3D Security Initiative

In his chapter in the Center for Global Development's new book "The White House and the World" Stewart Patrick of the Council on Foreign Relations writes:

"It is no longer possible for the world’s richest and most powerful country to remain indiff erent to the fate of
the planet’s impoverished, insecure, and misgoverned countries. On both moral and strategic grounds, the United States has a stake in promoting development—broadly conceived as effective institutions capable of delivering economic growth, human security, and good governance—in the world’s most fragile countries. One of the principal foreign policy priorities for the next U.S. administration must be to formulate a more balanced approach to addressing the inextricably linked security, governance, and development challenges in failing, failed, and war-torn states. This new strategy must place more emphasis on prevention than on reaction and rely at least as much on civilian as on military instruments."

Click here to read the entire chapter that lays out this new vision of US foreign policy and conflict prevention.