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Transnational threats require “a much more expansive approach to international cooperation and multilateral institutions than has characterized US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War,” says Bruce Jones, Director and Senior Fellow of the New York University Center on International Cooperation and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

At a public lecture on June 5, 2009 at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Jones spoke about the prospects for managing global security under the leadership of US President Barack Obama.

He says the Obama administration is taking “a cooperative approach to international security,” one that emphasizes “global interconnection” and recognizes the importance of integrating emerging powers like India.

Jones also outlined challenges to this approach, such as the financial crisis, weak international institutions, and conflict with Iran.

A recognized authority on the United Nations (UN), international security policy, and global peace, Jones has served in several capacities at the UN, including deputy research director of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

Jones holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and was Hamburg Fellow in Conflict Prevention at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of numerous publications on the Middle East, Central Africa, and post-conflict peacebuilding. His most recent publication, with co-authors Carlos Pascual and Stephen Stedman, is Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Brookings Press, 2009).

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