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"Under what conditions does climate change potentially lead to negative security outcomes? In brief, this book argues that climate change is most likely to trigger conflict and humanitarian emergencies in countries that have (1) weak state capacity, (2) exclusive political institutions, and (3) when international assistance is blocked or delivered unevenly. Where state capacity reflects a government's ability to prepare for climate shocks and help people in times of need, inclusive political institutions capture their willingness to help all or merely some of their citizens. International assistance can partially compensate for weak state capacity. Countries that have stronger state capacity, more political inclusion, and which can tap international assistance to help them are less likely to experience violence or humanitarian emergencies. The book uses paired cases of countries (Somalia and Ethiopia, Syria and Lebanon, and Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India) that experienced similar environmental exposure but different security outcomes to understand why climate hazards lead to negative security outcomes in some situations but not others"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Problems with the exercise; 3. India; 4. China; 5. The Islamic world; 6. Conclusions.
About the author
Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); honorary professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities; a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas; and a Fellow of the British Academy.Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. He is a Past President of the International Studies Association (ISA) and has won ISA Distinguished Scholar Awards (for contribution to study of International Organization and Non-Western International Relations).
Summary
Aimed at readers interested in constructing a less West-centric, more global discipline of International Relations, this book provides a concise, thorough introduction to the thought and practice of international relations from premodern India, China and the Islamic world, and how it relates to modern IR.
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'This short book packs a disproportionately big punch in advancing Global IR. It does this most impressively by, inter alia, showing how many of the concepts of IR that have for so long been assumed to be Western are in fact more genuinely universal given that they found their place in various ways in pre-modern Islam, India and China, sometimes even pre-dating their emergence in the West.' John M. Hobson, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
