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CloseCommentary: Should Global Poverty be a U.S. National Security Issue? (Part 1)
ECSP invited analysts to address whether global poverty should and can be a U.S. national security issue. Is poverty alleviation crucial to national and global security鈥攁nd if so, which policies should be highlighted? Or would 鈥渟ecuritizing鈥 such efforts weaken both the drive against poverty and the drive for security? And can poverty be linked to anti-terrorism efforts? The commentaries below provide an excellent and overdue entr茅e into these debates. Commentaries by Vincent Ferraro, Carol Lancaster and Per Pinstrup Andersen.
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Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
