powers, G8 and G20, Global Governance

Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.

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Mar 04, 2013
Christine Wing, Fiona Simpson
East Asia, Middle East, Libya, South Africa
Global Governance, International Security

Goals in a Post-2015 Development Framework

During the January 2013 meeting of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Liberia, CIC released an options brief by Senior Fellow David Steven on the role that global goals can play in a new development framework.

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Feb 01, 2013
David Steven
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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