Global Responses to Global Threats:
Sustainable Security for the 21st Century
Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda, June 2006
This major report was 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.
Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction: A Clear and Present Danger?
- Climate Change
• The Social Impacts of Climate Change
• Nuclear is not the Answer
• Renewable Energy
- Competition Over Resources
• The Resource Shift
• Oil and US Security
• Water Politics
- Marginalisation of the Majority World
• The Security Implications of HIV/AIDS
• Socio-economic Divisions
• The 'War on Terror'
- Global Militarisation
• Forces in Transition
• The 9/11 Attacks and After
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Discussion: The Way Forward
- Glossary
This report was published as part of our Moving
towards sustainable security project.
Availability
Download as an eBook
Download as a PDF in English
or Spanish
Purchase from ORG’s online
shop
You can also download the Executive Summary and Introduction in
French, or the
Climate Change chapter in Chinese.
The report has also been published in Thai by Kobfai Publishing
Project - if you would like to order a copy, please email
the publisher.
