Commentary: Should Global Poverty be a U.S. National Security Issue? (Part 1)
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Environmental Change and Security Program
ECSP invited analysts to address whether global poverty should and can be a U.S. national security issue. Is poverty alleviation crucial to national and global security鈥攁nd if so, which policies should be highlighted? Or would 鈥渟ecuritizing鈥 such efforts weaken both the drive against poverty and the drive for security? And can poverty be linked to anti-terrorism efforts? The commentaries below provide an excellent and overdue entr茅e into these debates. Commentaries by Vincent Ferraro, Carol Lancaster and Per Pinstrup Andersen.
Authors
Vincent Ferraro
Professor, International Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Carol J. Lancaster
Dean of the School of Foreign Service and a Professor of Politics, Georgetown University
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, Division of Nutrition, Cornell University
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
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