Content Types
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.
Geopolitics
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?
Geopolitics
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.
Geopolitics
Rebekah Diski
Published December 9, 2025
Briefing
Mining for War: Assessing the Pentagon’s Mineral Stockpile
How can the Pentagon’s energy transition mineral stockpiles be repurposed toward the green transition?
Lorah Steichen
Mining for War: Assessing the Pentagon’s Mineral Stockpile
How can the Pentagon’s energy transition mineral stockpiles be repurposed toward the green transition?
Economy
Published December 4, 2025
Essay
Polycrisis: A Breviary
Today’s world is beset by several overlapping crises. Movements on the frontline are mapping out strategies for survival.
Geopolitics
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.
Geopolitics
Elke Schwarz
Published November 25, 2025
Essay
Imperial State Capitalism
A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition.
Geopolitics
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.
Geopolitics
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.
Geopolitics
Tobita Chow
Published November 6, 2025
Essay
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.
Geopolitics
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.
Geopolitics
Khem Rogaly, Patrick Bigger, Lorah Steichen
Published October 28, 2025
Timeline
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?
Economy
Pinelopi Gardika, Leela Jadhav, Khem Rogaly
Published October 23, 2025
Essay
Transition Security
What are the consequences of militarisation for a warming world? How will Transition Security Project respond to this moment?
Climate, Economy, Geopolitics
Khem Rogaly, Patrick Bigger, Lorah Steichen
Published October 16, 2025
Briefing
Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good
The Pentagon fleet demands a vast amount of energy transition minerals.
Lorah Steichen, Mekedas Belayneh, Matthew Haugen, Patrick Bigger, Lucy Block
Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good
The Pentagon fleet demands a vast amount of energy transition minerals.
Climate
Published February 19, 2025
Briefing
The Climate Crisis and the US War Machine
The Pentagon is the world's largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels.
Patrick Bigger, Adrien Salazar, Zainab Koli, Lorah Steichen
The Climate Crisis and the US War Machine
The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels.
Climate
Published February 11, 2025
Map
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.
Economy
Khem Rogaly, Sophie Monk
Published October 18, 2024
A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy
Report by Khem Rogaly
A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy
Building on the Lucas Plan, a new industrial strategy can redirect productive capacity and skills from the military industry towards the development of green manufacturing.
Economy
Published October 18, 2024
Briefing
Climate Justice Demands Ceasefire and Arms Embargo on Israel
Genocide and apartheid are incompatible with climate justice.
Climate & Community Institute
Climate Justice Demands Ceasefire and Arms Embargo on Israel
Genocide and apartheid are incompatible with climate justice.
Climate, Geopolitics
Published August 17, 2024
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
Report by Patrick Bigger, Nick Pearce, Khem Rogaly, Ketaki Zodgekar
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
The US and UK militaries are two of the world’s institutions most responsible for climate crisis. Only a reparative approach can begin to account for their role in environmental breakdown.
Climate
Published November 6, 2023
Briefing
Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010
How arms industry shareholders benefit from military spending.
Khem Rogaly
Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010
How arms industry shareholders benefit from military spending.
Economy
Published September 15, 2023
The Asset Manager Arsenal: Who Owns the UK Arms Industry?
Report by Khem Rogaly
The Asset Manager Arsenal: Who Owns the UK Arms Industry?
State support underpins arms production in the UK. Who benefits from this subsidy?
Economy
Published July 9, 2023
Interactive
The Asset Manager Arsenal: An Interactive Story
Economy
Khem Rogaly, Sophie Monk
Published July 9, 2023