Global Risk Insights

In 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, the latest global climate summit - COP28 - took place in the United Arab Emirates. Again, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) seemed to be omitted...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2024/01/sids-the-climate-crisis-and-cop27/

Commentators fundamentally underappreciate the vulnerability of the West’s nuclear industry to Russia, and the sector may be about to become embroiled in the Russia-West economic conflict. The ...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2023/02/opinion-nuclear-energy-security-sleep-walking-into-the-next-energy-crisis/

The effects of climate change are being increasingly felt across the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently predicted a seventh consecutive ‘above av...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/11/climate-change-hurricanes-and-us-security/

The spectacle of British politics has recently found new highs (or lows, depending on the observer). Although exciting to watch, it does nothing to placate the anxieties faced by businesses and h...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/11/opinion-churn-in-no-10-around-the-cabinet-in-49-days/

Europe’s significant though incomplete security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine suggests that the achievement of European strategic autonomy exists on an extended timeline. In the near-te...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/11/eu-nato-defense-cooperation/

The 2016 peace deal between the FARC-EP guerrilla and the Colombian state has proven domestically polarising. Recently, the release of the final report of the Truth Commission has highlighted den...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/10/enduring-denialism-a-threat-to-sustainable-peace-in-colombia/

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has brought renewed focus to America’s ability to defend against the Kremlin’s separatist narratives that seek to stoke ethnolinguistic tensions amo...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/10/the-united-states-war-against-russian-disinformation-is-the-gec-fit-for-purpose/

Moscow has refused to call its actions in Ukraine a ‘war’, instead suggesting that it is simply conducting a ‘special military operation’. Such an unyielding position is inherently steepe...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/09/the-international-law-of-war-and-russias-special-military-operation/

This article, following this author’s analysis on far-right extremist violence, examines and analyzes the recent uptick in political extremist violence in the United States. The recent thwarted...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/08/opinion-the-attempted-assassination-of-brett-kavanaugh-and-far-left-extremism/

Recent unprecedented temperatures experienced within the United Kingdom – recorded as exceeding 40 degrees celsius for the first time – exemplify the increasing likelihood and intensity of se...

https://globalriskinsights.com/2022/08/uk-conservative-leadership-climate-policy/