Climate & Environment

How Has China Been Safeguarding Its Oil Imports from the Middle East and Africa?

Nikola Zadzorova • Oct 4 2015 • Essays

Although oil is significant for Chinese economic development, the country’s ‘peaceful rise’ advocated as Chinese strategy of development should be called into question.

Kenya’s Paradoxical ‘Resource Curse’

Lewis Stott • Sep 7 2015 • Essays

Kenya must improve transparency, address corruption, and strengthen its institutional infrastructure if it is to avoid joining the long list of states ‘cursed’ by oil.

Are India and China on a Collision Course of Maritime Strategies?

Andreas Fabian • Sep 6 2015 • Essays

The Chinese and Indian maritime strategies and their aspirations have disposed two powers into a collision course in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

The Global Commons: The Arctic and the Danger of a Sequel in Outer Space

George Sariak • Sep 1 2015 • Essays

Managing the global commons is a monumental task: the Arctic and outer space pose worsening problems, which can only be solved through global governance.

Climate Change and Australian National Security

Max Munday • Aug 23 2015 • Essays

There are more effective methods of addressing climate change and national security than those that solely focus on the symptoms, rather than causes, of climate change.

The EU’s Responsibility to Protect Environmentally Displaced People

Ansgar Fellendorf and David Immer • Aug 22 2015 • Essays

The number of environmentally displaced people is expected to increase, and the EU has a moral responsibility to grant protection status to climate refugees.

The Impact of the Geopolitics of Energy: China and Angola

Liam Fitzgerald • Aug 3 2015 • Essays

China and Angola illustrate that the geopolitics of energy adversely affect the prospects for development and democracy in energy-exporting states.

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