OVER the past decade or more, global security concerns have focused on developments in the Middle East, and the situation there remains worryingly volatile.
U.S stocks moved higher during the second half of Wednesday's session to finish the session mixed, as investors shrugged off global security concerns and focused on better data out of the housing sector and a big jump in durable goods for February.
Not only are women rarely part of diplomatic negotiations, but a statistical chasm exists where global security is concerned.
As the Syrian refugee crisis mutated from a regional problem to a global one, security concerns have increasingly been cited as a justification for keeping borders closed and refusing to resettle migrants.
I'm with Karlsson in his comment that blaming global food security concerns on distribution and storage--a meme straight out of the most ill-informed factions of the anti-GMO movement (here, here and here), is "ignorant in the extreme".
Integrating ecosystem processes occurring at large spatial scales into the design of agricultural landscapes with the aim of improving productivity while decreasing the negative impact of agricultural practices on the environment is increasingly recognized as key to addressing global food security concerns (Bianchi et al. 2006; Tscharntke et al. 2012; Bommarco et al. 2013).
ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON ADAM SEGAL Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 10, 2001 The writers are, respectively, a professor of government at Harvard University and a global security analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Moving out towards larger scales we address local service discovery and syndication, and show how these principles carry through to global operation where security concerns dominate.
But according to this school of thought, a foreign policy that strives to address global gender inequity should in fact be on the agenda of any politician concerned with global security.
"There are some who want to create a treaty crisis to push the process and get the tests," said Tom Z. Collina, director of global security for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
