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The GSC program promoted the production, integration and dissemination of the new knowledge needed to understand and meet the security challenges of the 21st century. The events of September 11th altered the context of global security issues, giving rise to new issues and refocusing attention on old ones. To address this new climate, the GSC program developed a diverse range of activities that revolved around the following themes:

Relationships between globalization and conflict, particularly with respect to large-scale structural influences such as changes in the global economy and state capacities to control violence;
The durability of political violence in many parts of the world, explored through an integrated, comparative analysis and policy recommendations based on field research;
Reframing the challenge of migration and security through the examination of the political, social, and economic impacts of post-9/11 homeland security policies on Muslim immigrant communities in America;
Problems of nuclear threats and responses in South Asia, the Korean Peninsula and the Persian Gulf, with particular attention to new possibilities for arms control, crisis stability, and multilateral institutions;
The effectiveness of "democratization," international law, and human rights throughout the world, and the role of the United States, Europe, international organizations, and civil society in promoting universal values;
Issues that transcend, bypass, or disrupt traditional state interests (and categories of international relations research) such as transnational activism, the viability of international legal institutions and other norms that regulate state behavior, global criminal networks, and other manifestations of the post-Cold War world.

The GSC program organized research workshops, formed collaborative research networks, and informed public debate on this broad array of concerns. Other activities of the broader Global Security and Cooperation program area continue and may be accessed via links to the left.