This week on Babel, Marwa Daoudy, assistant professor at Georgetown University, joins Jon to talk about the climate-security nexus in Syria. Marwa and Jon discuss issues with past reforms in Syria, the relationship between climate change and human insecurity, and government corruption. Then, Jon, Will, and McKinley discuss a report Will released earlier in May on cross-border aid in Syria.\n\nEpisode Transcript:\xa0The Climate-Security Nexus with Marwa Daoudy, CSIS, June 2, 2020.\n\nMarwa Daoudy,\xa0The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security,\xa0Cambridge University Press, March 2020.\n\nMarwa Daoudy, \u201cThe Structure-Identity Nexus: Syria and Turkey\u2019s Collapse (2011),\u201d\xa0Cambridge Review of International Affairs\xa029 (3), 2016.\n\nWill Todman,\xa0Cross-Border Aid, Covid-19, and U.S. Decisions in Syria, CSIS, May 8, 2020.