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Tropic of chaos : climate change and the new geography of violence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parenti, Christian
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nation Books, [2011]
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Political aspects.
Geopolitics > Environmental aspects.
Violence > Environmental aspects.
Political violence > Environmental aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Last call for illusion
  • Who killed Ekaru Loraman
  • Military soothsayers
  • War for a small planet : adaptation as counterinsurgency
  • Pt. II. Africa
  • Geopolitics of an east african cattle raid
  • Monsoons and tipping points
  • The rise and fall of East African states
  • Somali apocalypse
  • Theorizing failed states
  • Pt. III. Asia
  • Drugs, drought and Jihad environmental history of the afghanistan war
  • Kyrgyzstan's little climate war
  • india and pakistan glaciers, rivers, and unfinished business
  • India's drought rebels
  • Pt. IV. Latin America
  • Rio's agony : from extreme weather to "planet of slums"
  • Golgotha Mexicana : climate refugees, free trade, and the war next door
  • American walls and demagogues
  • Implications and possibilities.