Environmental impacts on Defense and Security

Connections, the journal of the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC), invites submissions for its upcoming issue which will focus on the security implications of environmental degradation, climate change, and geopolitics of natural resources. The issue takes a broader perspective and consider the Planet Earth as the core subject of the issue and examines the environmental, economic, political, and demographic discussions that are connected to the regional and global security discussions.

Potential authors will be invited to focus on certain issues, such as:

• Climate Change
• Governance of Protecting the Planet and its security implications
• Global governance and potential for cooperation
• Securitization of the Earth resources
• Deforestation and conflict
• Water and conflict
• Natural disasters and Crisis management
• Population: overpopulation, migration, and displacement 
• Space and security
• Oceans and security

Connections is a peer-reviewed publication. Articles are unclassified, and readers can access the open-source articles from all over the world. The journal is published in English and then translated and published in Russian in order to increase its coverage and impact.

Articles should be original manuscripts in the range of 3,000 to 5,000 words, in the English language, written in a lucid and clear style for a target audience of informed defense and security affairs practitioners, and academics.

Articles need to be submitted not later than 30 April 2024. The expected publication for this issue is August 2024.

Additional author guidance is available on the Connections website at https://connections-qj.org/guide-authors

Submitted manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure the quality and relevance of the contributions. Articles will also undergo a military prepublication review, to prevent the publication of classified or sensitive information.

For inquiries and submission-related matters, please contact pfpcpublications2@marshallcenter.org

We look forward to receiving your proposed article.