The Long Arm: How U.S. Law Enforcement Expanded its Extraterritorial Reach to Counter WMD Proliferation Networks

Open to the Public

A seminar with Aaron Arnold, Research Fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom and Daniel Salisbury, Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) at King’s College London and an Associate of the Project on Managing the Atom.

Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 Time: 10:00am - 11:30am Location: Littauer Building - Fainsod Room, 324

About

The networks of suppliers, financiers, shippers, and others involved in the illicit procurement of WMD-related goods and technologies often operate outside of the United States, which presents several legal and political challenges for the enforcement of U.S. trade controls. Aaron Arnold and Daniel Salisbury will provide an assessment of current U.S. approaches to the jurisdictional challenges of countering WMD-related illicit trade, and will discuss the broader implications of extraterritorial enforcement for global nonproliferation efforts. They find that although conducting extraterritorial enforcement demonstrates a strong commitment to controlling the spread of WMD-related goods and technology, and that U.S. tools and efforts in this area are expanding, such actions can also erode trust and may undermine cooperative efforts to ensure consistent implementation of norms and obligations, like those found in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540.