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This Working Paper highlights the US Treasury Department’s international roles with respect to non-G-20 developing countries. It views Treasury’s core competencies holistically in order to make recommendations as to how it might take full advantage of its considerable resources in order to: (1) more effectively perform what are currently its most prominent non-G-20 international roles of addressing international financial crises and combating illicit finance and (2) be better prepared institutionally to play the leading role in finance state-strengthening efforts in exceptional cases where a weak state poses an urgent national security threat such as Iraq or Afghanistan.