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Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries

2023 | International Studies Review
Anselm Vogler

Defense ministries regularly frame climate security in their national security strategies. Recently, “civil” ministries also begun mentioning climate security. However, they do not mean the…

Advancing European Union Action to Address Climate-Related Security Risks

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Anniek Barnhoorn, Manon du Bus de Warnaffe, Karen Meijer, Dominik Rehbaum, Simone Bunse, and Elise Remling

This SIPRI Research Policy Paper assesses the priorities of selected European Union (EU) member states regarding climate-related security risks, explores their strategies for pursuing these…

Mapping European Union Member States’ Responses to Climate-Related Security Risks

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Simone Bunse, Elise Remling, Anniek Barnhoorn, Manon du bus de Warnaffe, Karen Meijer, and Dominik Rehbaum

This SIPRI Research Policy Paper identifies European Union (EU) member states’ efforts to address climate-related security risks in the short to medium term and suggests…

The Hunger Plan: The Holocaust, Resource Scarcity, and Preventing Genocide in a Changing Climate

2022 | Genocide Studies and Prevention
Emily Sample

Nazi leadership sought to exploit the biological fear of starvation and scapegoat the Jewish population and other “useless eaters” for taking more than their fair…

NATO, Energy Security and Institutional Change

2020 | European Security
Alexandra-Maria Bocse

In recent years, NATO expressed increasing interest in addressing the broader range of security challenges confronting its Allies. Energy security was included in 2010 in…

Anchored in Action: Operationalizing NATO's Climate Security Plan in the Arctic Maritime Domain

2025 | Arctic Institute
Pauline Baudu and Fabio Lissi

Since 2021 and until recently, NATO has bolstered its commitment to addressing the security implications of climate change, demonstrated by the release of foundational guiding…

Ready for Take-off? Military Responses to Climate Change

2020 | Planetary Security Initiative and Clingendael Institute
Louise van Schaik, Dick Zandee, Tobias von Lossow, Brigitte Dekker, Zola van der Maas, and Ahmad Halima

The military is only just becoming aware of the scale of the social and environmental impacts that climate change will have in the coming decades.…

Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States

2023 | Springer
Judith Nora Hardt, Cameron Harrington, Franziskus von Lucke, Adrien Estève, and Nicholas P. Simpson

This book includes a systematic study of different framings of climate security & policy responses by United Nations Security Council members innovative framework & methodology…

Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk

2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D

Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…

From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-Prone Regions

2020 | Global Environmental Change
Stefan Döring

Does water shortage incentivize cooperation? Case studies suggests that water scarcity can rarely, if at all, explain violence, instead such shortages rather facilitate cooperative actions…

CSM Progress Report 2024: A Year of Rising Heat and Risk

2025 | United Nations

This report summarizes the main achievements of the Climate Security Mechanism in 2024 towards advancing peace-positive climate action, catalyzing climate-informed approaches to peace and security,…

Briefing Paper on Nuclear Weapons, the Environment, and the Climate Crisis

2023 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing humanity, and the threat of nuclear weapons is another. Nuclear weapons production, testing, and use all…

G7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on Climate, Environment, Peace and Security

2022 | Germany Federal Foreign Office

The G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the…

The War in Ukraine and Energy Politics [Audio]

2022 | NEWS, the bigger picture
Alexander Verbeek

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dominated the news and pushed the IPCC report from the front pages. It also made painfully clear how much…

Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature

2021 | Princeton University Press
Emmanuel Kreike

The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and…

The Illegal Bird Trade from the Western Balkans into the European Union: Drivers and Responses

2020 | BIOSEC
Teresa Lappe-Osthege

Current EU policy regulating the trade in birds does not sufficiently recognise the European dimension of the illegal bird trade. While the EU Birds Directive…

Climate Change, Conflict and Security Scan: Analysis of Current Thinking

2019 | Overseas Development Institute
Leigh Mayhew, Katie Peters, Hannah Measures, Christie Nicoson, and Maria Stavropoulou

In the second instalment of ODI’s climate change, conflict and security scan, the authors summarise the latest developments on Twitter, in the blogosphere, and in…

Los Recursos y el Conflicto

2016 | Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos
Federico Aznar Fernández-Montesinos

Los recursos son un factor de conflicto en la medida en que resultan bienes escasos y por tanto suscitan la pugna por su posesión y…

Foresight Results and Insights to the Black Sea Peacebuilding Network

2013 | CMI & Black Sea Peacebuilding Network
Jari Kaivo-Oja, Ville Brummer, Erno Miettinen, Mikheil Mirziashvili

This report thus aims to analyse the background factors behind violent conflicts in the Black Sea region. Furthermore, this report identify key drivers, which can…

Greening in the Red Zone

2014 | Keith G. Tidball and Marianne E. Krasny

‘Greening in the red zone’ refers to post-catastrophe, community-based stewardship of nature, and how these often spontaneous, local stewardship actions serve as a source of…

Losing the Dividends of Neutrality in the Arctic

2025 | Arctic Institute
Gabriella Gricius and Nicolas Jouan

Since the end of the Cold War, the Arctic region has drawn little attention compared to other areas of geopolitical competition, such as East Asia…

Pathways to Instability: How Decreasing Oil Prices Impact Political Stability in Petrostates - Lessons From the 1980s Oil Glut

2025 | Energy Research & Social Science
Martijn C. Vlaskamp

Existing research has shown a correlation between lower oil prices and political instability in oil-rich countries. This paper examines the conditions under which declining oil…

Russian Gas and the Fight for the Italian Right: Implications of Meloni's and Salvini's Russian Energy Policy in the 2024 EU Parliamentary Elections

2024 | CeSPI - Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale
Tyler Leonard

On 8 and 9 June 2024, the Italian public will elect its tenth delegation to the European Union (EU) Parliament. Based on public opinion polls,…