Despite it being the most studied and arguably most profound of global environmental
change problems, there is relatively little research that explores climate change as a security …

In democracies around the world, societies have demonstrated that elections can have
major consequences for the environment. In Colombia, the 2022 presidential elections will …

Demographic and environmental factors have claimed a dominant position in the post-Cold
War security discourse. According to the neo-Malthusian conflict scenario, population …

Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN
Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace …

IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ARMED CONFLICT• 77 water in the dry
season for large sections of the developing world. More extreme precipitation also could …

Recent cross-national studies have found only moderate support for the idea that population
pressure and resource scarcity may lead to political violence, contrary to much of the case …

This paper builds on a large literature that explores the linkages between resource scarcity
and interstate conflict. Focusing on competing claims over cross-border rivers, we analyze …

Policymakers, military strategists and academics all increasingly hail climate change as a
security issue. This article revisits the (comparatively) long-standing “environmental security …

The scholarly debate over whether environmental degradation causes violent conflict is
ongoing. But as the chapter shows, a growing body of scholarly literature and case …

This introductory article emphasises the need to put the contemporary nation-building (state-
building) effort in post-Saddam Iraq and elsewhere in historical perspective. With the …