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Thinking globally and acting regionally: securitising energy and environment
In evaluating issues within the so-called 'new agenda' in security studies, it is tempting to offer prescriptions addressing problems that affect world politics at the transnational and global levels of analysis. This is particularly the case for environmental issues, which have become progressively securitised within the discourse on international relations (Homer-Dixon 2001). To resolve environmental dangers such as resource depletion, energy security and anthropogenic climate change, much of the prevailing wisdom favours recourse to global civil society and global institutions (Barton et al. 2004). An under-appreciated fact here is that regional dynamics can affect outlooks towards global solutions perceived as the best way to address environmental problems in a variety of ways. On the one hand, excessive reliance on regionalism can make this task problematic. Conversely, however, regional solutions have in fact often proven far more appropriate than an exclusive reliance on global norms and laws, not to mention a weak global civil society that is still in its infancy
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Publication title
Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific : A Regional-Global Nexus?Editors
William T. TowPagination
266-283ISBN
9780521758826Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Cambridge University PressPlace of publication
New YorkExtent
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