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2. Procurement Data and Safeguards: Looking Historically and to the Future
- Author:
- David Albright
- Publication Date:
- 11-2022
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS)
- Abstract:
- Because nuclear programs depend on procurements, understanding such procurements has become an important aspect of safeguards today. This paper looks back at the development of this approach and draws out lessons for tomorrow. Past cases, recounted using open source data and Institute archives, are drawn from, among others, Iraq Action Team investigations, Iran inspections during 2003-2006, the Khan Network investigations, and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. These cases illustrate important lessons about collecting and including procurement data more explicitly in state declarations and meeting inspection and monitoring goals. The cases also demonstrate the value of procurement data in facilitating the detection of irregularities in a nuclear declaration or verifying the correctness and completeness of a state’s nuclear declaration. These experiences and historical cases yield additional insights and lessons into ways to increase the usefulness of procurement data in future safeguards practices and methodologies.
- Topic:
- Security, Nuclear Weapons, Data, and Procurement
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3. Diversifying Supply Chains: The Role of Development Assistance and Other Official Finance
- Author:
- Conor M. Savoy and Sundar R. Ramanujam
- Publication Date:
- 06-2022
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS)
- Abstract:
- The Issue: The international political economy has undergone significant transformation since March 2020, profoundly impacting global supply chains and bringing to light the risks supply chains pose to economic development around the world. This brief explores some of these risks in detail and lays out the role foreign assistance can play in de-risking and diversifying supply chains by building capacity in new partner countries.
- Topic:
- International Cooperation, Political Economy, Foreign Aid, and Supply Chains
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus