Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus.
Climate change might give the Soviet Union a competitive advantage in the Cold War. Extreme droughts contributed to wars in Darfur, Syria or Yemen. Melting sea ice creates geopolitical risks. Russia's climate-destroying hydrocarbons enabled its invasion of Ukraine. These are just some of the many ways in which climate change and conflicts have been linked into a climate-security nexus. In this innovative book, Matti Goldberg considers how such connections are constructed and asks to what extent they are driven by evidence and science. Goldberg describes the tools used to present the wars of Darfur and Syria as climate wars and considers the fragmented role of the sciences in those presentations as well as the resulting patterns of influence and marginalization of impacted populations. The author also highlights how the international community can better integrate the sit
Table of Contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. The climate-security contradiction: accelerating securitization under disputed evidence
3. Nexus formation, knowledge and international relations
4. Understanding knowledge and climate-conflict links with a sociology of translations
5. Darfur: the first “climate war”?
6. Syria: did climate change “open the gates of hell”?
7. Comparing the two climate wars
8. Knowledge and the making of climate-conflict links
9. Finding a balance between knowledge and narratives
Index
