The scale of climate change-related impacts in Southeast Asia and its reverberation within strategic competition has the potential to be massive. [...] national security and defense. Given the complexities of climate change-related risks and their impacts on security strategy, it is time to rethink U. S. [...] To address emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia, a deeper complex analysis of the interactions of climate security and geopolitics needs to be considered. [...] Objective #3: Advance environmental geopolitics as a theoretical framework to better understand how the increasing stress of climate change will affect food-energy-water systems and human security in Southeast Asia. [...] Overall, the framework concentrates on enhanced, reflexive, and cross-scale understandings of how adversarial geopolitics shape and is shaped by emerging climate security challenges in new domains in Southeast Asia. [...] To address our research objectives, we employ a systematic discourse analysis approach that aims to understand better how discourses on climate security and democratic governance shape and are shaped by the broader geopolitics of (in)security in Southeast Asia. [...] Increasing duration, intensity, and impact of climate change-related risks. To the extent that democratic backsliding continues to impact governance practices, weakened collaboration capacity to address climate security is more likely in Southeast Asia. [...] We utilize intertextuality to develop a more specific framework of analysis that determines if and how dominant frames legitimize geopolitical codes concerning climate change and security in Southeast Asia. [...] IRMs provide a focused way in which to engage discourse analysis. IRMs were utilized separately for the two critical components of our geopolitics framework: climate security and democratic governance. [...] The scale of climate change-related impacts in Southeast Asia has the potential to be massive.
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