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Bryan L. McDonald, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Center for Unconventional Security Affairs
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
 
Office: 307 MPAA
Phone: 949.824.8804
E-mail: bmcdonal@uci.edu
 
  Biography

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 changing shape of world politics since the end of the Cold War with a focus on human, environmental, and international security.

Dr. McDonald’s dissertation examined the threats and vulnerabilities of the emerging network of global food systems to characterize present challenges to food security. By analyzing the issues of nutrition, food safety, and global environmental change, his research considers how processes of globalization are reshaping food systems in ways that have significant impacts for human and national security.

He is co-editor of Global Environmental Change and Human Security (forthcoming 2009) and Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press, 2004). His work has been published in Journal of the American Planning Association, 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.
 
Selected Publications

Books

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew, eds.), Global Environmental Change and Human Security (Forthcoming 2009).

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew and Ken Rutherford) (2004). Landmines and Human Security:  International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Articles

Bryan McDonald (with Richard A. Matthew and George Shambaugh) (2008). "Post-9/11 America: Conventional Wisdom Versus Popular Pragmatism." Democracy & Society, Vol. 5 No. 2 (Spring 2008).

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew) (2006). “Cities Under Siege: Urban Planning and the Threat of Infectious Disease.” Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 72 No. 1 (Winter 2006): 109-117. 

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew) (2004). “Networks of Threat and Vulnerability: Lessons from Environmental Security Research.” Environmental Change and Security Project Report 10.  

McDonald, B. (with Helen Ingram and Anne Schneider) (2004). “The Political Invasion of Science: How Policy Constructs Meanings and Boundaries.” Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 2: 5-28. 

McDonald B. (with Richard A. Matthew, Mike Brklacich, and Bishnu Upreti) (2004). “Advancing Conflict, Co-operation and Environmental Change: Human Security Research.” IHDP Update 03/2004. 

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew and Michael Brklacich) (2004). "Analyzing Environment, Conflict and Cooperation," Understanding Environment, Conflict and Cooperation (United Nations Environment Program and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2004).

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew and Ted Gaulin) (2003). “The Elusive Quest: Linking Environmental Change and Conflict.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 36 No. 4 (September).

 McDonald, B. (with Helen Ingram) (2002). “The Precautionary Principle, Science Wars, and the Earth Summit.” Politics and the Life Sciences 21 No. 2  (September).

Book Chapters

McDonald, B., “Global Health and Human Security: Addressing Impacts from Globalization and Environmental Change,” in Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald, eds., Global Environmental Change and Human Security (forthcoming 2009).

McDonald, B., “Ensuring Food Security: Meeting Challenges from Malnutrition, Biological Threats and Environmental Change,” in Rita Floyd and Richard Matthew, eds., Environmental Security: Frameworks for Analysis (forthcoming 2008).

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew and Heather Goldsworthy). “Rethinking Environment Ethics,” in Antonio Franceschet, ed. The Ethics of Global Governance (forthcoming 2008).

McDonald, B. (with Richard A. Matthew), “Environmental Security: Academic and Policy Debates in North America,” in Hans Gunter Brauch, ed. Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (Peace Research and European Security Studies Press, forthcoming 2008).

McDonald, B. (2004). “The Global Landmine Crisis in the 1990s.” In Richard Matthew, Bryan McDonald and Ken Rutherford, eds. Landmines and Human Security:  International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy. State University of New York Press.