Climate Change and Shipping: National Responsibility for a Transnational Problem?
…Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The new international agreement, which is to be negotiated in Copenhagen at the end of this year, will succeed the Kyoto Protocol on climate…
Environmental Security October News Update
…from September 2012. The Arctic is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The low sea ice heightens the risk climate change poses to Indigenous communities across the Arctic….
Transforming Civil-Military Relations: Myanmar in Comparative Perspective
…loss of resources, workforce, or positions. For these reasons, agents of change usually come from the outside, 18Eliot Cohen, “Change and Transformation in Military Affairs,” Journal of Strategic Studies 27, no. 3 (2004):…
India & Kashmir Trip Report
…foreseeable circumstances, normalcy will be defined by fear and violence. The situation in Kashmir will not improve with an extension of current policies or by treading water. But neither Pakistan…
Alexander Decina and Jesse Marks’ Op-ed in Defense One on Potential US – Iran Confrontation in Syria
The United States is treading a narrow line in southeastern Syria, attempting to counter Iranian expansion without exacerbating the conflict or further embroiling American troops. A recent push by Iranian-backed groups…
The Right Way to Confront Iran in Syria
The United States is treading a narrow line in southeastern Syria, attempting to counter Iranian expansion without exacerbating the conflict or further embroiling American troops. A recent push by Iranian-backed groups…
A Firewalled Nuke Fund Is Bad Budgeting and Bad Planning
…appears to have run out of gas on what could—and should—have been a signature presidential initiative. Since 2010, President Barack Obama’s administration has been treading water in advancing the president’s…
Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Food Security in the Indian Ocean
…change and at a rate unprecedented in the geological record. By the same token, as climate change warms global average temperatures, the oceans will also absorb more heat from the atmosphere….