Is China trying to reshape the nature of international order through the Belt and Road Initiative?
The fossil fuel-based energy system significantly contributes to environmental and climate problems. In many countries, this issue is emerging as the most important factor affecting energy policy. Ambitious, climate-driven energy policies will certainly affect the geopolitics of energy.
Mistra Geopolitics Research School organized a two-day "walkshop" where they combined in-depth discussions of research projects in progress and explored walking as a methodological practice.
Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic debate, and media, whether it is to achieve decarbonization, resilience, national development plans, or sustainability objectives.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) hosted the 2019 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development with the theme: ‘From crisis response to peacebuilding: Achieving synergies’, from 14th to 16th May. China’s rising
The theme at the Havs- och vattenforum 2019 was “adaptation to climate change.” The forum, held yearly, aims to increase knowledge about HaV’s business area, exchange ideas about current issues and find
How can we use the latest scenario methodology to increase our knowledge about the ongoing transformation of the energy system? What research from the Mistra Geopolitics program is of most relevans and interest for you?
The second annual conference in the Mistra Geopolitics program held on 30 – 31st January 2019, has come to an end. Eva Krutmeijer reflects on the conference from a communications perspective.
December 3rd marks the 50-year anniversary of when climate change was first discussed in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The Swedish UN Ambassador, Sverker Åström, warned in his speech
On 16 and 17 of November the international conference The Future of Transatlantic Relations: Challenges in Trade, Security and Environmental Policy – FOTAR2018 was held in Hamburg, bringing together politicians, academics,
Three researchers from Peru, Brazil and Nigeria have joined the Mistra Geopolitics Research School. These next-generation scholars with diverse research expertise are spending four months with Swedish partner institutions SIPRI
We need substantial global governance to govern geopolitical and collective action problems such as environmental change. Consider climate change, disease epidemics, military security, and trade flows.
On 1st October, Mistra Geopolitics research school visited the Norrköping Decision Arena at Linköping University for a seminar on visualisation. The Norrköping Decision Arena draws on recent research and development in interactive
Geopolitics of Phosphorus The importance of trade, teleconnections and multi-level governance was one of the thematic panel sessions at the Sustainable Phosphorus Summit, a biannual event bringing together stakeholders
Mistra Geopolitics author: Kevin Adams Enhancing collaboration, seizing opportunities The 20th board meeting of the Green Climate Fund was arguably the biggest calamity in climate policy since the collapse of the
This research develops a global index of exposure to transnational climate impacts. Photo credit: Getty/farakos Indicators used in climate change adaptation planning are largely based on estimates of national or local
Essay by: Malin Mobjörk In place in Trump’s America, from the first parquet in Washington, DC, Malin Mobjörk shares her thoughts on the current climate security debate. Malin Mobjörk is one
Recording of the webinar Webinar with Magnus Benzie, Mistra Geopolitics researcher and Research fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute. Adaptation is traditionally implemented at national and subnational levels. However, climate risks
Researcher: Magnus Benzie Living in an era of growing interconnectedness, it is time to admit: climate adaptation isn’t only a matter of national policy. Climate change does not respect national
Mistra Geopolitics researcher, André Månberger A new publication co-authored by Mistra Geopolitics researcher, André Månberger has been published in the Energy policy journal and is now available online. The study analysed
Are you also interested in climate change and security from a broad perspective? The Brussels Dialogue on Climate Diplomacy continously compiles those issues in reports, workshops proceedings and events. Mistra
© Mixed Alternative/Flickr Although Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have agreed to limit warming to “well below” 2°C, the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that
Photo from the piece “The Nuts and Bolts of a Climate-Conflict Link in East Africa”. There have been ongoing debates among scholars regarding the potential relationship between climate change and violent
Björn-Ola Linnér, Programme Director Dear Mistra Geopolitics Programme partners and researchers, It is with significant satisfaction, relief, pride, and most of all considerable curiosity, that I summarize the activities for
Is China trying to reshape the nature of international order through the Belt and Road Initiative?