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About Sidney Michelini
Sidney Michelini is a PhD student at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research with the FutureLab - Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration. His work focuses on how climate, climate shocks, and climate change impact conflicts of different types.
Sidney Michelini is a PhD student at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research with the FutureLab - Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration. His work focuses on how climate, climate shocks, and climate change impact conflicts of different types.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sidney:
March 11, 2026
Island at the Edge of the World
Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long been a source of mystery. While the massive stone statues that popula…
September 23, 2025
More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and th…
July 18, 2025
Deterring Armageddon
The history of the world’s most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. As they signed…
July 15, 2025
The Celts
Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turke…
July 7, 2025
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, cli…
June 29, 2025
To Run the World
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold…
June 28, 2025
Inflation
Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. …
June 27, 2025
Empty Vessel
What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany…
June 25, 2025
Iran's Grand Strategy
Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country’s goals …
June 25, 2025
Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contempor…
January 3, 2024
The Economics of Violence
Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge UP, 2…
July 14, 2023
Green Card Soldier
While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time…
June 17, 2023
Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Michigan Press, 2022), Daniel Agbiboa takes African i…
June 7, 2023
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been…
May 24, 2023
The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks
Adrian Bazbauers and Susan Engel’s 2021 book The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development? (Routledge, 2…
November 11, 2022
Divided Environments
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increase…
April 7, 2022
Indefensible
Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard …
April 6, 2022
One Road to Riches?
Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponent…
March 29, 2022
Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter
The history of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East is marked by numerous stark failures and a few ephemeral successes. Jimmy Carter's short-lived Middle…
November 17, 2020
Reversing Climate Change
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky’s new book Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy is perhaps the singl…
September 23, 2020
Development Economics
Dr. Shahrukh Khan's new textbook Development Economics: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2019) is a fantastic book for teachers and students trying…
March 26, 2020
Randomistas
From the unending quest to turn metal into gold to the major discoveries that reveal how the universe works, experiments have always been a critical p…