Climate Change, Conflict and Development in Sudan: Global Neo-Malthusian Narratives and Local Power Struggles

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles

scholarly journals Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Ide ◽  
Marisa O. Ensor ◽  
Virginie Le Masson ◽  
Susanne Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Social Reproductive Labor

The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only played a marginal role in this research area. This is despite growing awareness of intersections between protecting women’s rights, building peace and security, and addressing environmental changes. This article advances the claim that adopting a gender perspective is integral for understanding the conflict implications of climate change. We substantiate this claim via three main points. First, gender is an essential, yet insufficiently considered intervening variable between climate change and conflict. Gender roles and identities as well as gendered power structures are important in facilitating or preventing climate-related conflicts. Second, climate change does affect armed conflicts and social unrest, but a gender perspective alters and expands the notion of what conflict can look like, and whose security is at stake. Such a perspective supports research inquiries that are grounded in everyday risks and that document alternative experiences of insecurity. Third, gender-differentiated vulnerabilities to both climate change and conflict stem from inequities within local power structures and socio-cultural norms and practices, including those related to social reproductive labor. Recognition of these power dynamics is key to understanding and promoting resilience to conflict and climate change. The overall lessons drawn for these three arguments is that gender concerns need to move center stage in future research and policy on climate change and conflicts.

Wardship

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-198
Author(s):  
Benedict Wiedemann
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
James I

In the first decades of the thirteenth century, Popes Innocent III and Honorius III found themselves bound to support the succession of three young kings—Henry III of England, James I of Aragon, and Frederick II of Sicily. Although a supposed feudal right of wardship has often been supposed to have motivated the popes, actually, papal letters changed and altered their justifications for papal solicitude depending on the circumstances of the time. In practice, papal involvement in these royal minorities was reactive: the pope replied to petitions he received. Consequently, papal mandates and instructions were often variable and even contradictory. Papal instructions—rather than being a medium for a centralized papal will to be expressed—were more often the means through which local power struggles were fought.

Partisan to Sovereign

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 140-187
Author(s):  
Kevin Li
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Local Power ◽  
World War ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Indochina War

The decade following the end of World War II saw the rise of the Bình Xuyên as a formidable military and political force. How did the Bình Xuyên emerge as local sovereigns? Eschewing the predominant “criminal” framework that has dominated our understanding of the group’s ascent, this article shows that competition to court the Bình Xuyên between the southern DRV and the French-sponsored Vietnamese governments as well as power struggles within those same state entities strengthened the Bình Xuyên’s local power. This pattern of interstate and intrastate competition in the early years of the First Indochina War laid the foundation for the group’s contentious relationship with its nominal Franco-Vietnamese patrons after its ralliement in 1948.

5. The past is in the present

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-126
Author(s):  
James R. Rush
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Past ◽  
New States

What remains today of Southeast Asia’s former kingdoms and colonies and its first-draft nations? “The past is in the present” suggests the answer is quite a lot. The extraordinary heterogeneity of Southeast Asia has not changed. Beneath the skin of the region’s national identities, thousands of separate ethnicities and languages and dialects remain, playing a role in local power struggles and sometimes in national ones. The impressive survival of the new states since independence, and their formal incorporation into a web of international organizations, suggest that Southeast Asia’s nations are here to stay. And yet, Southeast Asia remains rife with conflict. Often, the sleeping mandalas provide an explanation.

scholarly journals Inspecting the ‘extraordinary drain’: emigration and the urban experience in Merthyr Tydfil in the 1860s

Urban History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
BILL JONES
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Civic Consciousness

In the 1860s mass emigration from Merthyr Tydfil made a major impact on the town's fortunes and developing public sphere. The ‘extraordinary drain’ occasioned much concern and comment and reconfigured ongoing debates about Merthyr's contemporary condition and future survival. In turn, local power struggles, notions of the town's interests and emerging civic consciousness influenced interpretations of the nature, causes and meanings of the outflow. Emigration and the ‘urban’ thus interacted tellingly to help shape contemporary mentalities.

scholarly journals Putting Behavior into International Cooperation

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141
Author(s):  
Dirk Messner ◽  
Alejandro Guarin ◽  
Daniel Haun
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Self Interest

Cooperation among countries to deal with climate change and other global challenges seems almost impossible. However, recent research in the behavioral and evolutionary sciences suggests that people cooperate willingly and perhaps even naturally. Why the contradiction? In this paper we call for the need to think about international relations beyond the assumptions of rational choice and narrow self-interest. We suggest that seemingly intractable international challenges are not only the result of power struggles, but may also reflect the under-provisioning of the key enablers of cooperation—what we call the “cooperation hexagon”: reciprocity, trust, we-identity, enforcement, communication, reputation and fairness.

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