RELEVANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: A CRITIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES

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1. Realist View of Environmental Security: Primacy on State 2. Sovereignty and National Security: An Environmental Perspective 3. A Critique of Realistic Approach 4. Critique of Liberalism 5. Ecologicalising Emancipatory Mission 6. Revisiting Globalist Criticism 7. A Critique of Orthodox Realism 8. Reformist Criticism of Environmental Security Revisited 8. Comprehensive Security 9. Critical Security Studies 10. Conclusions

RELEVANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: A CRITIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES

Author: Narottam Gaan

DOI Link: DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2005v26n2a2

ABSTRACT

National security understood in realist and conventional wisdom needs 10 be redefined in view of the disastrous transformation and changes in the environment sector of the planet. The trend towards disassociating security and nation state now clearly visible in world politics has been strong enough to avoid the dangers of falling down the slippery slope toward a parochial statism. The debate over whether environmental security assumes the status of national security is primarily confined to the Westphalia logic and wisdom within hegemonic, homogenization and linearity logic typical of world power structure and arrangement presided over by the US. Environmental security refuting the very basis of realist framework of security and its logic does not acquiesce in statist frame of security based on duality, division between rich and poor, nature and the universe, and the present and future generations. At the confluence of the morally and ethically required nuances of sustainable development, economic rethinking, new planetary principles and new vision of and approach to life in place of the western profligate life style stands the environmental security.

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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