Floods in Italy, landslides in Pakistan; ice storms in Texas, wildfires in copyright. The climate devastation of 2023 is a reminder, as if another were needed, that time is running out to address global warming. Yet, the March 2023 report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that current emissions reduction pa

External security dimensions include continued Ukraine support, as well as scaling up domestic defence production to expand Europe’s defence industry. This includes mobilising greater European defence spending, which reached a record 279 billion euros in 2023—a 10-percent increase from 2022—but it also requires an additional 500 billion euros

umbrella and remained weak and impoverished due to decades of economic sanctions. While South Korea has been preoccupied with balancing North Korean military power, Japan has been able to prioritise issues beyond its main archipelago, such as China’s threats to maritime security in East and Southeast Asia. For Japanese defence planners, the North

But between 2000 and 2003, before the dam was constructed, there were only 94 earthquakes. Eighty large cracks appeared on the Three Gorges Dam’s concrete face, just days after the reservoir was filled for the first time in 2003. These raised concerns about the dam’s safety. In 1975, 62 dams had collapsed in Henan due to heavy downpours during

for a more hawkish posture towards the European military may induce reappraisals of Europe’s reliance on the United States for military deterrence Reaffirming NATO and strengthening nuclear security Rather than withdrawing or reducing its involvement in NATO, The US can approach the region more practically to reinvigorate the alliance’s defence