Development

When we talk about national security, we often focus on preventing wars, winning them, or deterring them. But security does not end when the shooting stops. What happens after a conflict can determine whether peace lasts and whether communities are actually able to recover. That is why Bryan Fok's new Security and Democracy Forum report, Balancing Livelihoods and Human Health: Limitations of Environmental Provisions in Peace Agreements (Download PDF), fits squarely within SDF

In recent decades, humans have transformed the Earth so much that we no longer live in the geologic epoch called the Holocene. Instead, many scientists believe that the Earth has entered a new geologic epoch called the Anthropocene, which is marked by a new stratigraphic layer in the Earth’s crust characterized by human creations, such as plastics, pollution, and radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons. Besides the changes to the geologic structure of the Earth, the conditio

Eye-catching headlines on trade and economic security gloss over the economic objective of trade: exchanging U.S.-made goods and services for those from foreign partners at an advantageous price benefiting both and boosting prosperity. No one country has the resources, nor inclination, to be fully self-sufficient especially as standards of living continue to rise. The current focus on domestic manufacturing and self-sufficiency ignores the additional economic benefits that