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• Rare Earths and U.S. National Security: What You Need to Know

  If you have been following the news the last couple of weeks, you probably watched the showdown unfold between China and Japan in the East China Sea. On September 7, the Japan...

• Where Did Alex Go? A Natural Security Blog Alum Update

  You may often wonder to yourself, what happens to our natural security bloggers when they leave CNAS? In particular, what happened to Alex Stark? As it turns out, she's in Chi...

• This Weekend’s News: Baghdad is Abuzz without Electricity

  As I was perusing the news this weekend, this headline from the Sunday Washington Post caught my eye: “In Iraq, the Frustrating Sound of Generators.” Since there has been – un...

• Tom Ricks, China’s Minerals Diplomacy and Us

  Our fabulous colleague Tom was kind enough to link to the Natural Security Blog from his non-CNAS home at Best Defense. Prompting him was Business Week's article on China's co...

• Robert McFall

  Rob is the Senior Director of the Energy Storage Staff at Albemarle Corporation, one of the largest suppliers of lithium in the world. He supports the president of the Energy ...

• Oriana Skylar Mastro

  Oriana Skylar Mastro is a doctoral candidate in the Politics department at Princeton University, where she focuses on military operations and strategy, war termination, and No...

• For China and Japan, a Row over Resources?

  Tensions are on the rise in the East China Sea, with recent events embroiling states with long-standing mistrust: China and Japan. Recall that back in July we reported here on...

• Join Us on The Hill Next Wednesday!

  Hey Readers, If you work within the natural resources and national security/foreign policy world, you may want to join us on the Hill next Wednesday at noon for a lunch discus...

• CRS: Pakistan’s Resource Issues = Concerning

  A third pat on Congressional Research Service’s back this week, now for its August 3rd “Security and the Environment in Pakistan.” For full disclosure, I also have a pending a...

• CNAS Releases New Publications on Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)

  Washington, D.C., September 16, 2010 – President Obama, Secretary Gates, Secretary Clinton and other Administration officials have called for more effective and capable diplom...

• CRS on REEs

  This past July, while we weren’t looking, Congressional Research Service issued a report called “Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain” (pdf warning). I thought we’d us...

• This Weekend's News: The Many Troubles of Water

  Water was the frontrunner theme in this weekend's news. We even had a few comics with water-related punchlines. Via the Wilson Center's Geoff Dabelko on Twitter, Steven Solom...

• South Asia’s Geography of Conflict

  September 8, 2010 - In South Asia’s Geography of Conflict, CNAS Senior Fellow and acclaimed author Robert D. Kaplan provides a detailed analysis of South Asia's history and ge...

• South Asia's Geography of Conflict | Robert Kaplan

  In this exclusive interview, CNAS Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan discusses his new report, South Asia’s Geography of Conflict.  Kaplan argues, “As the U.S. and China become gr...

• Floods in Pakistan and the Importance of Natural Security

  If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in my time at CNAS working with the Natural Security team, it’s that climate events and natural disasters around the world (along with i...

• This Weekend's News: Another Side of the Same Stories

  Crop failures during the 2005 food shortage in Niger, as compared to 2004.  This year's crisis is predicted to be worse. Photo: NASA-Earth Observatory For the past few weeks, ...

• Climate Risks: Lessons from 2010’s Extreme Weather

  This post was originally published yesterday by the Climate Compass blog at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change where Dr. Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of ...

• This Weekend's News: Challenges and Opportunities for US Soft Power

  Two articles this weekend especially caught my attention.  The first, an article in The New York Times, starts to draw the climate connections between the extreme weather even...

• This Weekend’s News: Wow, There Sure Was a Lot of Bad News This Weekend

  This is shaping up to be a summer marked by its extensive natural disasters around the world. In addition to the heat waves, projections hinting at a bad hurricane season in t...

• Could Security Concerns Change Global Attitudes with Countries Straddling the Climate Divide?

  Could Russian President Medvedev’s recent statement on climate change be the beginning of a change in attitude among skeptical world leaders (and others in their country) that...