Transition Security Project

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Working Class Security

Expanding the US warfare state has made the working class less secure. Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is a better electoral strategy for progressives.

Stephen Semler

Published December 16, 2025

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Confronting the Power of the Global Military Industry

The military and fossil fuel industries form a powerful nexus. What kind of coalition is needed to counter their political power?

Heidi Peltier

Published December 11, 2025

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Bread and Butter Is Not Enough

Trade unions are grappling with an era of rearmament and climate breakdown. Amid these crises, a renewed labour internationalism is needed.

Rebekah Diski

Published December 9, 2025

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Polycrisis: A Breviary

Today’s world is beset by several overlapping crises. Movements on the frontline are mapping out strategies for survival.

Raj Patel

Published December 2, 2025

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Venture Capital Statecraft: The UK’s New Growth Model

The UK government has tied its growth model and security strategy to the development of a US-dominated defence tech sector.

Elke Schwarz

Published November 25, 2025

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Imperial State Capitalism

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

Ilias Alami

Published November 18, 2025

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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.

Mona Ali

Published November 10, 2025

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Cold War on a Warming World

The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.

Tobita Chow

Published November 6, 2025

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The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order

The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.

Adam Hanieh

Published October 28, 2025

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Two Transitions

A series of essays on geopolitics, the climate crisis and collective safety in a multipolar world.

Khem Rogaly, Patrick Bigger, Lorah Steichen

Published October 28, 2025

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