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<div class="views-field views-field-field-board-profile-company" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase;">=</div><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase;">We’ve still got exhausted, dusty, hungry sergeants and corporals and privates over there in Iraq. If they’ve got C-Span on the TVs in the mess halls, they’re still listening to defense intellectuals like Douglas Feith giving speeches at those think tanks in Washington, which are still holding symposiums. They’re still talking about our “strategic footprint,” and “pursuing peace through strength” and “offshore balancing” and how “the strength of the unilateral pre-eminence vision is that it appears to provide an opportunity to reassert U.S. leadership and stave off risks for U.S. security in a rebalancing world.” This from Gordon Adams, a “distinguished fellow” at the Stimson Center in Washington, who wrote something called “U.S. Global Engagement and the Military” for the Foreign Policy Association.</div><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase;">=</div><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase;">
</div><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase;">STIMSON CENTER</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-board-profile-about-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 25px 0px 0px;">Brian Finlay is the President and CEO at Stimson. His areas of expertise include nonproliferation, transnational crime, counter-trafficking, supply chain security and private sector engagement. Finlay is also an Adjunct Instructor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington.Prior to joining Stimson, Finlay served four years as executive director of a Washington-based lobbying initiative focused on counterterrorism issues, a researcher at the Brookings Institution, and a program officer at the Century Foundation. He was a project manager for the Laboratory Center for Disease Control/Health Canada, and worked with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He Chairs the Board of Directors of iMMAP, an information management and data analystics organization focused on improving humanitarian relief and development coordination. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Black Market Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that works to raise awareness around illicit global trade. Finlay also sits on the Editorial Board of Global Security, a journal of health, science and policy published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.Finlay has authored and co-authored numerous books, monographs and reports, and is widely published in academic and policy journals and magazines. He is frequently asked to provide expert analysis and commentary on transnational and development challenges to media outlets around the world.Finlay holds an M.A. from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, a graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University and an honors B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
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