Climate Change & Green Transition

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The Pacific’s Geoeconomic Exposure to the Persian Gulf Shock

April 6, 2026

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Africa’s Strategic Neutrality Under Energy Shock

March 20, 2026

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China’s Arctic Role in a Securitising Region

February 24, 2026

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Persistent Environmental Crisis of 2026

February 20, 2026

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The Hormuz Shock Is Reordering Energy Power

The disruption of the Strait of Hormuz is doing more than unsettling oil and gas markets. It is accelerating a strategic shift toward electrification, grid expansion, and control over the industrial systems that will shape the next energy order, where China holds a growing advantage over the United States.

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Climate Strain and the Reordering of Global Food Stability

Climate stress is reshaping global food systems and widening the gap between resilient states and vulnerable regions. Rising temperatures, volatile markets, and uneven...

December 7, 2025

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From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

China controls nearly all heavy rare earth processing and most of the refining that turns raw ore into magnets for jets, submarines, and...

December 7, 2025

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Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Rising temperatures are exposing not only a failure of ambition but a failure of governance. This essay argues that climate policy is a...

November 25, 2025

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From Chokepoint to Network in the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and US-China Rivalry

Rare earths have turned from obscure inputs into one of the sharpest tools in US-China competition. China still dominates processing and magnet production,...

November 25, 2025

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Rare Earths and the Hard Edge of Interdependence

China’s grip on rare earth processing has turned obscure minerals into one of the sharpest tools in its strategic contest with the United...

November 25, 2025

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How circular economy is colliding with global trade and climate politics

Circular economy is no longer a recycling sideshow. Trade in scrap metals, plastics and used components is turning into a strategic arena where...

November 25, 2025

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Europe’s circular economy agenda as international strategy

Circular economy has moved from technical jargon to a lever of power. The EU now uses rules on design, repair, waste and materials...

November 25, 2025

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Navigating a New Energy Investment Landscape

Global energy is shifting from a cheap-capital, Paris-era boom in renewables to a harder, more fragmented investment landscape where security, cost and competitiveness...

November 23, 2025

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Why Europe’s Human Capital Strategy Decides its Geopolitics

Europe’s clean-tech plans hinge less on subsidies than on whether it can train and attract the people needed to build and operate its...

November 23, 2025

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From Cloud Outage to Command Vulnerability: How Grid Hardware, Critical Minerals, and Chinese Industrial Policy Rewire U.S. Compute Power

The October 2025 AWS us-east-1 outage is used to show how U.S. and allied command, finance, and logistics now depend on a cloud...

November 23, 2025

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