ISAS South Asia Scan

Climate impacts have been identified as the underlying threat factors that travel across both the ocean and security narrative platforms. This interrelationship – the ocean-climate-security nexus – demonstrates the construction of security in a multidimensional context where the threat factors are not singularly related to conflict and war. This South Asia Scan reveals that the ocean-climate-security nexus can help identify and explain the drivers of national and regional security interests of the island nations.