Authors
Anna Powles and Jose Sousa-Santos
Abstract
The Pacific is facing an array of complex and, at times converging, security challenges ranging from the existential threat posed by climate change to the enduring threat of transnational crime. Increasingly, however, geopolitical competition is threatening to ‘distract the region and its partners from efforts to address its existing security priorities addressing climate security, supporting human security and disrupting criminal activity’ (Pacific Islands Forum, 2022). This chapter explores the relationship between climate change, a systemic risk to the Pacific, the geopolitical vulnerability of the Pacific region as a persistent threat, and transnational crime as an enduring threat. It considers the ways in which climate change intersects with and amplifies the geopolitical vulnerability of the Pacific region and transnational crime by drawing on the available literature and the observations of the authors.
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