the CRISIS PROJECT

New security threats pay no attention to national borders. Organised crime, infectious disease, climate change, and international terrorism are all channelled by increasingly mobile and inter-connected populations. Government bureaucracies are struggling to adapt, as populations and markets become increasingly vulnerable. It is a defining crisis in modern governance: the Transnational Crisis Project exists to provide solutions.

An independent, non-profit social enterprise harnessing the power of a human network across 54 countries, CrisisProject conducts research deep within the social networks from which transnational security threats emerge. Its objective is to develop comprehensive strategies for decision-makers worldwide - and to create, in direct co-operation with local populations, the on-ground capacities to achieve positive and sustainable change. 

Population-Centric Foreign Affairs

In the modern world, people matter. State-to-state relations are no longer enough. From development to public diplomacy to economic sanctions, the Transnational Crisis Project analyzes the means through which governments direct their foreign policy to populations, giving rise to an important sphere of population-centric foreign affairs.   Read More

Markets, Failures, & Insurrection

As globalization enhances the interdependencies of markets and commerce, failures in public and private systems that lead to shortages in commodities and services spread across borders.  From food shortages to insufficiencies in government programs, the divide between expectations and realities can lead to severe instability.  Read More

Transnational Criminal Enterprise

Gun-running, CBRN non-state development and smuggling, and the narcotics trade pose considerable threats, both as accelerants and threats of first-impression. The Crisis Project network is dedicated to identifying these threats and producing hard policy proposals to address them strategically.   Read More

International Terrorism & Insurgency

There may be no greater transnational security threat in the immediate term than that posed by the 'Global Jihadi Movement' and its constituent elements around the world.  The Transnational Crisis Project embraces the complexity involved in its many regional and local manifestation to produce coherent counterstrategy.   Read More

Infectious Disease

Infectious disease poses a grave threat to transnational security. From H5N1 avian influenza to AIDS, core national security implications for governments around the world are real.  Capacities for prevention, detection, and containment remain limited.  Comprehensive strategies are needed.   Read More

Climate Change & Security

Global climate change is real. But the effects of such shifts in the environment have concrete national security implications for a wide range of nations around the world. For some the threat may even prove existential in scope.   Read More