Reality for realists: Climate Change and the Nation State

2021 ◽  
pp. 2336825X2110090
Author(s):  
Roger Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nation State

Adapting to climate change in Sámi reindeer herding: the nation-state as problem and solution

2001 ◽  
pp. 417-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik S. Reinert ◽  
Iulie Aslaksen ◽  
Inger Marie G. Eira ◽  
Svein D. Mathiesen ◽  
Hugo Reinert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Reindeer Herding

Factors of Production and the State: Capital, Labour, Energy

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-627
Author(s):  
Marta Musso
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Capital ◽  
First Time ◽  
News Headlines

Is state intervention making a comeback in economic policy? Should it make a comeback in economic policy? And, if so, what should this intervention look like? The relations between the state and the economy are a recurring theme throughout modern history, at least since the invention of the nation-state, but in Covid Europe these questions have made the news headlines for the first time in decades. This has been in addition to the strains and challenges posed to the global economy by climate change, which have increasingly put state intervention at the forefront of economic policy. In this context, it is not surprising that state intervention has been the subject of many new books. The ones under review here, all published between 2014 and 2020, add new food for thought to the topic. They raise important questions at a time when ideas around the relations between state, entrepreneurship and resources are beginning to be rediscussed, even in the most conservative economic circles.

Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chukwumerije Okereke ◽  
Harriet Bulkeley ◽  
Heike Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Critical Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Private Authority ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

The governance of climate change has traditionally been conceived as an issue of international co-operation and considered through the lens of regime analysis. Increasingly, scholars of global governance have highlighted the multiple parallel initiatives involving a range of actors at different levels of governance through which this issue is being addressed. In this paper, we argue that this phenomenon warrants a re-engagement with some of the conceptual cornerstones of international studies. We highlight the conceptual challenges posed by the increasing involvement of non-nation-state actors (NNSAs) in the governance of climate change and explore the potential for drawing from alternative theoretical traditions to address these challenges. Specifically, the paper combines insights from neo-Gramscian and governmentality perspectives as a means of providing the critical space required to generate deeper understanding of: (a) the nature of power in global governance; (b) the relationship between public and private authority; (c) the dynamics between structure and agency; and (d) the rationalities and practices of governance.

From Kyoto to Paris

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
Moses Metumara Duruji ◽  
Faith O. Olanrewaju ◽  
Favour U. Duruji-Moses
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Interest ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Binding Agreement

The Earth Summit of 1992 held in Rio de Janeiro awakened the consciousness of the world to the danger of climate change. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provided the platform for parties to negotiate on ways of moving forward. The global acknowledgement of the weightiness of the climate change and the future of the planet galvanized international agreements to this regard. Consequently, a landmark agreement was brokered in 1992 at Kyoto, Japan and 2015 in Paris, France. However, the strong issues of national interest tend to bedevil the implementation that would take the world forward on climate change. The chapter therefore examined multilateralism from the platform of climate change conferences and analyzed the political undertone behind disappointing outcomes even when most of the negotiators realized that the only way to salvage the impending doom is a multilateral binding agreement when nation-state can subsume their narrow interest.

Migration Crises

2018 ◽  
pp. xxx-18
Author(s):  
Cecilia Menjívar ◽  
Marie Ruiz ◽  
Immanuel Ness
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Global Construction ◽  
The Media ◽  
Conceptual Explanations ◽  
Migrant Groups

This chapter introduces the two interrelated aspects of migration crises that animate this volume. It summarizes the range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental conditions that generate migration crises around the globe which the contributions in the book address. The chapter challenges the term “crisis” as overused and normalized today, offers conceptual explanations of migration perceived as crisis, and questions the influence of nation-state ideologies as well as the reasons why some migrant groups are framed as crises and others are not, mainly based on ethnicity and economic arguments. Finally, the chapter introduces the wide variety of case studies from historical contexts, conflicts, climate change, transit countries, policy responses, the media, gender issues, as well as integration and multiculturalism to account for the global construction of migration crises.

scholarly journals Environmental citizenship in geography and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
Suvi Huttunen ◽  
Miikka Salo ◽  
Riikka Aro ◽  
Anni Turunen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Environmental Citizenship ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

The need for wider action against environmental problems such as climate change has brought the debate about the role of citizen to the political, practical, and scientific domains. Environmental citizenship provides a useful tool to conceptualize the relation between citizenship and the environment. However, there exists considerable variation in the ways environmental citizenship is understood regarding both the aspect of citizenship and the relationship to the environment. In this article, we review the literature on environmental citizenship and investigate the evolution of the concept. The article is based on a literature search with an emphasis on geographical research. The concept of environmental citizenship has moved relatively far from the Ancient Greek or Marshallian conceptualizations of citizenship as rights and responsibilities bearing membership of a nation state. Environmental citizenship literature has been influenced by the relational approach to space, focus on citizenship as acts and processes rather than a status and the broad spectrum of post-human thinking. However, conceptual clarification between different approaches to environmental citizenship is needed especially in relation to post-human approaches. Geographical thinking can provide fruitful ways to develop the understanding of environmental citizenship towards a more inclusive, less individualized, globally responsible, and plural citizenship.

scholarly journals Lessons From Rojava for the Paradigm of Social Ecology

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cihad Hammy ◽  
Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
North East ◽  
Ecological Society ◽  
Institutional Architecture

This essay addresses two related questions raised by the editors of the research topic for “Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times?” In particular, it explores: 1) how we can identify new tools and perspectives from which to address the multiple and mutually reinforcing problems accumulating around climate change; and 2) what institutional alternatives to the nation-state need to be created and empowered to tackle such complex problems. It does so through an in-depth treatment of the paradigm of “social ecology” and the associated political project of “democratic confederalism.” It begins with an overview of the argument, first advanced by Murray Bookchin and subsequently adopted and adapted by the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, that building an ecological society requires an assault on hierarchy in all its forms, and the construction of alternative, direct-democratic institutions capable of transcending the system of the capitalist nation-state. It sketches the institutional architecture of popular assemblies central to this project, both emphasizing their potential to contest capitalist social-property relations and hierarchies intrinsic to the nation-state and pointing out some sources of resilience of the existing system. It hones in on the experience of the revolutionary forces in control of the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES), who have been directly inspired by Öcalan’s ideas. It highlights both the AANES’s achievements as well as the significant obstacles it has encountered in the attempt to bring into being a radically-egalitarian, ecological society. It concludes by drawing lessons from these difficulties.

From Kyoto to Paris

2022 ◽  
pp. 1985-2004
Author(s):  
Moses Metumara Duruji ◽  
Faith O. Olanrewaju ◽  
Favour U. Duruji-Moses
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Interest ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Binding Agreement

The Earth Summit of 1992 held in Rio de Janeiro awakened the consciousness of the world to the danger of climate change. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provided the platform for parties to negotiate on ways of moving forward. The global acknowledgement of the weightiness of the climate change and the future of the planet galvanized international agreements to this regard. Consequently, a landmark agreement was brokered in 1992 at Kyoto, Japan and 2015 in Paris, France. However, the strong issues of national interest tend to bedevil the implementation that would take the world forward on climate change. The chapter therefore examined multilateralism from the platform of climate change conferences and analyzed the political undertone behind disappointing outcomes even when most of the negotiators realized that the only way to salvage the impending doom is a multilateral binding agreement when nation-state can subsume their narrow interest.

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