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:

Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

January 3, 2024

The Economics of Violence

Gary Shiffman
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge UP, 2…

Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)

July 14, 2023

Green Card Soldier

Sofya Aptekar
Hosted by Sidney Michelini
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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…

Daniel E Agbiboa, "Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

June 17, 2023

Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency

Daniel E Agbiboa
Hosted by Sidney Michelini
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In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Michigan Press, 2022), Daniel Agbiboa takes African i…

Tobias Ide, "Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts" (MIT Press, 2023)

June 7, 2023

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints

Tobias Ide
Hosted by Sidney Michelini
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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…

Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel, "The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?" (Routledge, 2023)

May 24, 2023

The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks

Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Adrian Bazbauers and Susan Engel’s 2021 book The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development? (Routledge, 2…

Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

November 11, 2022

Divided Environments

Jan Selby, Gabrielle Daoust, and Clemens Hoffmann
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increase…

Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)

April 7, 2022

Indefensible

Nic Marsh et al.
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard …

Haakon Gjerløw and Carl Henrik Knutsen, "One Road to Riches?: How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

April 6, 2022

One Road to Riches?

Haakon Gjerløw and Carl Henrik Knutsen
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponent…

Jørgen Jensehaugen, "Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

March 29, 2022

Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter

Jørgen Jensehaugen
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

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…

Graciela Chichilnisky, "Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy" (World Scientific, 2020)

November 17, 2020

Reversing Climate Change

Graciela Chichilnisky
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky’s new book Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy is perhaps the singl…

Shahrukh Khan, "Development Economics: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2019)

September 23, 2020

Development Economics

Shahrukh Khan
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Dr. Shahrukh Khan's new textbook Development Economics: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2019) is a fantastic book for teachers and students trying…

Andrew Leigh, "Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World" (Yale UP, 2018)

March 26, 2020

Randomistas

Andrew Leigh
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

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…