Center for Strategic Communication

GMOs Play a Key Role in Climate and National Security

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...

Australian Defense Force responds to Climate Change

On 28 October 2015, the Australian Climate Security Panel at the Australian Defense Force Academy discussed the security threats of climate change. Australian Defense Forces are increasingly working with the U.S. and U.K militaries on this issue. In the panel, Will...

Todd Stern Testifies on Impacts of Paris Negotiations

Todd D. Stern, the Special Envoy on Climate Change at the State Department and President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, testified on the economic and environmental impacts of the recent climate negotiations set to be finalized in Paris this December. The chairman...

What We Are Reading

Key Reads   Embattled Syrian President Flies to Moscow to Meet with Putin Andrew Roth, Erin Cunningham / The Washington Post Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ventured outside his beleaguered nation for the first time in more than four years Wednesday to meet...

Susan Rice Speaks at Stanford About Climate Change

On Monday, October 12, former ASP board member and current national security advisor Susan Rice spoke to a Stanford crowd about the ill effects of climate change and our global response to it. She began by noting our failure to adequately respond, and the consequences...