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Global Responses to Global Threats - excellent report |
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Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century - By Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda, June 2006. This excellent new report is the result of an 18-month long research project examining the various threats to global security, and sustainable responses to those threats.
Current security policies assume international terrorism to be the greatest threat to global security, and attempt to maintain the status quo and control insecurity through the projection of military force. The authors argue that the failure of this approach has been clearly demonstrated during the last five years of the 'war on terror' and it is distracting governments from the real threats that humanity faces.
Unless urgent action is taken within the next five to ten years, it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to avoid a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century. This report outlines a more sustainable approach.
Download full report as a printable pdf or purchase from: http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefings/globalthreats.htm
"Current US and UK foreign policy is totally counterproductive and is encouraging terrorism and proliferation of WMD. This report offers a serious alternative which would make the world safer and British people proud of our role in the world. I hope it is widely read."
Rt. Hon. Clare Short MP, UK Secretary of State for International Development (1997-2003)
Contents:
1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction: A Clear and Present Danger?
3. Climate Change
* The Social Impacts of Climate Change
* Nuclear is not the Answer
* Renewable Energy
4. Competition Over Resources
* The Resource Shift
* Oil and US Security
* Water Politics
5. Marginalisation of the Majority World
* The Security Implications of HIV/AIDS
* Socio-economic Divisions
* The 'War on Terror'
6. Global Militarisation
* Forces in Transition
* The 9/11 Attacks and After
* Weapons of Mass Destruction
7. Discussion: The Way Forward
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