Dear Gideon, For the moment I only read the introduction and the conclusion. It is unclear for me if you *compared *"how geoengineering could cause interstate military conflict" with "how *climate change alone* could cause interstate military conflict"? I didn't find reference to articles such as: * Bernauer, T., & Siegfried, T. (2012). Climate change and international water conflict in Central Asia. *Journal of Peace Research*, *49*(1), 227-239. * Scheffran, J., & Battaglini, A. (2011). Climate and conflicts: the security risks of global warming. *Regional Environmental Change*, *11*(Suppl 1), 27-39. * Breckner, M., & Sunde, U. (2019). Temperature extremes, global warming, and armed conflict: new insights from high resolution data. *World Development*, *123*, 104624. * Klare, M. T. (2007). Global warming battlefields: how climate change threatens security. *Current History*, *106*(703), 355-361. * Book: Mazo, J. (2010). *Climate conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it*. Routledge. * Book: Chellaney, B. (2015). *Water, peace, and war: Confronting the global water crisis*. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
Le ven. 3 oct. 2025 à 11:45, Gideon Futerman <[email protected]> a écrit : > I recently published a new preprint examining the link of Solar > geoengineering and war: > Sky Wars: Escalation Pathways in the Age of Solar Geoengineering by > Gideon Futerman, Peter Rautenbach :: SSRN > <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5434715>. > Brief summary of what we aim to do in the article: > - Provides the most complete literature review of discussions of how > geoengineering could cause interstate military conflict to date > - Explain conflict enabling securitisation dynamics with regards to SRM > - Explain an existing archetype for scenarios where SRM could cause war > using this theory, hopefully strengthening our understanding of plausible > conflict mechanisms > - Propose a new archetype for how SRM combined with countergeoengineering > could cause conflict > > The abstract is as follows: > > As the salience of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) - also known as > Solar Geoengineering - rises, there have been increasing discussions of the > possible security and conflict implications of these technologies. This > piece looks at SRM through the lens of securitization and how SRM can > securitize climate change and related disasters. Critically, SRM can enable > climate disasters to be attributed to SRM-deploying actors. By creating a > "threatening Other” on which to blame climate change, securitisation and > exceptional measures, such as conflict, can be pursued in response to > climatic events. Using past work, this piece builds a typology of conflict > pathways and explores how the causal mechanisms illuminated by > securitisation help explain conflict risk in these scenarios. Finally, with > conflict-inducing-securitization in mind, we add a new, unexplored, > conflict risk which outlines how conflict could occur in response to > counter-geoengineering — a response to SRM which has been seen as an > offramp for conflict risk. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/7e160350-ba01-4560-8f51-5fa265446587n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/7e160350-ba01-4560-8f51-5fa265446587n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAHodn9-0uYhBjstKcZfcBzd1Uz-07CLGT6MuxpLk%2BDBroko-uw%40mail.gmail.com.
