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① Armed conflict and conflict management, including in the fields of resource-conflict linkages, Arctic security, regional conflict (especially regarding Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East), and peace operations.
② Arms control and nonproliferation, including in the fields of nuclear, biological, chemical weapons and technology proliferation, ballistic missiles and missile defense, and dual-use and other sensitive trade controls.
③ Conventional arms trade, including in the fields of monitoring international arms transfers, transparency in international arms transfers and procurement, and controlling international arms transfers, both with regard to major conventional weapons and small arms and light weapons.
④ Military spending and arms production, including in monitoring and analyzing security sector spending and accountability regionally and worldwide, and tracking and assessing developments in the global arms and military services industry.
⑤ Transport and security, including monitoring, assessing, and stemming illicit trafficking and destabilizing flows such as weapons, natural resources, contraband, and other commodities.
⑥ Global health and security, including asessing potentially dangerous diffusion of bioscientific knowledge and technologies and analyzing the relationship between health and stability in fragile states.
⑦ China and global security, including analyzing China′s role in key regions and its approach to both emergent transnational security concerns and traditional security issues such as arms control and nonproliferation.
⑧ The applicability of web-based, interactive information technologies as research and learning tools in the above topic areas.
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