Transnational Issues

The prominence of transnational issues in the first part of the 21st century cannot be understated. Energy politics, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and the substantial shift of power from the West to Asia--all are changing the parameters in which policy and investment decisions are formed and executed.

Emerging in the vacuum of sustained and disciplined global leadership, what once were secondary symptoms of international neglect are now driving forces on the international scene and must be addressed both as cause and effect. The great test of American leadership in the coming decades will be whether the United States can move beyond the vicious cycles of reaction to transnational crises and address the root causes that make them so potent.

The American Strategy Program's Transnational Issues cluster of initiatives seeks to understand, demystify, and provide solutions for the critical transnational threats and trends confronting the United States and the international order.

For more on our work on transnational issues, please click on the initiatives below:

• Global Governance Initiative
  
  
• Geopolitics of Energy Initiative
  
  
• Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative
  
  
• Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Initiative

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