Isabelle Bond

Word and World Problems: Conflicting Conceptions and Realities of ‘Climate Security’

Isabelle Bond is a first-year DPhil student, researching how the concept of climate security could be further developed to better facilitate international cooperation. Bond is a Research Associate of the Climate Change and (In)Security Project, a joint initiative between the University of Oxford and the British Army’s Centre for Historical and Armed Conflict Research, and a casual lecturer, as well as Emerging Research Associate, at the Australian National University’s National Security College.

Other projects she is currently involved in include the ‘Environment and National Security’ project, convened by the Agile Initiative and the Oxford Martin School.

Bond has previously held positions with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Climate and Security Policy Centre, and within the Australian Government as an International Policy Officer with the Department of Defence and on the investigations team with the Clean Energy Regulator.

She holds a BA in Antarctic and Marine Science from the University of Tasmania and an MA in Strategic Studies from the Australian National University. 

• Bond, I. (2024) Emissions, the Strategic Omission: Climate Security and Australia’s National Intelligence Community. International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 38 (2): 495-527.
• Bond, I. and Mortensen, J. (2023) The changing value of Antarctica to Australia’s security policy. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77(3): 299-316.