Origins of the Syrian Conflict - Climate Change and Human Security

Presents a new conceptual framework drawing on human security to evaluate the claim that climate change caused the conflict in Syria.

List of contents

Part I. The Context: History, Geography, Security: 1. Climate change and the Syrian revolution; 2. The many faces of environmental security; 3. When geography rules history; Part II. Human-Environmental Climate Security: 4. Rules of ideology and policy: from Ba'athism to the liberal age; 5. Vulnerability and resilience: human-environmental climate security (HECS) in Syria; 6. Syria: a (hi)story of vulnerability, resistance, and resilience.

About the author

Marwa Daoudy is Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC. The co-organizer of a major climate change conference at Princeton University, she has been a policy advisor and consultant for government agencies including the UNESCO-World Water Assessment Program, and contributed to the establishment of the Oxford Water Network, a research-led project which focuses on improving water security across the globe. She is the author of The Water Divide between Syria, Turkey and Iraq: Negotiation, Security and Power Asymmetry (2005), which was awarded the Ernest Lémonon prize by the Académie Française.

Summary

Policymakers, academics and the media have claimed that climate change causes conflicts. This study presents an innovative framework to evaluate this theory, asking whether climate change caused the conflict in Syria. Its argument and findings are essential for practitioners and scholars of climate change, security, and Middle Eastern politics.

Product details

• Authors: Marwa Daoudy, Marwa (Georgetown University Daoudy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108476089
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47608-9
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Syria, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political science & theory, Social impact of environmental issues, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Political science and theory, Demonstrations & protest movements, Armed Conflict