INDEX
Adaptation to climate change
definition/description
political adaptation
speed of change and
technical adaptation
See also Military and security/climate change; specific locations
Afghanistan
1973 coup d’état
Cold War competition in
Daud and
Durand Line and
environmental degradation of
Ghor Province
India-Pakistan conflicts and
India relationship
Pashtuns and
Saur Revolution
Soviet Union and
Taliban and
war in
Wardak
Zahir Shah’s reign
Afghanistan/climate change
agriculture and
catastrophic convergence with
deforestation
desertification
droughts (2006–2010)
droughts/famines (1969–1973)
floods (2010)
Kabul River
Nangarhar Province’s extreme weather
poppy as drought resistant
poppy eradication/effects
poppy growing/industry
snowmelt/rainfall changes
Taliban paying fighters and
violence and
Africa
1960s/1970s droughts and famines
Cuba and
desertification and
European “Scramble for Africa,”
Great Rift Valley
imported weapons and
kleptocracy
map
West/Central guerrilla armies
See also East Africa; specific locations
Africa’s pastoralist corridor
cattle importance
description
desertification
drought/flash flooding
pastoralists’ status
responses to water shortages
road trip in
Small Arms Survey
state failure and
violence causality
violence/gun culture
See also East African cattle raids; Kenya; Turkana; Uganda
Africa’s pastoralist corridor/cattle raiding
1970s droughts and
1980s drought and
British colonization and
causality
cheap guns and
Karamojong gunmen/Iteso conflicts
organized crime/political bosses and
resource conflicts
“traditional” cattle raiding
Agamben, Giorgio
Age of Consequences (Campbell et al.)
Agnew, Spiro
Agroforestry
Aidid, Mohamed Farrah
Al-Maliki, Nouri
Al Qaeda
Alves, Dejacir
Amin, Hafizullah
Amin, Idi
background
See also Uganda under Amin
Anderson, David
Andres, Peter
Angola
Anti-Intellectualism in American History (Hofstadter)
Anwar, Raja
Apache
Araujo, Osmar Careinro
Arias, Enrique Desmond
Ariong, Lucas
Asia
map(fig.)
See also Central Asian new states; specific countries
Bakiyev, Kurmanbek
Banana wars
Bangladesh
Barnett, Thomas
Barnett’s Core/Gap
Barre, Mohammed Siad
Barry, Tom
Bat populations decline
Beals, Carlton
Beck, Glenn
Bek, Ibrahim
Berlin Conference (1885)
Bevin, Ernest
Bheem, Komaram
Bhutto, Murtaza
Bin Laden, Osama
Blair, Dennis C.
Bolivia
climate change mitigation
description
IMF and
nationalization of industries
protests over gas industry
Boortz, Neal
Bourgeois, Philippe
Bowden, Charles
Braga, Marcio Romero de Araujo
Brasil: Nunca Mais
Brazil
1930s Estado Novo
1983 protests
agroforestry
Bolsa Família
Cold War violence and
“crisis of violence” causes
debt
debt payoff
economy (1930s-1960s)
Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)
hyperinflation
import-substitution industrialization (ISI)
inequality
land reform and
military dictatorship
Movimento dos Trabalhadore Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
neoliberalism/effects
oil prices and
rolling back neoliberalism
São Paulo
tariffs
urban guerrillas
urbanization
Brazil, Rio
extreme weather
inequality
murder rate
Brazil, Rio/favelas
Comando Vermelho (CV) gang
description
gangs running
migration from countryside and
“pacification” program
police “management”/repression
poverty increase and
relative deprivation and
vigilantes and
violence
Brazil/climate change
agricultural adaptation
burning/monocropping
cities
disease and
ITCZ
migration from countryside
Nordeste aid
Nordeste extreme weather/effects
predictions
St. Luzia’s Day ritual
Brenner, Robert
Brewer, Jan
Buchanan, Pat
Butler, Smedley
Calderón, Felipe
Caldwell, Charles
Campbell, Kurt
Cancún climate meeting/agreement
Capitalism
1970s saturation
catastrophic convergence and
“golden age” of
imperialism and
uneven development
See also specific countries
Caravan newspaper
Cárdenas, Lazaro
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
Caritas (Catholic NGO)
Carter, Jimmy
Carvalha, Claudio
Castañeda, Jorge
Castro, Fidel
Catastrophic convergence
Cold War militarism and
counterinsurgency
geography of
neoliberal capitalism and
overview
responses
violent conflict risks
See also specific locations
Central Asian new states
description
Fergana Valley
kleptocracy and
neoliberalism and
radical Islam and
violence
Cherokee
Cholera
Churchill, Winston
Climate change
atmospheric carbon dioxide statistics
Commodity Food Price Index and
environmental crisis causes and
environmental crisis vs.
geography of
greenhouse effect
locked-in effects
permafrost melting and
positive feedback loops
social challenges overview
speed of
statistics overview
tipping points
two degrees Celsius change
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US energy economy and
Climate-change denialists
atomic-era physicists
Exxon
fossil fuel industry
IPCC attacks by
Koch brothers/Industries
Clinton, Bill
CNA Corporation report (2007)
COIN. See Counterinsurgency
Cold War
catastrophic convergence and
counterinsurgency legacy
cultivating proxies
Global South instability and
weapons legacy
See also Counterinsurgency; specific countries
Collier, Robert
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976 (Gleijeses)
Conrad, Joseph
Counterinsurgency
banana wars
catastrophic convergence and
Central America
conventional warfare vs.
as “dirty wars,”
early doctrine on
legacy of violence/crime
Native Americans and
operational environment
social fabric destruction with
as “three-block war,”
US conventional military capacity and
war games
See also Small wars; specific wars
Crook, George
Cuba and Africa
Custer, George A.
Da Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula
Da Silva, William
Daud, Mohammed Khan
Defensive Duffers Drift, The (Swinton)
Deforestation
Afghanistan
Africa
Brazil
India
mangroves
Mexico
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Belgian violence
governance/administration and
Kinshasa
Kisangani
kleptocracy
Dermota, Ken
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (Rashid)
Desertification
Diaz, Porfirio
Dobbs, Lou
Douglas, Mary
Drought
predictions for planet
See also specific locations; Water resources
Durand, Mortimer
East Africa
1980s droughts/famine
conflict system components
El Niño
ITCZ
Mount Elgon’s snow pack
Mount Kilimanjaro’s snow pack
Pacific Oceans and weather
responses to water shortages
See also specific locations; specific people
East Africa Company (British)
East African cattle raids
cattle importance
climate change and
description
drought and
Ekaru Loruman’s murder
Pokot and
Turkana and
weapons
well location and
See also Africa’s pastoralist corridor
East India Company (British)
Echeverría, Luis
Economist, The
El Diario (Juarez newspaper)
El Niño
1980s droughts/famine
East Africa
Mexico
and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) effects
El Salvador
counterinsurgency and
crime rate
FMLN
Hurricane Ida
US proxy forces
Elbrick, Charles B.
Elikin, Caroline
Eliot, T.S.
Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Grandin)
Engels, Friedrich
Erlich, Paul
Escobar, Pablo
Ethiopia
Cold War competition
Dergue regime
emperor Haile Selassie
Sahelian drought
Somali (Ogaden) War
See also Africa’s pastoralist corridor
“Ethnoliberation opportunism,”
Failed states
cheap weapons and
conflict resources and
description
as development in reverse
Fund for Peace index/criteria
governance/administration in
modern state vs.
security challenge and
See also specific states
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)
Field Manual, Tactics in Counterinsurgency
Finan, Timothy J.
Fingar, Thomas
Forbes magazine
Four Days in September (film)
Four Hundred Against One (William da Silva)
Fuentes, Amado Carrillo
Fuerth, Leon
Funaro, Dilson
Gabeira, Fernando
Gaddar
Galindo, Celso Nava
Galindo, Jesus Manuel
Garcia, Tanila
Garissa and water resources
Gates, Bill
Gates, Robert
Gaud, William
Geoengineering
Geronimo
Gheen, William
Gibbon, Edward
Gleijeses, Piero
Global South
Cold War militarism and
neoliberal capitalism effects
See also specific locations
Goffman, Erving
Goodell, Jeff
Goodman, Amy
Gore, Al
Grandin, Greg
Grant, Madison
Grant, Richard
Graves, Michael
Great Depression
Green Revolution
Greenpeace
Guardian
Guatemala
1980s Civil War
counterinsurgency and
crime rate
drought
Guerrilla Warfare (Guevara)
Guevara, Ernesto Che
Guns and Governance (Mkutu)
Gwyn, Charles
Haider, Jörg
Haile-Mariam, Mengistu
Haiti
Hansen, James
Harvey, David
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
Hertsgaard, Mark
Herzen, Alexander
Ho Chi Minh
Hofstadter, Richard
Homer-Dixon, Thomas
Honduras
Honeybee populations decline
How to Cool the Planet (Goodell)
Human Rights Watch/reports
Hurricane Katrina
Immigration
European xenophobia/racism
money for coyotes
restrictive policies on
See also United States/immigration
Immigration/climate change
ability to migrate and
catastrophic convergence and
desertification and
military implications
predictions
statistics on
See also Refugees; US-Mexico border
Imperial Policing (Gwyn)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Elikin)
Inconvenient Truth, An (Gore’s documentary)
India
Andhra Pradesh
Telangana
water impoundment/irrigation systems
India/climate change
Bt cotton
catastrophic convergence
corruption with water management
cotton and moneylenders
cotton’s water needs
debt and suicides
deforestation
denialists
drought/Naxalite violence
economic neoliberalis
m and
Green Revolution and
Himalayan ice pack and
militarized Bangladesh border
monsoons and
Muslim Bangladeshi immigrants and
predictions
India/Naxalites (Maoists)
Communist Party of India
conflict/violence
drought/violence
Greyhounds
history
landmines
Naidu attack/aftermath
Operation Polo
situation today
India-Pakistan conflicts
Afghanistan and
Bangladesh and
India-Afghanistan relationship
India’s dams and
Indus Water Treaty (1960)
Kashmir and
militant Islamists and
Partition
rivers’ control and
water/climate change and
World Bank and
Indus river
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
African desertification predictions
on agroforestry
attack by climate-change denialists
climate change conclusions
emissions reductions recommendations
Fourth Assessment Report
on Latin America
predictions for India
role/activities
sea level rise estimates
speed of climate change and
International Monetary Fund IMF
harmful effects of
restructuring/enforced austerity
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Brazil and
climate change effects on
description
East Africa and
rainfall and
two degrees Celsius change
IPCC. See Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Iranian revolution
Iraq war
detainees abuse incident
Safwa militia (Sunni)
Shia death squads
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
ITCZ. See Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
IV Gen nuclear plants
Jamaat-ut-Dawa (JuD)
James, William
Jordan, Phil
Journal of Applied Meteorology
Kahn, Abdul Racman
Kalenjin tribes
Karmal, Babrak
Karzai, Hamid/government
Kashmir
India-Pakistan conflicts
militant Islamists and
Kazakhstan
See also Central Asian new states
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
2008 election/effects
agriculture importance
bimodal rainfall
climate change
cooperation with resource scarcity (study)
deforestation
drought
drought effects on herders (study)
drought frequency
economy/rainfall correlation
famine-response system
firearms sources
flooding
internally displaced person (IDP) camps
locust swarms
Meteorological Office data
Mount Kenya’s glaciers
small arms proliferation
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