Sustainability and National Security

The challenges of the future require the military and its leaders to possess agility to ultimately be suc- cessful. This agility ...

Brown, Lester R. 2011. The New Geopolitics of Food, For- eign Policy, May/June 2011. Glenn, Jerome C., Gordon, Theodore J, and F ...

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Sustainability: A Lens for National Security Kent Hughes Butts and Brent C. Bankus 2 ...

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Introduction At the strategic level the concept of sustainability has significant value as an explanatory variable in national s ...

Common Definitions Most definitions of sustainability relate to pro- cesses in pursuing resource sufficiency. In view of the U.S ...

ucts require access to clean water resources. Coca Cola created the Global Water Resource Manager po- sition and wrote a water s ...

that terrorists seek to exploit. Sustainability of a state’s resource base was essential for state governments to meet demands p ...

longer reliable? Will the military that once defended its state borders be forced to deal with violent intra- state conflict bet ...

of alliances, supply sources, state stability and region- al stability. Thus, sustainability affects U.S. National security at b ...

na. Population growth is often mentioned but rarely given the recognition that it deserves as an element of security. In 1900 th ...

African leaders while failing to provide sustainable development and political stability. For example, in March of this year, th ...

other resources such as columbium-tantalum, cassit- erite and the DRC’s vast rain forest (Global Witness 2011). The recognition ...

existed for centuries in some cases. European powers did not consider the sustainability of future indepen- dent African states. ...

and is reducing its exposure by pursuing a policy of equity ownership of mining and energy resource deposits and companies. Thus ...

Smart Power In 2007 a bi-partisan committee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), head- quartered in Was ...

may vary but generally include Information, Diplo- matic, Legal, Intelligence, Financial or Environmental for the development of ...

described soft power as “a nation’s use of co-operative programs and monetary aide to persuade other na- tions to ascribe to its ...

as the DoS and the United States Agency for Interna- tional Development (USAID) are less so. Neither is properly funded or resou ...