The Nathan Hale Foreign Policy Society

Program in Trade, Security, and Development Examining interdependencies between trade, security, and development and issues on the interstices of these three fields.

Our Staff		A Map of Major World Trade Routes
Director Researchers	Rachel Belton University of Oxford Eoghan Stafford Harvard University Mara Tchalakov Princeton University
Our Research Projects		A Few Readings on Trade, Security, and Development
Securing Trade Flows and Facilitating Trade for Development: Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the Asian tigers, export-led development has become a mantra. Tariff reductions, however, have not been enough to jumpstart trade in developing countries plagued with poor infrastructure, a weak service sector, and problems with corruption and crime. Trade facilitation efforts to overcome these difficulties are now running up against efforts to secure trade flows from illicit transactions in the wake of September 11. Trade-flow security has since been seen by many developing countries as a thinly veiled barrier to trade. This paper looks at the synergies between trade-flow security and trade facilitation, as well as the development benefits that accrue from balancing these too goods. The Role Security and the Rule of Law Plays in Development Development professionals tend to shy away from military and law enforcement specialists. The enmity between these groups is often mutual. Security and the rule of law, however, are perhaps the most vital goods needed for sustainable development. This paper looks at the foundations that domestic security provides for development, and the threats that insecurity poses to development. It then considers what can be done to improve security in developing countries. The Impact of Underdevelopment on Domestic and International Security Underdeveloped countries have long been seen as charity cases—of moral concern, but not of national security importance. As transnational threats become national security worries, however, the problems that underdevelopment poses to international security, and to the domestic security of underdeveloped countries, are becoming acute. This paper examines the relationship between underdevelopment and security threats, both domestic and international.		Trade and Security Paul Collier, “The Market for Civil War,” Foreign Policy (May/June 2003) World Bank Research Project, The Economics of Civil War, Violence, and Conflict, led by Paul Collier http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/conflict/. Charles Glass, “The New Piracy,” London Review of Books, Vol. 25, No. 24, 18 December 2003. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/glas01_.html. Security and Development Paul Collier, “Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy,” (Washington: World Bank and Oxford UP: 2003). Frances Stewart and Valpy Fitzgerald, eds. War and Underdevelopment, (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001). Lindy Heinecken, “Strategic Implications of HIV/AIDS for South Africa,” Conflict, Security, and Development 1:1 http://csdg.kcl.ac.uk/Publications/assets/PDF%20files/Heinecken.pdf. Anthony Harriott, ed. Understanding Crime in Jamaica, (Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2004). Trade and Development Duncan Green and Matthew Griffith “Dumping on the Poor: The Common Agricultural Policy, The WTO, and International Development,” London: CAFOD, 2002) Dani Rodrik, “Trading in Illusions,” (Foreign Policy, March/April 2001) Trade, Security, and Development “Ranking the Rich” Foreign Policy (May/June 2003) Other Organizations Working on These Issues The World Bank, The Economics of Civil Wars, Crime, and Violence Research Project: http://wb.forumone.com/research/conflict/ The Conflict, Security, and Development Group http://csdg.kcl.ac.uk/Profile/html/profile.html International Peace Academy, The Security-Development Nexus: < http://www.ipacademy.org/

NATHAN HALE Program in Trade, Security, and Development