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Transnational Threats Project
Terrorism and the confrontation with Islamist extremism is the focus of the Transnational Threats Project (TNT). TNT actively engages U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental specialists, and private sector representatives to identify innovative approaches to combat global terrorism and radical violence. The project brings together the public and private sectors to exchange information and improve practical efforts to increase awareness and knowledge of the terror threat. TNT’s network includes key intelligence and law enforcement agencies the world over, whose insights become part of the U.S. national security debate.


Areas of Focus

  • Terrorism
  • Counterterrorism
  • Intelligence
  • Global Transnational Threats
  • Open Source Information for the Intelligence Community
  • Public and Private Sector Information Sharing

Ongoing Initiatives


Trusted Information Network for Counterterrorism
Fifteen specialists in multiple fields related to terrorism that interact online to produce open source-based analyses of the roles activities and impact of Islamist extremists on European

Director of National Security Private Sector Engagement Initiative
Designed to promote exchange, in an unclassified forum, of ideas, experiences, perspectives, and knowledge about broad strategic threats of mutual concern to the Director of National Intelligence and corporate industry over the next 20 years.

Private Sector Advisory Group Assess threats overseas and to the homeland and look to ways to strengthen private sector and government responses to these challenges.

TNT Update Newsletter Provides little-publicized news about terrorism and global transnational threats developments around the world.

Briefings and Roundtables Conducts roundtables on terrorism and global transnational threats as well as briefings with US and foreign intelligence, law enforcement, and governmental officials, and ranking members of the academic and NGO communities both at CSIS and overseas.


Staff

Arnaud de Borchgrave
Director and Senior Adviser
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Thomas Sanderson
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow
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N. John MacGaffin III
Senior Adviser
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Jacqueline Harned
Adjunct Fellow

Jeff Jonas
Senior Associate
David Gordon
Program Coordinator and Research Assistant
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Contact Information

Program Coordinator and Research Assistant David Gordon
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202-775-7329

 

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