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Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector

This deeply informed, urgently needed book by Dr. Joanna I. Lewis examines the global cooperation such a monumental effort demands and inspires, necessarily focusing on China’s outsize role in the development and dissemination of clean energy technologies.

July 17, 2023

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Water Weaponization: Its Forms, Its Use in the Russia-Ukraine War, and What to Do About It

This briefer highlights the core elements of water weaponization, and then assess its practice in the Russia-Ukraine war to date.

June 1, 2023

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Dr. Marcus King, “Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East”

Drought, lack of access, poor quality … water supplies are in jeopardy across Africa and the Middle East. These same areas are rife with conflicts involving Islamic extremist groups. Marcus King explores linkages between water stress and violent conflict by looking closely at how ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al-Shabaab in Somalia have weaponized water in the pursuit of political ends.

February 27, 2023