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Vo1. 41, No. 2, March/April 2023

[Keywords] Turkey, second Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the situation in the Caucasus,
window of opportunity, political opportunity structure, regional security
[Authors] ZENG Xianghong, Professor, Institute for Central Asian Studies, School of
Politics and International Relations, Lanzhou University; WANG Haoyu, Student,
School of Politics and International Relations, Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, 730000).

81 Climate Security and Hegemonic Maintenance: Global Promotion
of the US Climate Security Strategy
LI Xinlei

[Abstract] As early as the beginning of the 21st century, the potential threat of climate
change was first captured by the US military and intelligence agencies, and then
entered the US government’s security agenda. Due to the efforts made by the
Democratic administrations of Obama and Biden, the United States has formed a
relatively complete climate security strategy. With the increasing impact of climate
geopolitics on the world landscape, the United States begins to regard global
promotion of its climate security strategy as an important means to comprehensively
enhance the US military, economic, institutional and discourse hegemony in the
global process of low-carbon transformation. The Biden administration has fully
embedded the response to the climate crisis into the US domestic and foreign policies,
and spared no efforts to promote its global climate security strategy in a variety of
ways like creating consensus on the climate crisis among its allies, launching NATO’s
climate security framework, consolidating the US Army’s climate resilience and
promoting its military deployment in climate geography-sensitive areas across the
globe, expanding the US-led green technology alliance and clean energy supply chain,
enhancing its leadership of agenda setting and scientific discourse in global climate
security governance, strengthening military cooperation on dealing with global
climate risks, as well as promoting sustainable infrastructure standards in line with
climate security and human rights rules under the Indo-Pacific framework. However,
this expansion path featuring “national security first” in global climate security
participation is difficult to strike a balance between national security objectives and
human security objectives and highlights the tension between US national climate
security and global climate security. Coping with climate crisis calls for
comprehensive consideration of the rights and interests of developing countries so as
to promote a balanced, coordinated and inclusive new order of global climate security
governance based on the “development-security” concept.
[Keywords] climate security, the United States’ strategy, hegemonic maintenance,
climate geopolitics, global climate security governance
[Author] LI Xinlei, Researcher, Institute of Contemporary Socialism, Shandong
University; Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Political Science and Public
Administration, Shandong University (Jinan, 250100).

110 Debates on Climate Change and Security in the UN Security Council:
Convergence, Divergence and the Underlying Logic

BO Yan
[Abstract] Although the debates on climate change and security in the UN Security
Council have lasted for more than a decade, no universal resolution on climate change
and security has been reached so far. Most of the existing research literature tends to
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