Transition Security Project

Posturing to the World: The Costs of Britain’s Global Military and Expansive Strategy

Report by Kevin Cashman, Khem Rogaly

Published October 8, 2026

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A Future Beyond Bases: Imagining Military Conversion in Hawaiʻi

The potential for military base conversion in Hawaiʻi

Pinelopi Gardika, Davis Price, David Vine

Published June 3, 2026

Essay

Forging Ahead: Green Internationalism for a Multipolar World

The second of a two-part essay, reimagining the UK’s industrial, security and trade strategy in a multipolar world

Stefan Zylinski

Published April 10, 2026

Essay

At a Crossroads: The UK and the Neoliberal World Economy

The first of a two-part essay, reimagining the UK’s industrial, security and trade strategy in a multipolar world

Stefan Zylinski

Published April 10, 2026

Essay

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

Essay

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

Essay

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

Essay

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

Essay

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

Essay

Imperial State Capitalism

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

Ilias Alami

Published November 18, 2025

Essay

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

Essay

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

Essay

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

Essay