The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security

ISBN-13: 9781108476089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 267 str.

Washington DC) Daoudy Marwa (Georgetown University

Opis

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

Recenzje

'This is an erudite, paradigmatic study of the origins of the ongoing Syrian civil war that commenced in March 2011 … Every policy maker in the US government should read this book.' R. W. Olson, Choice

Spis treści

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.