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Climate Change and the French Armed Forces

With climate security gaining ground as a topic of global discussion, the French armed forces are developing their own approach to climate change at the national level. As shown by the recent failure of the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on the security implications of climate change and …

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The Pandemic Has Done Little to Check China’s Geostrategic Ambitions

Given the lack of joined up thinking by China’s geopolitical adversaries, the biggest threat to China’s growing economic and geopolitical dominance may actually be itself. For a country considered by many to have been the source of a global health pandemic resulting in over 5.3 million deaths globally, it is …

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Protecting the European Security Order

The US and Europe will need to work together to prevent Russian attempts to fundamentally redefine the European security order by force. In late 2021, European Council President Charles Michel declared 2022 the ‘year of European defence’. He was referring to a burst of planned activity from the EU: a …

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