Articles by: "Michael Thomas"
Climate security in the Trumpian era

As anticipated, Donald Trump’s recent US national security strategy (NSS) airbrushed climate change out of existence. If only it were that easy. Although not surprising, the removal of climate change as an issue of strategic …

Defence and climate change management

In February 2015, President Barack Obama listed climate change alongside international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and infectious disease in a new national security strategy. The US National Security Strategy called climate change ‘an urgent …