1st Edition
Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa 15,000 Years of Crises, Setbacks, and Adaptation
1. 15,000 Years of Climate Change in the MENA: Big History, Big Questions
2. Climate Change from the Younger Dryas to the Little Ice Age
3. The Origins of Agriculture, Drought, and Ancient Empires
4. Drought and Political-Economic Transformations in the Ancient Near East
5. Cooling, Water Scarcity, and Societal Crises in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
6. Environmental Fragility in the MENA from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Eras
7. Global Warming in the MENA Today and in the Coming Decades
8. Climate Wars – Canaries in the Coal Mine?
9. Water, Food, and Adaptation
10. The End of the MENA?
Biography
William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Rogers Chair of Political Science Emeritus, Indiana University; Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics; a former President of the International Studies Association; and a former Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Quarterly.
Leila Zakhirova is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, and a Co-Editor of Asian Security. She is currently researching the impact of climate change on human security.
