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Iran & the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Alex and I were both out at a thing Wednesday evening so we’re going to take it easy today and just give you all a little food for thought. I’ll call it my Ode to Will since ...
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This Weekend’s News: Minerals in Afghanistan & Two Approaches to Considering Natural Security
Much has been said of last week’s big minerals-in-Afghanistan news. Most critiques of the timing of the news and of the many difficulties in producing these potential reserves...
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Like a Rolling Stone
I picked up last week’s Rolling Stone for its cover story on the reissue and forthcoming documentary of Exile on Main St., but another story listed on the cover piqued my inte...
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Natural Security in the National Security Strategy
The big headline of the national security strategy, to me, is the major role conferred upon natural resources issues, for example reducing oil dependence, addressing climate c...
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We Review the NDAA Part I: Rare Earth Minerals
I’ll begin our week of pointing to important aspects of the draft National Defense Authorization Act today with Section 835 (Scribd below) which requires DOD to assess any rar...
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Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change
Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, ...
By Alexander T.J. Lennon, Christine Parthemore, Derek Mix, J.R. McNeill, Jay Gulledge, John Podesta, Julianne Smith, Leon Fuerth, Peter Ogden, R. James Woolsey, Richard Weitz & Sharon E. Burke
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Yemen and Natural Gas: What’s Up With That?
Last week I had the privilege of speaking with a group of a few dozen government officials from Yemen. They were all concerned about water, the lack of biodiversity in their c...
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Revisiting Waziristan
Yesterday I swung by CSIS for their fifth installment of their Game Changers and Visionaries series. The topic at hand yesterday had been innovations in the energy sector and ...
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Pakistan & China, BFF
In honor of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to Washington this week, we will be focusing the blog on Afghanistan and Pakistan (given the consensus that the later is crit...
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This Weekend’s News: Continuing Saga of the Oil Spill
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is still the dominant and more important story on energy nearly every day. This weekend, coverage of the massive oil spill included some use...
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Events from Around Town: China's Appetite for Raw Materials and Energy
Today we'll be giving you a double dose of blog-ness, with postings from Will and myself. Today, I'll recap an event I attended on Wednesday across the street at the Wilson C...
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Top 5: U.S.-Asian Technical Assistance Programs
In celebration of the Natural Security Blog’s unofficial Asia Week, we thought it might be interesting to dig through some of the ongoing cooperative programs between the U.S....
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This Weekend's News: Energy, Nonproliferation, and More Energy
This week (and those ahead) we’ll be watching news from the NPT conference for discussions on the intersections of energy and nonproliferation. You may be asking, “What does t...
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This Weekend's News: Niger, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and South Africa
What do these countries have in common? For the purposes of this blog post, they were all featured in important natural security news over the weekend. Let’s start with Frid...
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What do Carol Browner, Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, David Kilcullen, Robert Kaplan and I Have in Common?
We will all be speaking at CNAS's huge - huge - event next Wednesday on natural resources and security! This is public, dear readers, and your chance to be in the room for the...
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Reading Rainbow
We sent our new report off to the printer at OOB yesterday (well, our fearless designer/producer, the intrepid Liz Fontaine did), so I’ve been trying to catch up on my massive...
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This Weekend's News: China and Latin America and The Onion
We have been pumping hard on some writing deadlines last week and through the weekend, so this is going to be short and sweet. After laboring to wrap up our series on how clim...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Michael Nash
I recently had the good fortune to drop by the British Embassy for a viewing of filmmaker Michael Nash’s most recent film Climate Refugees. After the event, I had a chance to ...
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Read This Now: Nat Geo’s Special Issue on Water
As the headline states, I recommend to anyone reading this blog that they give a glance to the current special edition of National Geographic on water issues. It highlights wa...
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Breaking the Safe Haven: Minerals in Waziristan
Yesterday’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Peshawar has brought the insurgency in western Pakistan back into the headlines. The consulate serves as the headquarters for ongoi...