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Climate Change as Spatial Change: Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge.
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Geopolitics . Jun2023, p1-26. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Recent escalations in the severity of extreme weather events in Europe and Asia have set the stage for a rethink of international relations as a policy pathway towards dealing with climate change. A rethink of state obligations in international relations requires a refocus towards the social contract undergirding sovereignty and an acceptance that we are into the era of supra-sovereign consequences. Global warming attests to this expansive spatialisation of consequences. This article argues that the State can take two practical steps to cope with climate change: the spatialisation of obligations to citizens to protect them against extreme weather; and the need for officials and citizenry to accept that the sovereign state owes moral obligations to complex chains of culpability across geographical borders that transcend sovereignty itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14650045
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Geopolitics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164453101
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2225055