The scope of national security is expanding beyond violent threats to encompass a broader array of dangers. In an article for World Politics Review, CFR's...
Intelligence analysts have agreed since the late 80s that climate change poses serious security risks. A series of authoritative governmental and non...
The report, requested by the US Congress in 2017, drew sharp criticism for being too thin on details and failing to show which bases are most at risk across the...
Iraqi Kurdistan is blessed with abundant water resources, but these resources are under increasing stress. Changing demographics, dam building in neighboring...
In November 2017, the U.S. government released its first ever Global Water Strategy – to our knowledge also the first of its kind globally. The opening page...
European Union leaders must heap pressure on Donald Trump over his climate change scepticism because global warming poses a global security threat, a retired US...
There may not have been a single question about climate change in the 2016 presidential debates, but it remains a hotly contested, partisan issue for many in...
Climate change is projected to produce more intense and frequent extreme weather events, multiple weather disturbances, along with broader climatological...
Yesterday afternoon President Obama announced a new Presidential Memorandum on climate change and national security. The policy directs 20 federal agencies to...
In this speech at the Climate Change and Security: Fragile State Conference, Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, points out the connections...
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a “U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic...
This report sustains that the current and future U.S. engagement with the Asia-Pacific region needs to consider the effects of climate change in order to build...