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The Missing Link: Regionalism as a First Step Toward Globalizing U.S. Environmental Security Policy
Author(s) -
Below Amy
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.259
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 1555-5623
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2007.00081.x
Subject(s) - environmental security , political science , national security , regionalism (politics) , security policy , security studies , foreign policy , environmental policy , international security , public administration , international trade , environmental resource management , politics , business , economics , law , computer security , computer science , democracy
Especially since September 11, 2001, national security has been a high policy priority for the United States. Unfortunately, this has come at the detriment of other policies and relationships with foreign nations, including its fellow North American neighbors, Canada, and Mexico. What the current U.S. administration has overlooked in its reprioritization of policy goals is the close relationship between security and environmental protection. This article discusses the need to more closely incorporate environmental and/or ecological security into a traditional notion of national security and it highlights the specific link between traditional conceptions of security and global climate change. The study additionally debates the question of U.S. participation in a North American environmental security agenda, namely one that coordinates efforts to address global warming.