WHEN:
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130228/DC68405LOGO)
WHERE:
The Stimson Center
1111 19th Street, NW, 12th Floor
Washington, D.C.
WHO:
Jeffrey Colgan, assistant professor, School of International Service, American University
David Michel, director, Environmental Security Program, Stimson Center
Moderator: Ellen Laipson, president and CEO, Stimson Center
WHAT:
Colgan is an expert on oil geopolitics and author of the newly published "Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War" (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Michel is the co-author/editor of several recent reports on natural resource challenges in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Discussion will center on how states' development of natural resources impacts their foreign policy, human security, and political and social stability. What are the geopolitical and environmental implications of growing demands for the world's natural resources - energy, water, food? The event explores current resource development trends, international security, and environmental sustainability.
Media Contact:
Rich Robinson, Stimson deputy director of communications, communications@stimson.org or 202-478-3419
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- June 7, 2013/
SOURCE Stimson Center
