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Nov 15, 2024
On state securitization, artificial NGOs, and environmental journalism: An interview
Abstract
This is an interview with environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein. In the interview, Schwartzstein discusses how states are increasingly securitizing and weaponizing climate…
Nov 11, 2024
Record global warming risks aggravating war and violence
At COP29, negotiators will be discussing the fate of a planet already riddled with climate-related conflict
Nov 1, 2024
The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise Again of the Middle East’s Most Ambitious Environment Scheme
For an initiative that has the potential to rework the Middle East, Project Prosperity would leave a remarkably small imprint on the ground. In its initial phase, Israel would build a new desalination…
Oct 17, 2024
Climate Change & Crime: A big, bad, largely overlooked nexus
The greater the impact of climate change, the greater our awareness of the security challenges it’s leaving in its wake. In recent years, there has been a relative deluge of research in this space.…
Aug 28, 2024
Environmental NGOs as Tools of State Security Policy: A Growing Trend
For a group of self-described environmentalists, the roughly two dozen Azerbaijanis who suddenly assembled along the highway near the Armenian border in late 2022 looked like a pretty atypical lot.…
Jun 11, 2024
Climate Security and Europe’s Greens: A Match Made in Political Heaven?
When Luxembourg’s Green Party was offered the defense portfolio in coalition talks after performing strongly in the country’s 2019 elections, its senior members faced a dilemma. Never before had…
Oct 15, 2023
A Reminder from Israel and Gaza on the Importance and Limitations of Environmental Peacebuilding
I flew into Tel Aviv last Friday afternoon, primed for a week of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian environmentalists and officials. By sounding out these men and women in Jerusalem, the West Bank,…
Jan 31, 2023
Climate & Migration
Assessing and addressing migration and displacement in a time of extreme climate stress
Jan 31, 2023
Environmentalism for Sovereignty’s Sake
Egypt’s Gebel Elba National Park is, by all accounts, a spectacular place. But it better be to justify the fuss it takes to visit. First you have to apply for a permit. If that’s approved (and almost…