The Solarium

A Blog from New America's Smart Strategy Initiative

Working Towards a More Sustainable Food System

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  • Claire McCleskey
April 26, 2012
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China’s Strategic Food Concerns

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  • Rei Tang
April 13, 2012
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In my last post, I wrote about the recent National Intelligence Council report on global water security. Here’s the gist of it:

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Strategic Resources: The NIC Looks at Water

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  • Rei Tang
March 30, 2012
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On March 22, the National Intelligence Council, a senior body of U.S. government intelligence analysts, released an unclassified report on global water security. The report assesses the effect of global water problems on geopolitics to 2040, the next thirty years. Annual global water requirements will reach 6,900 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2030, 40 percent above current sustainable water supplies.

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The Business Case for Sustainability

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  • Rei Tang
March 19, 2012
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The MIT Sloan Management Review in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group recently released a report, “Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point.” In a survey of over 4,000 managers from 113 countries, the study found “70% of companies have placed sustainability permanently on their management agendas.”

Sustainability is here and it is the future. It is transforming companies, commercial networks, and industries. Will the tipping point soon reach government?

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Sustainability as a Strategic Imperative

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  • Patrick C. Doherty
May 13, 2011
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America should “pursue her enduring interests of prosperity and security through a strategy of sustainability that is built upon the solid foundation of our national values.” These are the conclusions of Navy Captain Wayne Porter and Colonel Mark “Puck” Mykleby of the Marine Corps, in a paper released last month by the non-partisan Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

Don't Take the Bait: Focus on Egypt

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  • Patrick C. Doherty
March 18, 2011

I could not help notice last night that Russia and China abstained from the UN Security Council vote on the intervention in Libya. 

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Grand Strategy and U.S. Policy Toward South Asia

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  • Patrick C. Doherty
February 25, 2011

Today I will be discussing American grand strategy and U.S. policy toward South Asia at the Santa Fe Institute. Check out the event page here, where the proceedings will eventually be posted. Thanks to Bill Frej and Chris Wood for the chance to join the conversation.

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The Next Boom: Building the Foundation of a New Strategic Era

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  • Patrick C. Doherty
October 25, 2010
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I am very excited that Paul Glastris and the good folks at The Washington Monthly have published my latest piece, co-authored with my colleague Chris Leinberger of the Brookings Institution. It's called The Next Real Estate Boom: How housing (yes, housing) can turn the economy around.

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Reading Beyond the Poll

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  • Patrick C. Doherty
October 4, 2010
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The strategic implications of our recent poll of public opinion in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are many and layered, but taken together, should point Washington toward a policy capable of meeting a broader set of U.S. interests in the region.

Leveraging Afghanistan's Riches

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  • Patrick C. Doherty
June 15, 2010
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How should Kabul use Afghanistan's mineral wealth to help the people of Afghanistan? The good folks at CNN.com were kind enough to publish an article I wrote responding to the significant, if not new, opportunity provided by the estimate of up to $1trillion dollars worth of minerals, including such important ones as copper and lithium, in the territory of Afghanistan. 

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