The ASEAN Way Out? Toward Cooperative Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia
Notwithstanding its long-standing policy of non-interference, ASEAN is well-suited to respond and cooperate regionally on transboundary environmental issues.
Review Feature – Perspectives on Eco-Socialism
At a time when it is apparent that green capitalist proposals are insufficient, these two books are welcome additions to the growing literature on eco-socialism.
Improving Democracy for the Future: Why Democracy Can Handle Climate Change
The path lies not in suspending democracy but improving it: create better democracies with the capacity for collective action and a commitment to ecological values.
Small Island Climate Diplomacy in the Maldives and Beyond
The Maldives’ conference was a milstone initiative of island diplomacy. It drew the ideational framework of SIDS’ leadership in climate politics laying foundations for their island diplomacy.
Reducing Greenhouse Gases Is a Security Issue
Climate change isn’t just an environmental or economic problem. It’s also a security problem because of food and water shortages, humanitarian emergencies, and migration.
Interview – Kate Ferguson
Kate Ferguson talks to us about identity-based violence, the rise in mass-atrocities, the effectiveness of R2P, and the relationship between academia and policy-making.
Human Rights and Climate Change in the Philippines
In the state-centric human rights infrastructure, the government’s compliance with its human rights duties and standards to regulate corporations should be the central focus.
Rethinking the Anthropocene as Carnivalocene
The Anthropocene is a deeply intense, material experience: a wild romp of the grotesque and the transgressive, emphasising our shared character of Earthly being.
The Great Thaw: Climate Change and the Post-Cold War World
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the geopolitical climate frozen from the Cold War along with our understanding of climate change and its security risks have thawed.
Review – The Microbial State
Focusing on microbes and drawing on biology and science and technology studies, Stefanie Fishel’s book re-theorises the body to provide a biocentric view of politics.
