Oops, actually "Eco Security" looks like it's a burglar alarm company. Don't Google that.
Well, my understanding of the tag I've just added is that all the national security-ism (NSC, CIA, NATO, MAD, NPT - the alphabet soup of the national security priesthood) of the last half century is useless unless we come to grips with the perfect storm of climate change, peak oil, and overpopulation. And now there's a nice site to illustrate that concept, thanks to the good people at the Center for Defense Information and the World Security Institute. Here's eco-security in a nifty world map, chock full of credible scenarios. (You should wait a couple of seconds for the interactive mouse-over to work).
I think they've done some interesting homework on the scenarios. Here's the one on Algeria:
ALGERIA
Islamic militants adapt to agricultural declines by providing free public services. They gain sufficient public support to reinvigorate revolutionary movement.
That's pretty close to what the Islamists actually did back in the early nineties, when they won - overwhelmingly - Algeria's only free elections since independence, before the army canceled everything. Hearts and minds, the way to success at the ballot box. And it's a classic approach, used in other places where political Islam has made headway.
There should be a way to combine the word energy with eco-security, but in many ways, it's just a subset of the ecological whole. We can dig up all the expensive-to-find and non-renewable carbon fuel we want, but it won't do us any long term good - in fact, it will only do us harm - until we find sustainable ways to live on this planet. That should be the new (inter)national security "paradigm."