Climate Security or Climate Hypocrisy? NATO’s Military Emissions Gap The Climate of Conflict: NATO and its member states increasingly frame climate change as a “security...
Archive - June 2025
5% for Weapons? Rethinking NATO’s Cost of Militarised Spending Priorities In 2024, NATO members agreed to a bold new target: 5% of GDP for defence by 2035. That includes...
Who Gets Protected? Selective Security: While NATO emphasises protecting and “defending people,” its track record shows a pattern of selective intervention—often...
The Language of Peace… or Power? Words shape worldview. NATO’s public messaging increasingly leans on militarised language: “deterrence,” “forward posture,” “hard power...
How Far Can ‘Defence’ Reach Before It Becomes Domination? NATO was created in 1949 as a collective defence pact: an attack on one would be considered an attack on all...
NATO’s Founding Promise: Diplomacy First. Where Did It Go? Diplomacy: NATO’s founding treaty clearly states it military actions must only ever be a last resort. Article...
The Beauty of Not Knowing What Comes Next I don’t have a five-year plan. I’m not even sure what next month looks like. Embracing Uncertainty: For a long time, that...
