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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 change and the environment. This can happen directly, for instance when militaries prepare for climate change or...
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 facility on the Mediterranean coast south of...
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. However, while most of that...
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. None of them appeared to have a background in any kind...
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 a party of its political stripe held that brief anywhere...