War, Climate Crisis and the Economy: Transition Security Project Launch
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As the climate crisis intensifies, the US and UK are opening the fiscal floodgates for their militaries. In the US, the first ever trillion dollar military budget funds a global police force while endless billions in military aid are handed to Israel for its genocidal assault on Gaza. At the same time, European states are expanding their militaries to meet an arbitrary spending target set by Washington.
The Transition Security Project will investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes, their political economy and the threats they pose to the climate transition.
Jointly founded by Common Wealth and the Climate and Community Institute, Transition Security Project will produce research to support organising from the ballot box to the shop floor. We will develop alternative approaches to security and collaborate with trade unions on just transition plans for the military industry.
Join us on 16 October as we launch our forthcoming work on the war economy, the climate impacts of war and the geopolitics of the climate transition with some of our leading collaborators:
Chair
Laleh Khalili is Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, where she researches empire, extractivism and maritime trade. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade, Extractive Capitalism and Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine. Laleh is a fellow of Transition Security Project.
Speakers
Stephen Semler is the co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute, a think tank that works to align US foreign policy with working-class interests. He is an expert at Forum on the Arms Trade and writes for the Quincy Institute, Security in Context and his newsletter, Polygraph. Stephen is a fellow of Transition Security Project and the author of a forthcoming essay on the class politics of the military industrial complex.
Thea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, where she works on resource extraction, climate crisis and the global energy transition. She is the author of Extraction and Resource Radicals. Thea is Strategic Co-Director of Climate and Community Institute, which cohosts Transition Security Project.
Ilias Alami is Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, where he writes about state capitalism, geopolitics, and the green transition. He is the author of The Spectre of State Capitalism and Money, Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets. Ilias is a fellow of Transition Security Project and the author of a forthcoming essay on AI, imperialism and resource conflicts.
Khem Rogaly, Patrick Bigger and Lorah Steichen from Transition Security Project will offer brief responses to each speaker before a Q&A session.
