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  • The Climate Crisis and Southeast Asian Geopolitics

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 13, 2021  //  By Abraham Denmark
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    This article originally appeared on Asia Dispatches. 

    Southeast Asia is at the center of the two major geopolitical challenges of the 21st century: climate change and the rise of China. As decision-makers across the region grow increasingly concerned about climate change and environmental degradation, as well as the implications of intensifying competition between China and the United States, Washington has an opportunity to strengthen its engagement with Southeast Asia and advance its broader geopolitical objectives.

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  • Fisheries Management: A Possible Venue for Navigating Fisheries Conflicts in the Indian Ocean

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 10, 2020  //  By Isigi Kadagi, Zachary Lien & Cullen Hendrix
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    A significant increase in fisheries-related conflicts in the Indian Ocean since 2000 is heightening regional tensions. These conflicts have ranged from purely verbal and diplomatic disputes to armed attacks on fishing vessels by coast guards and navies. These disputes are most often low-intensity, but constitute true “wild card” scenarios in which competing powers’ navies reach the brink of engagement due to the actions of third parties that they neither command nor control.

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  • How Family Planning Can Help Save Cheetahs

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 20, 2018  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    This article by Sophie Edwards originally appeared on Devex.

    Conservationists and development practitioners may not have always seen eye to eye, but a new partnership between a cheetah conservation charity and a network of reproductive health NGOs is making the case for why these groups need to work more closely together.

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  • First Responders of Last Resort: South Asian Militaries Should Strengthen Climate Security Preparedness and Cooperation

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 9, 2018  //  By Tariq Waseem Ghazi & Rachel Fleishman
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    This post originally appeared on the Center for Climate and Security’s website.

    Last month, a major multinational military exercise launched in South and Southeast Asia. The Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific and aims to enhance regional coordination in areas such as medical readiness and preparedness for manmade and natural disasters. At its center is the hospital ship USNS Mercy, with an international team of civilian and military specialists seeking to build response capacity in one of the most disaster-prone regions of the world.

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  • Water-Energy Nexus in the Himalayas

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    August 8, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider & Chelsea Spangler
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    This article is a summary of the chapter by Keith Schneider, senior editor and chief correspondent for Circle of Blue, in the new book, Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy. The book was produced by the World Wildlife Fund-US and edited by David Reed. The summary was prepared by Chelsea Spangler. 

    The region at the base of the Himalayas faces difficult tradeoffs when allocating freshwater resources for energy production versus agricultural, industrial, and domestic uses. This is one of the most ecologically unstable areas on Earth, and weather patterns are becoming increasingly irregular. On one end of the spectrum, water shortages frequently disrupt energy production, which depends largely on water-intensive coal and hydropower plants. The opposite extreme is also a factor: Dozens of hydropower plants in the Himalayas have been damaged or destroyed by severe floods caused by unusually heavy rainfall in recent years. Construction of new power plants faces increasing resistance from local communities, resulting in social disruptions and instability. In order to ensure both energy security and water security for their countries, governments must look beyond hydropower and coal.

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  • Water Security and U.S. Foreign Policy in India, Pakistan, and the Philippines

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 16, 2017  //  By Namita Rao
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    In 2012, the U.S. National Intelligence Council judged that within the next 10 years, water problems would be a major contributor to instability in “many” countries that are of interest to the United States. South and Southeast Asia, with its many transboundary river basins, large populations, and geopolitical flashpoints, is one among a number of hotspots where such instability could occur.

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  • Environmental Sustainability, Does It Make Dollars and Sense?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 14, 2017  //  By Sara Merken
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    While governments will play the central role in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, they can’t do it without the private sector, said experts at the Wilson Center on April 12.

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  • Tamil Nadu Leads India’s Historic Turn to the Sun and Wind

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    Choke Point  //  June 7, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The ninth and final story in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    MADURAI, India – Before he agreed to serve as minister of state and take command of his country’s mammoth energy production and distribution sector, Piyush Goyal developed one of India’s most spirited political careers. “A man of ideas and competence,” according to First Post, a prominent news organization, Goyal is an accountant and lawyer who rose to the peak of Indian economic and political culture as an investment banker, member of parliament, and treasurer of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

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