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Sustainable Security

Sustainable security redefines how we think about national security in today's shifting, globalized world. Instead of focusing solely on traditional threats, we also need to help spur greater prosperity, encourage effective international development, and work to protect innocent civilians. Such an approach is good for us and good for others. In short, sustainable security is thinking long term about America and the world.
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Haiti’s Changing Tide Report
Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Task Force 2 Search and Rescue team have a meeting to prepare to leave for Haiti to help in that country's devastating earthquake. (AP/Francis Specker)

Haiti’s Changing Tide

Report from Reuben Brigety and Natalie Ondiak lays out a sustainable security strategy for Haiti that would initiate a virtuous circle of development in the country.

Reuben Brigety, Natalie Ondiak

Sustainable Security 101 Report
Children play hopscotch at Motjane, just outside the Main Swaziland capital, Mbabane. Sustainable security is a bold rethinking of national security that introduces the notions of collective and human security and rebalances the three tools of foreign policy—defense, diplomacy, and development. (AP/Denis Farrell)

Sustainable Security 101

A 101 gives the basics on what sustainable security is and why we need this new model to protect U.S. national security and further our foreign policy objectives.

Strategic Persistence Report
Police cordon off the area where protesters show letters detailing their complaints, displaying a banner that reads "Safeguard human rights" outside of the Foreign Ministry in Beijing. (AP/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Strategic Persistence

Report from William Schulz details how the United States can work to help improve human rights in China.

William F. Schulz

Putting Aid and Trade to Work Report
A dried food seller with a friend at a makeshift shop during the Afghanistan Agricultural Trade Fair sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development and the Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce. The two-day fair aimed to promote the country's agriculture products and find suitable foreign markets for them. (AP/Musadeq Sadeq)

Putting Aid and Trade to Work

Sabina Dewan and Reuben Brigety discuss how to foster sustainable security with international development.

Sabina Dewan, Reuben Brigety

The Cost of Reaction Report
A soldier from the Sudan People's Liberation Army carries his son in the streets of Yei, Juba, Southern Sudan. Almost half the displaced in Southern Sudan are children. (IRIN/Manoocher Deghati)

The Cost of Reaction

The third in a series of reports on sustainable security examines a new long-term strategy for delivering aid to countries in crisis as opposed to a reactive approach.

Andrew Sweet, Natalie Ondiak

In Search of Sustainable Security Report
Military personnel from the USS Abraham Lincoln battle group load relief goods of food and water onto a Seahawk helicopter in Banda Aceh along the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. (AP/Richard Vogel)

In Search of Sustainable Security

This report, the first in a series of six, provides analysis and recommendations for a new approach that combines national security, human security, and collective security.

Gayle Smith

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