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  • United Nations Advances Strategic Foresight: Breakdown or Breakthrough Scenarios?

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 5, 2022  //  By Steven Gale
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    Last September, Secretary-General António Guterres outlined the United Nation’s Our Common Agenda in a speech to the General Assembly. His remarks focused on the future of global cooperation for the next 25 years. It was imperative, he messaged, to recognize that our accelerated interconnectedness, and the formidable challenges we all face, can only be addressed through a reinvigorated multilateralism, with the United Nations at the core of collective member efforts. We must think big, act swiftly, and work effectively, he said, to reshape how we move forward today to achieve the goals of the UN declaration commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

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  • Redefining National Security

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 28, 2022  //  By Carol Dumaine
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    This article is adapted from an article previously published in Issues in Science and Technology. 

    As Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine continues, the world’s focus is rightfully on ending this conflict as soon as possible. But the global impact of a senseless war launched by a petro-dictator also calls for deeper reflection.  

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  • ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’: U.S. conflict prevention policy in a world of climate change

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 25, 2022  //  By Cynthia Brady
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    This article is adapted from an article previously published in Climate Diplomacy. 

    The crisis in Ukraine is rightly at the center of U.S. foreign policy attention but, even in the midst of that justified focus, the latest IPCC report unflinchingly reminds us of another emergency: we are running out of time to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change, including the social, economic, environmental and security risks that can actually drive war.

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  • COP 27 in Sharm: Few Opportunities and More Challenges for MENA Environmentalists

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 17, 2022  //  By Peter Schwartzstein
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    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, will negotiate and schmooze along the shores of the Red Sea at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. After a rather mixed outcome of last year’s COP 26 in Glasgow – and even more chilling IPCC report releases since then, global environmentalists are counting on this year’s COP 27 to produce the kinds of game-changing, emissions-cutting measures that climate risks so desperately demand.  

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  • Does Foreign Climate Shaming Lead to Nationalist Backlash?

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 7, 2022  //  By Matias Spektor, Umberto Mignozzetti & Guilherme Fasolin
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    The United States and Europe are beginning to deploy naming and shaming tactics to increase compliance with global environmental norms.  

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  • Hydropolitics in the Russian – Ukrainian Conflict

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 1, 2022  //  By Mehmet Altingoz & Saleem Ali
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    It’s telling that one of the first actions that Russian forces took in their invasion of Ukraine was to blow up a dam on the North Crimean Canal (NCC), allowing water to flow back into Crimea. The current war being waged by Russia in Ukraine has its origins in fractured and contested political history, but there are also key natural resource security questions which often go overlooked. While there are established debates about the extent to which natural resources contribute to conflict, the current conflagration exemplifies a rare use of water as a means of direct leverage in a military standoff. Regardless of the outcome of the conflict, the tensions between Russia and Ukraine over the NCC illustrate the need to consider the role of natural resources—and access to them—in broader diplomatic efforts.

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  • More EU in the Arctic and More Arctic in the EU?

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    Guest Contributor  //  Navigating the Poles  //  February 7, 2022  //  By Romain Chuffart & Andreas Raspotnik
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    The Arctic is ground zero for climate change. Warming in the region is occurring at three times the rate of the global average and September Arctic sea-ice is now declining at a rate of 13 percent per decade. However, the reverse is also true. The complex changes taking place in the Arctic are having profound effects on the rest of the world, and major economies are taking note. 

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  • Gender, Climate Change, and Security: Missing Links

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 26, 2022  //  By Chantal de Jonge Oudraat & Michael E. Brown
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    Gender issues, climate change, and security problems are interconnected in complex and powerful ways. Unfortunately, some of these connections have not received enough attention from scholars, policy analysts, and policymakers. This has serious, real-world implications for the promotion of gender equality, the mitigation of climate change, and the advancement of peace and security—three priorities that everyone should care about.  

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