Surfing in real time on the top of an epochal wave—China’s rise—Scott Moore’s book offers a sophisticated approach to the role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in world affairs. Reviewers Matteo Dian and Angel Hsu concur that Moore offers an ambitious and nuanced take on the counteracting of cooperation and competition mainly between…
Tag: climate change
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-22 on Joshua Busby, States and Nature
Scholars and pundits have long been interested in understanding how climate change could generate negative security outcomes, such as protests, civil wars, and interstate conflicts. Yet the contentious debate over whether drought in Syria contributed to the outbreak of civil war in 2011 demonstrates the complexities involved in making causal connections between climate change and…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Discussion: From the Global to the Planetary
I’ve gathered us to discuss the importance of the concept of ‘planetary’ as a framing for environmental and political questions in the second half of the twentieth century (in the main).[1] We have all worked in some way on this idea because it’s impossible not to if you study the shifting ways in which we…