Cullen S. Hendrix, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is assistant professor of government at the College of William and Mary. His areas of research include the economic and security implications of climate change, food security, and civil conflict. He is coauthor of Science and the International Politics of Climate Change (2010) and Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Addressing the Challenges (forthcoming), and has consulted for the World Food Programme and the Human Security Report Project.