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

Military Minerals: How US Military Demand Is Intensifying Extraction on Indigenous Lands

As Pentagon demand for minerals grows, Canada’s mining expansion is accelerating extraction on Indigenous territories.

Nessie Nankivell

Published May 18, 2026

Labor of the US Military-Industrial Complex

Jobs in the military industry have declined even as the Pentagon budget soars, exposing a broken industrial model.

Published April 23, 2026

Sunrise After the Blockade

Cheap solar could help Cuba break free of US energy dominance — and the world should help pay for it

Published April 14, 2026

Trillion Dollar Bills: The Costs of Transatlantic Dependence for Europe

From imposing fossil energy dominance to NATO spending targets, the US is extracting more from Europe and putting the climate transition at risk.

Published March 5, 2026

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

Project Updates

theguardian.com ↗

Cuba could break US “energy dominance” through renewables investment

Kevin Cashman’s briefing on how renewables could help Cuba break free of the US fuel blockade was covered by the Guardian.

The view from Osnabrück

TSP fellow Rebekah Diski and Co-Director Khem Rogaly wrote for the London Review of Books blog about European rearmament.

The climate and ecological costs of war

Patrick Bigger was interviewed on NPR’s 1A about the environmental devastation produced by war.

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.