International Security Publications
To Cultivate Peace: Agriculture in a World of Conflict
Jul 07, 2011In this article, the authors examine the post–Cold War pattern of conflict with a focus on the role of agriculture. more
Environment in the U.S. Security Debate: The Case of the Missing Arctic Waters
Jul 07, 2011This essay asks whether and if so how the United States might employ new understandings of security in the management of Arctic waters issues, and in responding even more particularly to the prospect of intensified use of Russia’s Northern Sea Route. more
New Directions in Demographic Security
Jul 07, 2011Complete set of commentaries on demographic security by Jack Goldstone, Richard Cincotta, Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, Clionadh Raleigh and Henrik Urdal, Christian Leuprecht, and Elizabeth Leahy. more
PECS News Issue 2 (Spring 2000)
Jul 07, 2011PECS News Issue 2 includes reports from events on environmental security in Africa, an article on integrating gender into WWF's programs in Nepal, and a review of Gunther Baechler's Violence Through Environmental Discrimination. more
Population Age Structure and Its Relation to Civil Conflict: A Graphic Metric
Jul 07, 2011The authors use population age structure and recent history of civil unrest to project risks of civil conflict into the future. more
Towards Tolerance, Law and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa
Jul 07, 2011Although violence against foreign nationals and other ‘outsiders’ has been a longstanding feature of post-Apartheid South Africa, the intensity and scale of the May 2008 attacks were extraordinary. What started off as an isolated incidence of antiforeigner violence in Alexandra on 11 May, quickly spread to other townships and informal settlements across the country. more
Global Drug Trafficking: Africa's Expanding Role
Jul 07, 2011Africa's role in the drug trafficking industry is a strong testament to the interplay of supply and demand market expansion, to the hybridization of transnational organized crime syndicates, as well as to the need for a paradigm shift in domestic, regional and international approaches to drug trafficking interdiction. On May 28, 2009, the Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center convened a conference to assess the situation of international drug trafficking and the increasingly important role that Africa plays. more
The Fog of Law: Pragmatism, Security, and International Law
May 01, 2010Focusing on questions of state security, The Fog of Law considers the nature of obligation in international law. In so doing, it challenges the prevailing theories of obligation based on natural law or positive law approaches. more
