Category: Environment and Biosecurity
30 Articles
- Environment and Biosecurity
Pyrophobia: Confronting a National Resistance to Proactive Fire Use
“You can’t fireproof the forest,” John Gould, former smokejumper and manager of the Alaska Fire Service, told me. There is simply too much land to manage and not enough…
April 10, 2024
- Environment and Biosecurity
- Intelligence & National Security
- Terrorism & Transnational Threats
Fentanyl and National Security: How the Opioid Crisis Intersects with Foreign Relations
The November 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco spurred renewed collaboration against the global fentanyl crisis. Notably, U.S. President Joe…
January 19, 2024
- Environment and Biosecurity
Burnt Out: Rethinking U.S. Wildfire Fighting Strategy
Wildfire in the United States is reaching a crisis point. As global climate change continues, every fire season is becoming longer and drier. However, despite the growing risk,…
December 4, 2023
- Environment and Biosecurity
- The Americas
Mad Max: Climate Change, the Panama Canal, and U.S. National Security
Rodolfo Sabonge served for 27 years as the Vice President for Planning and Development at the Panama Canal Authority. During the keynote remarks for the annual Climate…
October 31, 2023
- Environment and Biosecurity
- Sub-Saharan Africa
The Need for Private Investment to Tackle Climate Change in Africa
The evidence is clear: within ten years the world is likely to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold. Surpassing this threshold will significantly endanger…
June 8, 2023
- Environment and Biosecurity
Climate Change and Boots on the Ground: A New Frontier for Humanitarian Intervention?
Climate change is now at the forefront of the Pentagon’s priorities. So far, the U.S. military’s mission on climate change mitigation has focused on cleaning up and…
May 3, 2023
- Environment and Biosecurity
- Sub-Saharan Africa
Blame Governments, Not the Environment: How Political Failures Worsen the Effects of Climate Change in West Africa
With seven coups since 2020, West Africa is drawing global attention as a hotspot for conflict and a critical locus of discourse on climate security. Rising…
March 17, 2023
- Environment and Biosecurity
- Gender, Identity, and Security
Feeding the Hungry with Feminist Theory
Food security, when every person has access to enough food to meet their dietary needs for a healthy lifestyle, is more important now than ever before. It’s estimated …
January 9, 2023
- East Asia & Indo-Pacific
- Environment and Biosecurity
The Future of The Indo-Pacific Through the Lens of Demographics
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s ballistic missile launch on November 19 was not a typical launch test. What surprised the world that day was not its latest…
January 3, 2023
- East Asia & Indo-Pacific
- Environment and Biosecurity
- The Americas
PRC’s Renewed Soft Power Strategy and U.S. Global Health Security Efforts in Latin America
When Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power” in 1990, he could not have known how strongly the People’s Republic of China (PRC) would buy into the concept; China’s leader…
December 16, 2022