Global Security: New Dilemmas, New Solutions

Course Description

Emerging nations face a variety of security challenges, including food and energy shortages. How can we meet these increasing needs without depleting natural resources and damaging the environment? Fellows and researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute will describe the challenges and present ideas and projects that could lead to solutions.

Rosamond Naylor, PhD '89, is the Julie Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy and associate professor, by courtesy, of economics. She directs the Program on Food Security and the Environment, and her research focuses on the environmental and equity aspects of intensive food production.

Stephen Stedman, '79, MA '85, PhD '88, is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Center for International Security and Cooperation and professor, by courtesy, of political science. In 2003, Stedman served as the research director of the United Nations' High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and stayed on to help gain worldwide support for implementing the panel's recommendations. He returned to Stanford in 2005; his current research addresses the future of international organizations and institutions.

Mark H. Hayes, MA '02, PhD '07, is currently a Research Fellow with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources at Stanford University. Mark's research focuses on energy policy and particularly on the impact of liquefied natural gas imports on U.S. and European natural gas markets. He is an editor and co-author of Natural Gas and Geopolitics, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.