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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · 1d

10 years into CPEC, promises of transformation remain unfulfilled—especially for Pakistan’s marginalized regions, writes Aamir Yaqoob in a new #NSB post. Development without inclusion doesn't lead to sustainable outcomes.

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China’s Belt and Road in Pakistan: What CPEC Leaves Behind

Launched in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has drawn wide global attention, with scholars and policymakers examining its geopolitical and economic implications. Much less explored, [...]

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 9d

For @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social I wrote how a convergence of environmental crime and organized crime speeds damage to the planet. And how journalists can help create a clearer picture of what's going on.
Thx Lauren Hirzer Risi and @stimsoncenter.bsky.social
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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · 22d

Cyclones fade from memory, but their impact fuels daily tension in Zimbabwe. Research reveals how climate disasters reshape land, water, and social stability—turning scarcity into conflict.

Read the latest from Gracsious Maviza & Ibukun Taiwo of @cgiar.org
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Mud, Memories, and Meaning: Investigating Climate Security in Southwestern Zimbabwe

While the devastating cyclones Dineo (2017) and Idai (2019) may feel like distant memories on the global stage, their impact remains etched into daily life in Zimbabwe’s Tsholotsho and [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Sep 3

South Sudan faces a climate 'triple threat': floods affecting 1.4M people, oil revenue dependency at 90% of income, and rising political tensions. Click below to read the new article in #NSB examining how climate disasters are fueling regional insecurity.

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Economic and Political Fragility and Insecurity: A Climate Triple Threat in South Sudan

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Sep 2

Norway now supplies 47% of EU pipeline gas, making it a critical lifeline—and a top target. 🎯

New analysis from Griffen Ballenger and Patrick Kornegay Jr. #NSB details the dual threats from domestic politics and Russian hybrid warfare. 

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An EU Lifeline Puts Norway in Russia’s Bullseye

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Kingdom of Norway has played an ever-increasing role in reducing the European Union’s energy dependence on Russia. It [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 19

AI's confident lies about climate research reveal a dangerous gap—not just in tech, but in our understanding of how to use it. New piece by @floriankrampe.bsky.social of @sipri.org explores the human side of the AI crisis: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/ais-...

AI’s Hallucinations Are a Warning—About Ourselves

Tobias Ide’s recent article on his experiments with Generative AI should send a chill down the spine of any researcher, including those who work on climate and environmental security. When Ide [...]

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Florian Krampe @floriankrampe.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're asking #LLMs, a novelist, to perform a financial audit and are shocked at the fiction it produces.

The ghost in the machine is our own flawed approach.

My take on #GenAI in climate security research @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social.

📰⏩ www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/ais-... #ClimateSecurity

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 18

India threatens to halt Indus waters, but can it?

Analysis by @gwsc.bsky.social reveals geography & treaty limits make it nearly impossible. The 1960 pact still holds, for now.

Read more from @pennybeames.bsky.social, Erin Menzies Pluer, and Zach Goodwin: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/deep...

Deep Currents: Assessing Threats to the Indus Waters Treaty

The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 has kept two nuclear-armed rivals – India and Pakistan – in a stable river sharing arrangement for more than six decades. Yet that significant achievement now [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨 With plastic production up 250x since 1950s and only 8% recycled, 170+ nations meet this week to decide: cap production at source or rely on failed downstream fixes? Dr. Philip Landrigan breaks down why upstream prevention works:

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Will the Global Plastics Treaty Safeguard Health?

Global plastic production is increasing almost exponentially. Not only has it grown 250-fold since the 1950s, but it is on track to double by 2040, and nearly triple by 2060. The waste [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 12

Your $5 shirt outlives its style by decades - in toxic PFAS, heavy metals, and dyes poisoning:
💀 Workers' health
🌊 Vital waterways
🌱 Local food chains
In his new article for #NSB, Mursalin Khandaker discusses drivers of and solutions for this crisis:
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Toxic Threads: Southeast Asia’s Textile Pollution Poses a Growing Security Threat

In today’s world of fast fashion, a $4 crop top travel across continents faster than a letter, and new trends die before a customer hits the “checkout” prompt. Yet the global obsession with cheap [......

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 AI’s climate security hallucinations: 90% use GenAI, but Tobias Ide’s new analysis on #NewSecuirtyBeat shows Copilot & ChatGPT invent fake articles, misattribute research & hide errors.

🔗Read about the high stakes for AI use in policy-making:
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Hallucinating Climate Security: A Cautionary Tale about Generative AI

Recent studies indicate that over 90% of all students – and an increasing number of policy makers – are using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to process large amounts of data and [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 6

The U.S. skipped key UN climate talks for the 1st time in 30 yrs—just as China ramps up global climate diplomacy.

🌍⚖️ Soft power is shifting. Cede climate, cede influence.

🔗Scott Moore breaks it down for #NewSecurityBeat: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/the-...

The Cost of Ceding the Field to China on Climate Change

Summer is often a time for grim climate milestones, as ever-more intense heatwaves scorch large swathes of the planet. But this year, the bad news arrived earlier than usual when the United [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨The Kachin Independence Army seized Myanmar's critical mineral mines, generating $200M+ annually while negotiating directly with Beijing. Now Trump's exploring direct engagement.

Analysis by Amara Thiha on how non-state actors are rewriting geopolitics.

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Northern Myanmar’s Rare Earths Are Shaping Local Power and Global Competition

This article is adapted from “Rare Earths and Realpolitik: Kachin Control, Chinese Calculus, and the Future of Mediation in Myanmar,” written by Amara Thiha for the Stimson Center. As global [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Aug 1

If food waste was a country, it would be the 3rd largest polluter.

🇯🇵 Japan’s EcoFeed turns scraps into 12% of animal feed
🇺🇸 US throws away 90% of usable food waste

In a article for #NewSecurityBeat, Karen Mancl maps turning known solutions into action:

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Tapping an Innovative Climate Solution: Upscaling Food Waste to Animal Feed in Japan and China

The numbers are staggering. A third of the food produced in the world is lost or wasted—from farms and food processing factories to grocery stores, restaurants, and homes. This growing mountain [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 30

In Myanmar’s Kachin State, rebels aren’t just fighting—they’re governing forests. New research shows nearly half of armed groups since 1989 engage in climate action, from Taliban water projects to ex-FARC reforestation.

🔗 Read more on #NewSecurityBeat: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/07/rebe...

Rebel Governance in an Age of Climate Change

In Myanmar’s resource-rich Kachin State, deforestation linked to illegal logging and mining has surged over the past decade. While the national government struggles to assert control, the Kachin [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Somalia’s climate plan is also a peace blueprint," write Ann-Sophie Böhle & Kheira Tarif for #NewSecurityBeat. Facing conflict & drought, it ties adaptation to stability through inclusive solutions and trust-building. A model for fragile states.

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Somalia’s New Climate Roadmap as a Blueprint for Peace

Somalia’s new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)—the country’s roadmap for climate mitigation and adaptation—does more than outline the country’s climate ambitions. It recognizes the [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 24

Pakistan’s solar boom ☀️ could power a green future but CPEC’s coal-heavy legacy casts a shadow. Can China pivot to renewables, or will policy & grid woes stall progress?

Read the new analysis from Hong Zhang on #NewSecurityBeat:

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Taking the Slow Lane to Green Transition in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Pakistan’s summer sun is relentless, but its golden rays may hold a promising clean energy solution. During my visit to that country last summer, an energy sector expert I met expressed [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 18

China’s Mekong dams weren’t masterplanned—they evolved through backlash, crises & competition. New study highlighted on #NewSecurityBeat reveals how Beijing’s “learn-as-you-go” hydropower strategy really works.

🔗: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/07/damm...

#China #Geopolitics #Hydropower #Mekong

Damming the River by Feeling the Stones: China’s Mekong Hydropower Strategy

For decades, China has been the dominant force in hydropower development across the Mekong subregion, financing, and constructing massive dam projects that have transformed Southeast Asia’s [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 15

🌍 Peaceful ≠ sustainable. A new analysis reveals a paradox: Stable nations (US/Switzerland) often have the worst eco-footprints, while conflict zones (DRC) stay within limits. The surprising link between peace and planetary health: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/07/is-p...

Is Peace Enough? Why Sustainability Requires More Than Stability

Around the world, conflict and environmental risks are on the rise – and they’re often connected in complex ways. In the past five years alone, the number of global conflicts has doubled. At the [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 10

3 Big Takeaways from UN Ocean Conference:

1️⃣ High Seas Treaty now at 50 ratifications—just 11 away!
2️⃣ 1.6M lbs of plastic enters Med daily—#PlasticsTreaty talks continue in August
3️⃣ Ocean funding gap: Only $1.2B/yr of needed $15.8B/yr

🔗 Full analysis: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/07/thre...

Three Takeaways From the Third UN Ocean Conference

“There cannot be a healthy planet without a healthy ocean. It’s urgent business for us all,” said U.N. special envoy for the ocean, Peter Thomson, at last month’s UN Ocean Conference (UNOC). [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 9

This #WorldPopulationDay, our demographic concerns need a major course correction, writes Kathleen Mogelgaard on #NewSecurityBeat.

“Alarmism over population decline distracts from urgent work.”

🔗 Read more about refocusing the discussion: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/07/the-...

The Dangerous Distraction of Population Decline Alarmism

As headlines warn of falling birth rates and a “world gone gray,” a more urgent and overlooked story is unfolding: in too many places, women and girls are still being failed – with profound [...]

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Jul 8

Big news! New Security Beat has a new home at the Stimson Center. Since ‘07, we’ve amplified 1K+ experts on climate-conflict, health-security & resource diplomacy.

To our incredible community of readers and contributors: Thank you. Risks grow—we scale. 🌍🔗

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New Security Beat Finds a New Home

In the wake of last week’s devastating floods in Central Texas, and with the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on the horizon, new data underscores a sobering trend: extreme weather events [...]

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The Wilson Center @wilsoncenter.org · Apr 7

Dear Members and Friends of the Wilson Center,

As you probably know, the Wilson Center is complying with a March 14th Executive Order to reduce to its minimum statutory functions.

As a result, we are no longer continuing with planned Wilson Center programming and activities.

The Wilson Center will maintain a few fellowships to continue our statutory mandate to produce scholarship-driven analysis to inform and support public policy.

Thank you for your support.

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Apr 7

Friends and colleagues,

As you may know, the Wilson Center is being reduced to its statutory minimum function. As a result, the Environmental Change and Security Program will cease its programming.

Thank you for your many years of support.

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New Security Beat @newsecuritybeat.bsky.social · Mar 27

🗓️ Join ECSP, @latamprog.bsky.social, and @mexicoinstitute.bsky.social on April 3 to discuss the topography of wildlife trafficking in Latin America, including trafficking routes and broader implications for ecological stability and human security.

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Turning the Tide: Combating Latin America's Wildlife Trafficking Crisis

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