Pierre Charbonnier's new book on 'war ecology' is just out in French. His arguments influenced Oceans Rise Empires Fall.
On the occasion of the closure of Britain's last coal-fired power plant here's what I wrote in Oceans Rise about 'the founding father of geopolitics' Halford J. Mackinder's view of coal as foundational to Britain's prosperity.
My reply to commentaries denouncing my 'Territorial Taboo' for EPC essay on the Russia-Ukraine war is now published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I'm pleased the first published review essay of Oceans Rise Empires Fall is together with the great David Livingstone's The Empire of Climate and two other 'climate in/security' volumes. By @simondalby.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Contemporary debates about climate security should take seriously the historical antecedents in discussions of the role of climate on human civilizations. The r...
Today is the official publication day for Ocean Rise Empires Fall in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and beyond in the Anglosphere. I'll be speaking about the book at some events starting next month. Its subject matter will be with us for thousands of years.
A NATO general making a lot of sense. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/w...
President Petr Pavel, a former NATO general who has been vocal in his support for Ukraine, said Kyiv needed to accept that some territory could remain under Russian control, at least “temporarily.”
Prudence & caution is 'dithering' to the FT, another tacit hawkish bias in our geopolitical culture. www.ft.com/content/d39e...
Potentially allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles on targets in Russia is latest in a series of ‘salami tactics’
Today it was hard to go past this painting, a gift from the artist on the birth of our first daughter, in our house. Helen Zughaib, 'Birth of a Baby' (in Lebanon)
“This is an attitude from a place of pain, not from a place of peace.” news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Virginia Tech international affairs expert Gerard Toal has researched Ukrainian public opinion for a decade. His most recent findings indicate that more Ukrainians have become open to entering into ne...