Bridging The Divide: Transboundary Science & Policy Interaction In The Indus Basin
…and Pakistan face common challenges managing their shared natural resources. With rapidly depleting groundwater, burgeoning population growth, and diminishing surface water flows, the Indus is swiftly becoming a “closed” basin—one…
Fish Crime: What Do the Numbers Say?
…in its territorial waters, and growing Chinese expansion in South American waters will likely result in more such instances. Beyond South America, officials from 24 African nations called on China…
Mekong-US Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue Summary Report on Connectivity
…water resource infrastructure development, particularly hydropower. The economic benefits of water infrastructure are concentrated and easily quantifiable—for instance, income from energy generation or irrigated agriculture—whilst those from free-flowing rivers, particularly…
Will a Turkey-Iraq Security Agreement Diminish Iran’s Hold Over Iraq?
…a “strategic water agreement” between Iraq and Turkey, as indicated by a spokesperson for the Iraqi government. Water has been a longstanding reason for disputes between the two nations, as…
David Michel quoted in New Security Beat on Water Scarcity
Water scarcity has contributed to an “arc of instability” characterized by conflict and displacement that stretches from West Africa to the Middle East, said a panel of experts at the…
TRANSCRIPT – Naval Competition in the Indian Ocean Region
…further segments under non-traditional security is environmental sector, where ongoing and emerging threats such as viruses, we save part of maritime ecosystem from pollution, climate change-led threats and impacts are…
China Must Join the War on Illegal Fishing
…the pressures that climate change puts on already depleted fish populations. We know that when fisheries collapse, people go hungry and unemployed fishermen are often exploited by traffickers to run…
Rethinking the Threat: Why China is Unlikely to Invade Taiwan
…Pearl, “China’s Underwater Power Play: The PRC’s New Subsea Cable-Cutting Ship Spooks International Security Experts,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 4, 2025, accessed June 5, 2025, https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-underwater-power-play-prcs-new-subsea-cable-cutting-ship-spooks-international. These…