Global Warring

Combining climate research and interviews with geopolitical strategists and military planners, Global Warring identifies the environmental problems that are most likely to start wars, destroy economies and create failed states.

ISBN 0230621813   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780230621817 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 457 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Height (mm) 222 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 165 Publication date 13 Jan 2010   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY 333.7   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Introduction		Been There, Done That, and All I Got Were These Lousy Extinctions		1
Pt. 1		The Uss Sieve: How Environmental Change Is Drilling Holes in the Ship of State
1		The Coming Storm		25
Pt. 2		The New Geopolitical Icebergs: Or, How the North Was Lost
2		Life on the No Longer Permanent Permafrost		65
3		The Global Economy: Waiting for the Ship to Come In		79
4		A Short History of Modern Geopolitics, as Seen from the Deck of a Ship		85
5		The Great Cold Rush of '08		105
Pt. 3		Precipitating Change in Asia and Beyond: How China, India, and the West Are Trying to Make Friends in Interesting Times
6		Today's Weather: Intolerable with Periods of Uninhabitable		129
7		The Story So Far		151
8		Interesting Times, Narrowing Options		159
Pt. 4		The Turbulent Pacific: How Rising Sea Levels Could Wash Away Whole Countries and Swamp the Global Ship of State
9		Building a Geopolitical Ark		189
10		Drawing Lines in the Water		195
11		Fighting over Atlantis		217
		Conclusion: Weathering Change		237
		Acknowledgments		251
		Notes		253
		Index		273

'Cleo Paskal is original and compelling; a pioneering scholar of the new terrain where climate change confronts national security, she charts the dramatic implications not just for the game of nations but for their geographic borders, their resources and their fundamental interests.'- Martin Walker, senior director of the Global Business Policy Council and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of United Press International. 'Cleo Paskal's mastery over geopolitics has been fused to a remarkable understanding of just how the coming geophysical changes may affect our planet. This is the fist comprehensive view of the real consequences of environmental change.'- M D Nalapat, UNESCO Peace Chair and director of the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India "Cleo Paskal's vividly illustrates the complex interconnections between climate change, environmental conditions, and energy security. Rather than just take a global view, she also demonstrates how environmental changes will impact the lives of people across the globe." - Chad Briggs, Senior Advisor, Energy and Environmental Security Directorate. US Department of Energy. "In a field beset by hyperbole on the one hand, and complacency on the other, Cleo Paskal's work provides a refreshing, well-grounded and highly readable take on geopolitics and environmental change in the twenty-first century." - Jeffrey Mazo, International Institute for Strategic Studies "[Paskal] writes with the power of a journalist underpinned by the research habits of an academic... She has for years contributed learned articles on how rising sea levels may change international borders with major implications. Her latest book arrives with the clarity and importance of the crack of doom." - Tom Spencer, executive director, European Centre for Public Affairs "Cleo Paskal in her authoritative new book uses historical examples and modern climate science to draw parallels with 21st century geopolitics which is giving rise to climatepolitics. Paskal's extensive examination points to the uncomfortable conclusion that every country and continent will be seriously impacted by environmental changes this century. The idea that somehow the US and the rest of the developed world will be shielded from the impacts of global heating is patently false." - Jerry Cope, Huffington Post "Unlike so many other books on the subject, Paskal doesn't limit her scope to the catastrophic environmental damage that climate change could wreak. Instead, she expands her scope to provide a thorough and detailed explanation of how this looming environmental crisis will impact global security and the geopolitical status quo. Global Warring is a pleasure to read, even though its message is distressing. It is neither a sabre-rattling activist's rant nor a dreary policy tome, although it contains the most significant aspects of each. It is a book that makes the reader sit up and take notice and, with luck, take action." - David Leonard, Quill& Quire

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