The recent disaster in Myanmar has highlighted how some countries are much more susceptible to the impacts of severe weather events than others. Notably, there is some indication that destruction of coastal mangrove habitat may have contributed to the loss of life and property.
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Surin Pitsuwan, the Association of South-East Asian Nations [...]

Reuters posted an interesting article today discussing the refugees and attendant problems that will result from global climate change. This is a subject that has been gaining increasing attention, and it is worth noting as it becomes more prevalent in media discussions. What is especially refreshing about this particular article is that it focuses on [...]

 Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute gave a great lecture yesterday in Washington DC, in part based on his work with an Energy Task Force of the Defense Science Board, an institution devoted to transforming the nation’s armed forces to meet the demands being placed on them by a changing [...]

In the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa region, water management is a serious challenge due to its scarcity.  Countries are forced to cooperate over water since the costs are too greater to do otherwise.  Potential water conflicts exist or loom in existing trouble spots, such as between Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, between Israel, [...]

Countries have traditionally fought over resources, and continue to fight over resources; this is not a unique element of national security. The British, seeking to prevent the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company by the first democratically elected leader of Iran, requested the Americans to overthrow the democratic government and installed the Shah of [...]

Traditional thinking about national security originated in the cold war, with ideas of massive conventional attack launched from the Warsaw Pact and nuclear deterrence through mutually assured destruction.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new world order supposedly emerged, with a single superpower, the United States. Rather than seek to reach out to the [...]