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Environmental Politics, ed. Daniel H. Deudney and
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001 (Washington: Environmental Protection
Agency, 1999).
24. William J. Perry, Remarks at Harvard University,
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39.  William Nitze, "Environmental Security,"
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25. Goodman, "The Environment and National
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40. Ibid.
26. Goodman, "Environmental Security in the
Next Millennium."
41. Barry Buzan, People, States and Fear: An Agenda
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for International Security Studies in the Post­Cold War
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debate over the concept of security, see David
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Baldwin, "The Concept of Security," Review of
volvement in Environmental Security," in
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29. Ibid., p. 114.
42. This is especially so since war is one of the
greatest contributors to environmental degrada-
30. Goodman, "The Environment and National
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Security."
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Intelligence Agenda," Speech to the World Affairs
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An Open Sore in the Pentagon's Improving
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34. Clinton, State of the Union Address, 1996.
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48. Quoted in Ronald J. Deibert, "From Deep Black
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to Green? Demystifying the Military Monitoring
Ambiguous Symbol," in Discord and Collaboration:
of the Environment," Environmental Change and
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Hopkins University Press, 1962), p. 150.
36. See Deudney; and Barry Buzan, "Environment
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as a Security Issue," in Geopolitical Perspectives on
mental Change and Security Report, no. 3 (Spring
Environmental Security, ed. Paul Painchaud, Cahier du
1997): 211. Interestingly, Gore had earlier rejected
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