Dr. Joshua Busby is an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Busby has published widely on climate change and national security, transnational advocacy movements, and U.S. foreign policy for journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies and Perspectives on Politics. He also served as an outside reviewer of the National Intelligence Council's assessment of climate change and security, and has written reports on climate change and national security for the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Center for a New American Security, the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and the UN's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. Prior to coming to UT, Dr. Busby was a Research Fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He received his PhD in Government from Georgetown University.

Selected Publications:

"Ground Truthing" Vulnerability in Africa, CCAPS Research Brief No. 4, May 2011

Locating Climate Insecurity: Where Are the Most Vulnerable Places in Africa? CCAPS Policy Brief No. 3, June 2011

Mapping Climate Change and Security in North Africa, The German Marshall Fund, 2010

Moral Movements and Foreign Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2010

After Copenhagen: Climate Governance and the Road Ahead, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2010

Locating Climate Insecurity: Where are the Most Vulnerable Places in Africa? (with Todd G. Smith, Kaiba L. White, and Shawn M. Strange), Robert S. Strauss Center Program on Climate Change and African Political Stability Working Paper Series, 2010

Feeding Insecurity? Poverty, Weak States, and Climate Change, in Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security, eds. Susan E. Rice, Corinne Graff, and Carlos Pascual, Brookings Institution Press, 2010

Who Cares About the Weather?: Climate Change and U.S. National Security, Security Studies, 2008

Overcoming Political Barriers to Reform in Energy Policy, Center for a New American Security, 2008

The Hardest Problem in the World: Leadership in the Climate Regime, in Cooperating without America: Theories and Case Studies of Non-hegemonic Regimes, eds. Stefan Brem and Kendall Stiles, Routledge, 2008

Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action, Council on Foreign Relations, 2007

Selected Commentary:

Commentary: A Hint of Climate Calamity, Austin American Statesman, 2010

Covering Climate Change As a National Security Issue, Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, 2008

Insecure About Climate Change, Washington Post, 2008

Climate Change and National Security: A Discussion with Joshua Busby, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2008

Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action, Council on Foreign Relations, 2007

Engage India, China in Forming Climate Policy, Kalinga Times, 2007

Climate Change Blues: Why the U.S. and Europe Just Can't Get Along, Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, 2002

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