An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change
Chris Abbott | Oxford Research Group | January 2008
Issue:Climate change
Tag:report
Climate change will have serious environmental, socio-economic and security consequences for both developed and developing nations alike. This report explores these consequences and demonstrates that they will present new challenges to governments trying to maintain domestic stability. Those agencies tasked with protecting and sustaining national security will need to adapt to better cope with a changing global environment.
However, if governments simply respond with traditional attempts to maintain the status quo and control insecurity they will ultimately fail. As this report shows, the risks of climate change demand a rethink of current approaches to security and the development of sustainable ways of achieving that security, with an emphasis on preventative rather than reactive strategies.
Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
Issues:Global militarisation, Marginalisation
Tag:book
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- Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
- Author: Jason Burke
- Publisher: Penguin ()
- Binding: Paperback, pages
- Price: £8.99
Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century
Issues:Climate change, Competition over resources, Global militarisation, Marginalisation
Tag:book
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- Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century
- Author: Paul Rogers
- Publisher: Pluto Press ()
- Binding: Paperback, pages
- Price: £15.99
Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control
Issues:Climate change, Competition over resources, Global militarisation, Marginalisation
Tag:book
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- Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control (Contemporary Security Studies)
- Author: Paul Rogers
- Publisher: Routledge ()
- Binding: Paperback, pages
- Price: £22.99
Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda | Rider | April 2007
Issues:Climate change, Competition over resources, Global militarisation, Marginalisation
Tag:book
Many leading military analysts in the United States are increasingly alert to the link between security and climate change. Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security?
Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. In response, their dangerous policies attempt to maintain control and keep the status quo by using overwhelming military force. This important book shows why this approach has been such a failure, and how it distracts us from other, much greater, threats:
- Climate change
- Competition over resources
- Marginalisation of the majority world
- Global militarisation
Unless urgent, coordinated action is taken in the next 5-10 years on all these issues it will be almost impossible to avoid the earth becoming a highly unstable place by the middle years of this century. Beyond Terror offers an alternative path for politicians, journalists and concerned citizens alike.
For more information or to buy the book please click here.
Middle East Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone: Problems and Prospects
Issue:Global militarisation
Living in an era plagued by a nuclear threat and arms race, wherein nations continue to nurse the ambition of producing nuclear weapons or acquiring the means to do, nuclear disarmament is possibly the most vital issue in the field of global security.
There has been a global realization that nuclear disarmament is an important first step towards achieving general and complete disarmament at a later stage. A number of important steps have been taken towards achieving this end. However given the current international environment, the global non-proliferation regime faces challenges on the Korean peninsula and in the Middle East and when progress towards nuclear disarmament appears to have stalled, some believe that traditional instruments of non-proliferation policies have lost their relevance.
Article source: Indian Pugwash Society
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