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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…
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…
Dec 1, 2022
Media and Climate Security: Mutual Miscomprehension?
There’s a scene near the climax of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express when Hercule Poirot starts to plot out the possible murderers. There’s Colonel Arbuthnot, who had opportunity…
Mar 17, 2022
COP 27 in Sharm: Few Opportunities and More Challenges for MENA Environmentalists
In November, the world’s marquee climate conference will come to one of its fastest warming regions. Over roughly two weeks, global leaders, businesspeople, and, in theory, civil society organizations,…
Jan 12, 2021
How We Misunderstand the Magnitude of Climate Risks – and Why That Contributes to Controversy
The Syrian civil war has raged for almost a decade now, and in the climate security community it can feel as if we’ve spent at least that long arguing about its causes. For every claim about the impact…