Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Bryan McDonald, Assistant Director for the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs

Bryan McDonald is the Assistant Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. He received a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine, a Master's Degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor's Degree (in Honors, Summa Cum Laude) in English from Virginia Tech. His research explores the impacts of processes of global change on politics and security with a focus on human, environmental, and international security. Current research projects include: threats and vulnerabilities of the emerging network of global food systems; the environmental dimensions of peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction, and social and political impacts of the changing global security landscape. He is co-editor of Global Environmental Change and Human Security (MIT Press, forthcoming 2009) and Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press, 2004, paperback 2006). His work has been published in Democracy & Society, The Journal of the American Planning Association, The Canadian Journal of Political Science, Global Environmental Politics, Organization & Environment, Natural Resources Journal, Environment, Politics and the Life Sciences, International Environmental Agreements, and The Environmental Change and Security Project Report. McDonald has presented papers at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the American Planning Association, and the American Collegiate Schools of Planning.