Stimson Center 2013 Environment and Security Discussion Series
For the 2013 Environment and Security Discussion Series, the Stimson Center invites experts to share their opinions on how environmental issues affect security policy trends on both national and international levels. During the kick-off event on 22 April 2013, CNA’s Senior Vice President Sherri Goodman and the Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Stimson, Richard Cronin named several pressing security challenges brought about by climate change, the water-energy-food nexus and the need for sustainable development in strategically significant regions. Please watch the discussion here. International conflicts linked to natural resource usage and demand were the topic of the second event on 11 June with Jeff Colgan, an oil geopolitics expert from American University’s School of International Service, and with the Director of Stimson’s Environmental Security Program, David Michel. The video is also available.
