by Ricky Gandhi | Nov 3, 2015 | Monitor
Climate change has had notable impacts on our environment and national security, serving as a “threat multiplier,” according to the Department of Defense. The argument goes that climate change can exacerbate existing conflict by making already-scarce resources ever...
by Charlotte Baskin-Gerwitz | Oct 7, 2013 | Monitor
Recently, I wrote a piece on water insecurity as a climate-related threat; now I will discuss food scarcity and broader resource scarcity, mostly as related to agriculture, oil and minerals. Such scarcity has a high potential to cause conflict. The U.S. intelligence...
by William Joyce | Jun 20, 2013 | Monitor
Senate confirms Froman as next trade representative Jim Abrams / The Washington Post Michael Froman, a senior White House economic adviser and classmate of President Obama at Harvard Law School, won Senate confirmation Wednesday to be the next U.S. trade...
by Evan Meltzer | Jun 19, 2013 | Monitor
Authored by Evan Meltzer & Kareem Chin Yesterday, leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) concluded the 39th annual G8 Summit in Northern Ireland and published a final communiqué detailing their commitment to addressing food security and climate change. These issues...
by Evan Meltzer | Jun 10, 2013 | Monitor
On June 1, 2013, the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA) held its Semi-Annual Meeting & Symposium, in which the topics included farming and food security in Senegal and broader implications for the current crisis in the Sahel region. The panel proceeded to...