Global Health Publications

Speaking Truth to Silence: There's Still a Place for the Demographic Case

Jul 07, 2011
Robert Engelman analyzes the human and environmental impact of population growth, particularly in the context of Niger and Kenya. more

PECS News Issue 2 (Spring 2000)

Jul 07, 2011
PECS News Issue 2 includes reports from events on environmental security in Africa, an article on integrating gender into WWF's programs in Nepal, and a review of Gunther Baechler's Violence Through Environmental Discrimination. more

Commentary: Should Global Poverty be a U.S. National Security Issue? (Part 1)

Jul 07, 2011
ECSP invited analysts to address whether global poverty should and can be a U.S. national security issue. more

Environmental Stress and Demographic Change in Nepal: Underlying Conditions Contributing to a Decade of Insurgency

Jul 07, 2011
The authors review the broad dynamics of Nepal’s current civil conflict, arguing that environmental stress and population factors have played significant roles in creating the underlying conditions for acute insecurity and instability. more

Environmental Stress and Human Security in Northern Pakistan

Jul 07, 2011
Environmental and social factors are generating high levels of conflict and insecurity in Northern Pakistan. more

ECSP Report 12: Reviews of New Publications

Jul 07, 2011
Experts review new publications. more

Migration as the Demographic Wild Card in Civil Conflict: Mauritius and Fiji

Jul 07, 2011
Analyzing demographic trends on the small-island nations of Mauritius and Fiji, Christian Leuprecht argues that "the impact of migration on conflict is a man-made problem; the way migration is managed (or not) can determine its potential for mitigating or escalating a conflict." more

ECSP Report 5: Official Statements

Jul 07, 2011
Excerpts from recent official statements in which environment and population issues are prominently cited in the context of security and national interests. more

Health, Population, and Fragility: Insights From a Meeting Series

Jul 07, 2011
The series seeks to broaden understanding of health and population issues as part of the problem and part of the solution to instability challenges, as well as foster debate about the correlations between fragility and population dynamics. more

ECSP Report 2

Jul 07, 2011
In the 1996 issue of ECSP's annual report, Miriam R. Lowi writes about water disputes in the Middle East; Dennis Pirages explores "microsecurity"; and Thomas Homer-Dixon discusses findings from a project on environment, population, and security. Complete report. more

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Way of the Knife

May 22, 2013 – May 29, 2013

This week on Dialogue at the Wilson Center our guest is Mark Mazzetti, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of the new book, “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.” We also spoke with Curtis Brainard, Editor of The Observatory, the Columbia Journalism Review’s “lens on the science press,” to survey the landscape of science journalism.

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