Zmiany klimatu jako zagrożenie dla bezpieczeństwa narodowego w świetle dokumentów administracji amerykańskiej XXI wieku
Climate Change as National Security Threat in the 21st Century as Seen from the US Strategic Documents Perspective
Author(s): Maciej HacagaSubject(s): Physical Geopgraphy, Environmental and Energy policy, Security and defense
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: climate policy; climate change; national security; United States;
Summary/Abstract: The issue of climate change has started to be implemented in official strategic documents of the United States (US) in the first decade of the 21st century. This paper describes briefly the hierarchy of the US national security documents and climate change-related definitions. In the main part it makes an analysis of how climate change-related issues were introduced into the US national security strategic documents by the three 21st century American presidents. The paper comes to a conclusion, that climate change is treated as a national security threat and therefore reflected in a number of the US strategic documents.
Journal: Politeja - Pismo Wydziału Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
- Issue Year: 16/2019
- Issue No: 60
- Page Range: 289-302
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish