Peter Schwartzstein

Oct 17, 2024 | councilonstrategicrisks.org | Peter Schwartzstein

The greater the impact of climate change, the greater our awareness of the security challenges it’s leaving in its wake. In recent years, there has been a relative deluge of research in this space. However, while most of that work has been timely and essential and has included significant related studies, such as those on the relationship between heat and interpersonal violence, the full spectrum of climate-related security risks has not yet been adequately explored.

Sep 19, 2024 | semafor.com | Peter Schwartzstein

We think Western democracies are immune from climate violence. They’re not. A lot of the risk in richer countries depends on climate crises elsewhere. But from within the West as well, we can see the makings of significant climate-related chaos. Europe and the United States already experience more crime during periods of the kind of extreme weather that climate change makes much more likely. Plenty of our own economic sectors could take major, possibly existential hits—to uncertain societal effect.

Sep 10, 2024 | waterstones.com | Peter Schwartzstein

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Aug 26, 2024 | newsecuritybeat.org | Peter Schwartzstein

For a group of self-described environmentalists, the roughly two dozen Azerbaijanis who suddenly assembled along the highway near the Armenian border in late 2022 looked like a pretty atypical lot. None of them appeared to have a background in any kind of green movement. Nor did any of them, clad in largely matching cold weather gear, attempt to explain how they could protest mining operations (their declared raison d’être) without encountering problems in a police state.

Jun 10, 2024 | newsecuritybeat.org | Peter Schwartzstein

When Luxembourg’s Green Party was offered the defense portfolio in coalition talks after performing strongly in the country’s 2019 elections, its senior members faced a dilemma. Never before had a party of its political stripe held that brief anywhere in the world. Some of the Green rank and file, drawn from pacifist backgrounds, seemed uncertain as to what to make of it all.