Undermining Efforts to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: International Governance on the Cheap (Richard Cupitt, Stimson Center)

Constrained and sometimes arbitrary financial support from member states to many international organizations, particularly those with critical international security functions, risks shortchanging their long-term confidence and makes balanced and objective planning difficult. For organizations devoted to countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, this can negatively impact the deliberation and diligence they require to investigate, analyze and act against state or other actors seeking to unbalance global security norms and architecture. The United States has a pivotal role to play in building support for a global WMD nonproliferation system that works to support U.S. national interests and global security. This will also necessarily involve building international consensus on institutions that do not provide good nonproliferation value-for-money, and seek to reform those organizations so they work towards the common good.

Undermining Efforts to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: International Governance on the Cheap • Stimson Center