Vacancy: Researcher

Transition Security Project

Transition Security Project

Transition Security Project

Transition Security Project

Transition Security Project

Investigating military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats.

Featured Research

Transition Security

What are the consequences of militarisation for a warming world? How will Transition Security Project respond to this moment?

Khem Rogaly, Patrick Bigger, Lorah Steichen

Published October 16, 2025

Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion

Military industrial conversion was a popular proposal in the twentieth century. What would it look like on the Clyde today?

Pinelopi Gardika, Leela Jadhav, Khem Rogaly

Published October 23, 2025

Imperial State Capitalism

A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition.

Published November 18, 2025

In the Name of “Rebalancing”: An Assault on Trade

The US has imposed a harsh global trade regime to reorder the world economy. Amid the chaos, new possibilities may emerge.

Published November 10, 2025

A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy

Report by Khem Rogaly

Published October 18, 2024

A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: Map

Mapping military aerospace and shipbuilding in North West England, the Scottish central belt and Northern Ireland.

Khem Rogaly, Sophie Monk

Published October 18, 2024

Project Updates

Vacancy: Researcher

We are recruiting a full time Researcher based in the UK.

War, climate crisis and the economy: Transition Security Project launch

Listen to our launch event with Laleh Khalili, Ilias Alami, Stephen Semler and Thea Riofrancos. The event was published as a podcast by Macrodose.

theguardian.com ↗

$1 trillion Pentagon budget to add vast emissions, study shows

Our Research Manager Lorah Steichen and Co-Director Patrick Bigger’s analysis covered by the Guardian.

Project Themes

Economy

We analyse the political economy of military budgets and the economic risks of increasing military spending. Alongside this, we work with trade unions to develop plans for the conversion of military industrial sites.

We analyse the political economy of military budgets and the economic risks of increasing military spending. Alongside this, we work with trade unions to develop plans for the conversion of military industrial sites.

Climate

We investigate the environmental damage produced by the US and UK war machines, from greenhouse gas emissions to ecological devastation.

We investigate the environmental damage produced by the US and UK war machines, from greenhouse gas emissions to ecological devastation.

Geopolitics

We commission new research on the global strategies of the US and UK militaries, their roles in destabilising collective security and the barriers that US empire presents to multilateral security and climate collaboration.

We commission new research on the global strategies of the US and UK militaries, their roles in destabilising collective security and the barriers that US empire presents to multilateral security and climate collaboration.