1st Edition
Security and Climate Change International Relations and the Limits of Realism
By Mark Lacy
Copyright 2005
180 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change.
It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests on a dangerous contradiction; far from delivering security it serves to limit the way we think about... Read more
1. Introduction: The Tragedy of Realism 2. The World is a Laboratory: Climate Change and Hierarchies of (In)Security 3. Illusions of Realism: Techno-Optimism, Realist Strategies and Think-Tanks 4. Mearsheimer and the Vicious Circle: Networks of Realism, Climate Change and the Clinton Administration 5. Conclusion: Moral (In)Security and the Limits of Realism
Biography
Dr Mark J. Lacy is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University, UK.
