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Climate Change, National Security and Geopolitics: Strategies and Responses of Five Major Powers
NY :
Routledge, 2026.
Academic editor: J. S. Hauger, R. Mizo
This book is a comprehensive study on how the national security sectors of China, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States have engaged the idea of climate change as an existential threat. Climate Change, National Security and Geopolitics examines the respective ways in which the five states have framed the issue of climate change in relation to their larger national security construction. It investigates the extent to which these countries have engaged with climate change as a security challenge, and how this has informed their larger security policymaking and practice. The authors employ a conceptual framework that represents the complex relationship between geopolitics and the environment to grasp the nature of the threat and to assess the actions available to governments to manage it. The book also considers the interactions of the five states in the United Nations Security Council as they debate their different understandings on the climate-security nexus. This volume offers real-world case studies by national scholars of environmental security and an analytical assessment of pathways and barriers to their nations’ future cooperation. It will therefore be of great interest to security sector professionals, as well as to students, scholars, and researchers studying climate change, military studies, international security, and environmental peace and conflict studies.
Chapters
Makarov I. A., Chistikova A., , in: Climate Change, National Security and Geopolitics: Strategies and Responses of Five Major Powers.: NY: Routledge, 2026. Ch. 5 P. 82–102.
This chapter describes climate security discourse and practices developing in Russia for the last decade. It reveals that, while Russia faces severe physical risks from climate change, climate change is scarcely perceived as an existential threat among key decision-makers and the population. The country’s climate policies are more focused on adaptation, while its mitigation policy ...
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Language:
English
Nisnevich Y. A., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2026 Т. 70 № 11 С. 114–127
The article analyzes the phenomenon of destructive transformation of democratic governance into neo-authoritarianism in the context of post-industrial civilizational transition, a process that levels the rigid, hierarchically centralized structure of interaction between actors in the global political arena. This transformation is a political process that goes through two consecutive stages: authoritarian diffusion and authoritarian rollback.
Authoritarian ...
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Чирикова А. Е., Ledyaev V. G., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 3 С. 57–89
This article presents the outcomes of an empirical study of power and leadership
in four small Russian towns in the Ivanovo region, conducted in two stages, in 2023 and
2025–2026. The main research method is in-depth interviews (95 in total) with key actors
in local politics. The study focused on the effectiveness of municipal government as
perceived by local ...
Added: October 29, 2026
Devyatnikov V., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2026 Т. 121 № 2 С. 104–125
The article evaluates the impact of redistricting on voter turnout in elections to regional legislative assemblies in Russia, interpreting changes in single-member district boundaries not as a binary event but as an intervention of varying intensity in the local electoral neighborhood. Using panel data on polling stations for 2014-2023 across 18 regions, the study constructs ...
Added: October 29, 2026
Афанасьев М. Н., Afanasyeva O. V., Краснослободцев В. П., Россия и современный мир 2026 № 1(130) С. 18–34
The authors of the article enter into a conceptual dialogue with the author of the book “The Defeat of the West", Emmanuel Todd. By examining the causes of social decline in the West identified by Todd, the authors demonstrate that in a globally Westernized world, the factors of systemic degradation are universal, as they are ...
Added: October 29, 2026
Афанасьев М., Afanasyeva O. V., Краснослободцев В., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2026 Т. 70 № 8 С. 92–105
The authors of the article oppose the expert mainstream, which is based on methodological individualism and reduces social well-being to the standard of living, education, and freedom of individuals. Mainstream measurements do not consider historically established communities as subjects of development, and therefore do not notice the obvious paradox: maximizing what is commonly considered to ...
Added: October 29, 2026
Костюнина С. Б., Современная мировая экономика 2026 Т. 4 № 1 С. 26–49
The energy transition has the potential to become an economic revolution. For countries that depend on hydrocarbon imports, the transition to low-carbon technologies has become not only a factor in energy supply, energy security, economic growth, and environmental protection, but also a factor influencing global markets. To examine this influence and assess the prospects for ...
Added: October 27, 2026
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In an era defined by shifting global dynamics, this book explores the transformative partnership between two of Asia’s most influential democracies. This volume delves into the strategic convergence of India and Japan, examining their collaborative efforts to address pressing geopolitical, technological, and societal challenges in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. From the bustling connectivity corridors of ...
Added: October 27, 2026
Paramonov O., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 3 С. 88–105
The article examines Japan’s policy toward the South Pacific states in the context of maritime
boundaries, sovereignty, and regional security. It shows that Japan’s presence in the region is
evolving from traditional development assistance to a more comprehensive strategy combining
infrastructure support, maritime security, and diplomatic engagement. Special attention is given
to the impact of the Chinа factor and ...
Added: October 26, 2026
Grishina D., Шугаева А. А., Проблемы Дальнего Востока 2026 № 5 С. 126–139
The beginning of the civilian rule of the fifth President of the Republic of Korea, Chun Doo-hwan (1980–1988), who initially came to power through a coup d'état in late 1979, was marked by protests and acts of civil disobedience in the city of Gwangju in May 1980, which were violently suppressed by the regular South ...
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Kapustin B., М.: Издательство Института Гайдара, 2026.
Что есть политический реализм: фиксация фактов или постижение скрытых тенденций? В утопия - несбыточная мечта или призыв, способный преобразить мир? Наконец, есть ли в политике место для морали? Книга отвечает на эти вопросы через призму наследия Макиавелли. Автор показывает его не советником государей, а моралистом, утопистом и "народным трибуном". Диалог с таким Макиавелли позволяет автору ...
Added: October 23, 2026
Sevastianov S., Милькова А. А., Ойкумена. Регионоведческие исследования 2026 Т. 20 № 2 С. 123–133
This article aims to classify and characterize problematic narratives used in the official foreign policy discourse
of Chinese President Xi Jinping to justify his foreign policy, respond to international challenges, and strengthen
the country’s position on the international stage. Using content analysis, the authors identify eight of the most frequently occurring problematic narratives in this discourse.
Based on empirical ...
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Pobedonostsev A., Third World Quarterly 2026 P. 1–20
Venezuela is widely regarded as one of the most politically divided nations in Latin America. However, the mechanisms through which political polarisation facilitated the emergence of authoritarian rule under Hugo Chávez and later Nicolás Maduro remain insufficiently specified. This article develops an account of polarisation-driven autocratisation in Venezuela and examines how elite and mass polarisation ...
Added: October 21, 2026
Soboleva E., Third World Quarterly 2026
This paper analyses China’s strategic narrative on refugee migration. Through a qualitative analysis of 54 statements delivered by Chinese diplomats at the United Nations between 2000 and 2024, it identifies core narrative elements, such as problem definition, causal attribution, actor positioning and proposed solutions, and connections between them. The findings show that China problematises refugee ...
Added: October 19, 2026
Коцур Г. В., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Международные отношения 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 167–188
Environmental issues and green ideology have become an increasingly significant factor of
international relations in recent decades. Many researchers tend to focus on the ethical side of
environmentalism, paying little attention to its aesthetic component. It is possible to fill this
epistemic lacuna with the help of recent aesthetic and visual turn in IR. Applying the concept
of “scopic ...
Added: October 18, 2026
Baklanov A., Imamkulieva E., Kuliyeva N. et al., Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
Работа содержит раздел об истории развития концепции нового международного экономического порядка (НМЭП) и конкретных усилий, которые предпринимались развивающимися и другими странами, в том числе по линии ООН, с целью изменения неоколониалистского характера торгово-экономических связей стран Севера и Юга. Анализируются ответные меры, которые привели на рубеже 90-х гг, к выхолащиванию антиколониалистского содержания концепции НМЭП. Содержатся конкретные ...
Added: October 16, 2026
Baklanov A., Международная жизнь 2026 № 8 С. 28–35
This article analyzes the effectiveness of diplomats and assesses their performance. In this context, it presents data on proven methods for training international affairs specialists for work in Eastern countries. It also provides a specific account of the diplomatic career of one of the most successful Soviet and Russian diplomats, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary P.S. ...
Added: October 16, 2026
Давранова С. Б., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2026 Т. 20 № 3 С. 118–127
This article examines the legal grounds for anti-Russian trade sanctions. The main focus is on comparing the territorial trade sanctions against Crimea with the main anti-Russian trade sanctions. The results of the analysis show that, firstly, the EU’s sanctions policy, contrary to its statements to the contrary, affects humanitarian trade in both the narrow and ...
Added: October 16, 2026
Костромин В. В., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2026 Т. 20 № 3 С. 37–47
The "sweep effect", the most well-known consequence of the multiple non-transferable vote system, is inconsistent. This may be related to the broad voting opportunities provided by the electoral system, which facilitate the formation of diverse voting strategies. In this study, these strategies are classified based on the prevailing models of candidate selection by voters and ...
Added: October 14, 2026
Sarkisyan N., Russian Politics 2022 Vol. 7 No. 4 P. 581–608
This article explores the role of the term “tolerance” in Russian presidential discourse, 2000-2020. The word became de-politicized (used equally in liberal and in conservative contexts), functioning as a buzzword and as a symbol. As a buzzword, it stood “for all good things” and denoted the positive dynamics in Russia’s nationalities and foreign policies; as ...
Added: October 14, 2026
Саркисян Н. М., Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity 2023 Vol. 51 No. 2 P. 425–445
In 2006, a “tolerance policy” was launched in St. Petersburg to address the growing xenophobia and the need to integrate labor migrants. Applying a bottom–up perspective, this study finds that this policy was symbolic – aimed at changing public attitudes, not at providing material outcomes. The direct implementers (the street-level bureaucracy), operating under governmental constraints, ...
Added: October 14, 2026
Ataeva A., Sanina A., Styrin E. M. et al., Вестник международных организаций: образование, наука, новая экономика 2026 Т. 21 № 3 Статья 7
The article is devoted to the analysis of international indicator models used as proxy
measures of a state’s institutional characteristics and the quality of its governance
environment, as well as to the development of a methodology for their comparative
evaluation in terms of methodological robustness and analytical applicability. Based on a
systemic analysis of 23 international and regional indices ...
Added: October 14, 2026
Stepanov S., Вестник гражданского права 2026 Т. 26 № 4 С. 7–78
This article examines the prospects of using Russian tort law to compensate for harm caused by climate change. Drawing on a comparative analysis of case law from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, it demonstrates that climate-related disputes are increasingly falling within the scope of tort law. Particular attention is paid to the transformation ...
Added: October 13, 2026
Chistikov M., Makarov I. A., Вестник международных организаций: образование, наука, новая экономика 2026 Т. 21 № 3
As the negative socio-economic consequences of climate change increase, attention to adaptation issues is growing worldwide. Currently, most of the adaptation measures are reactive and not very large-scale. The more ambitious approach to climate change adaptation is evident in the idea of "transformational adaptation," which is gaining growing interest in both academic discussions and international ...
Added: October 8, 2026