Security and Defense Publications
Toward a Society Under Law
Jul 07, 2011The first part of the book covers general themes related to crime, including the impact of community policing, the role of advocacy networks, urban social policies and crime, and the cost of crime. The second part includes case studies of police reform, community policing, Argentina's plan for crime prevention, and crime in Mexico City. more
From Planting Trees to Making Peace: The Next Steps for Environment, Population, and Security
Jul 07, 2011Complete set of commentaries on the future of environmental security by Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Jared Diamond, Margaret Brusasco-Mackenzie, Erika Weinthal, Richard Cincotta, Roger-Mark De Souza, Richard Matthew, and Bryan McDonald. more
ECSP Report 7
Jul 07, 2011The Environmental Change and Security Project's 7th annual Report explores the connection between conflict and hunger, and looks at environmental stress and human security in Northern Pakistan. This issue also includes commentaries on the National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2015 report; and a special forum addressing the question: Is there a population implosion? Complete report. more
Forest Plunder in Southeast Asia: An Environmental Security Nexus in Burma and Cambodia
Jul 07, 2011The root causes of the threats to much of Asia’s biological diversity, particularly in the region’s more unstable and authoritarian countries, can be generalized in three words: conversion, consumption and corruption. more
61. MAP Reading: NATO's and Russia's Pathways to European Military Integration
Jul 07, 2011As part of NATO’s and Europe’s continuing and open-ended processes of enlargement and military-political integration, in 1999, NATO presented aspiring members with a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to guide them in their activities preparing their governments and armed forces for membership in NATO. The MAP, if fulfilled according to NATO's requirements and approbation, allegedly would make the aspiring members’ military forces more nearly congruent or interoperable with NATO forces. With this document, NATO has arguably created its own version of the EU's acquis communautaire “against which the Alliance can assess the technical preparations and capacities of the nine MAP partners and judge their readiness for membership.” more
ECSP Report 1: Feature Articles
Jul 07, 2011Includes table of contents, feature articles, and excerpts from official statements and documents. more
Political Geography: Special Issue on Climate Change and Conflict
Jul 07, 2011The journal Political Geography has devoted an entire issue to exploring the links between climate change and violent conflict. more
Mafia & Co.
Jul 07, 2011Mafia & Co. provides an analytical perspective of the inner workings and expansion of organized crime in three Latin American countries. The author provides a comparative investigation looking specifically at criminal networks in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. more
From Environmental Peacemaking to Environmental Peacekeeping
Jul 07, 2011While it is still not clear if environmental cooperation can lead directly to peace, we should explore the environment’s potential as a peacemaking tool in this increasingly unstable and conflictual world, writes Erika Weinthal. more
