CNAS Energy Security Project
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Developing a New Approach to U.S. Energy Security:
A New “Solarium II Project” for the 21st Century
The original Project Solarium was a competitive strategy development process that is credited with helping articulate several pillars of American Cold War strategy. In 1953, President Eisenhower faced a situation similar to what we face today: how to develop a grand strategy for an uncertain future when the stakes are high and there is no obvious consensus on how to deal with the growing strategic threat.
The nation faces a similar challenge today on energy security, which will be one of the most important policy issues confronting the United States in the coming years. In partnership with the Markle Foundation, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will conduct a major study of the challenges posed by the complex intersection of growing energy demands, technological change, global instability, and U.S. national security. Using the methodological framework known as Solarium II, we will bring together every relevant community – scientific, corporate, national security, technical, and political – to fully explore the major and interdependent energy and security challenges facing the United States and the world. Because there is broad consensus on the nature of the energy problem, the Energy Security Solarium II Project will use the competitive strategy process to discern clear areas for cooperation and prioritization and determine trade-offs.
The results of this exercise will be a new framework to guide the nation’s energy policy and a newly-formed community of energy policy makers and practitioners of all backgrounds and professions to move forward together to overcome the energy security challenge.
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CNAS Energy Strategy Papers
 Joshua W. Busby, Assistant Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Associate Director, Rice University Energy Program
Jason Furman, Director, The Hamilton Project, The Brookings Institution
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Project News
On July 27-30, 2008, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will host an international climate change exercise in Washington, D.C., along with a Climate Change Consortium of seven organizations.
“While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar regions, tropical plants and animals may face an even greater threat.”
-UConn Researchers
Tropical species also threatened by climate change
Associated Press--October 9, 2008
“More than half the colonies of Antarctica's penguins, including
emperor penguins made famous by the Hollywood film "Happy Feet," face
decline or being wiped out if the world warms by 2 degrees
Celsius.”
-WWF Report
Warmer world threatens Antarctic penguins
Reuters--October 9, 2008
“Environmental
damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change
could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few
decades...”
Climate change could force millions from homes
Reuters--October 8, 2008
“...even if the human race could maintain today’s level of
atmospheric CO2, which stands at 385 ppm—not even halfway to the
atmospheric doubling we are headed for—sea level would rise several
meters thanks to the disintegration of continental ice sheets.”
-James Hansen, NASA
Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point
Scientific American--October, 2008
“Bird
flu, cholera, Ebola, plague and tuberculosis are just a few of the
diseases likely to spread and get worse as a result of climate
change...”
-Wildlife Conservation Society
Deadly by the Dozen: 12 Diseases Climate Change May Make Worse
Scientific American--October, 2008
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Margaret Kriz outlines the findings of the recently released ground breaking report, "Age of Consequences."
Climate change could be one of the greatest national security challenges ever faced by U.S. policy makers, raising the threat of dramatic migrations, wars over water and resources, and a realignment of power among nations, said a joint study by two U.S. think tanks.
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