Beginning at least with Brown in 1977, scholars have argued that environmental concerns be incorporated into the security calculations of nation-states.
In recent years, the "environmental security" thesis has been used to justify
rhetorical and institutional changes within the U.S. national security policy
subsystem. The first part of this article develops a set of criteria to distinguish
between narrow and broad interpretations of environmental security. The
second part presents several examples of changes to U.S. national security
policies and programs, analyzes these changes in terms of the criteria developed
in Part 1, and concludes that many are indicative of a fairly narrow interpretation of environmental security. Finally, this essay relates the findings of this
investigation to international relations in general and to the international
environmental problematic in particular.
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