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Wilson, G (2020) Climate Change as a "Threat to the Peace": Responding to Climate Change Through the UN Collective Security System. International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 12 (3). pp. 33-44. ISSN 1835-7156
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Abstract
The UN Security Council's approach to collective security has been ever evolving since the time of the organization's creation. While historically collective security was considered to concern the protection of states from external military attack, the Council has used its power to determine the existence of 'threats to the peace' under Article 39 of the UN Charter to bring a broad range of situations and phenomena of international concern within its remit. Refugee flows, infectious epidemics, and challenges to democracy are just some of the threats to the peace identified by the Council in the post-Cold War era. This paper is concerned with the Council's approach to climate change as a "threat to the peace." Drawing upon Council debates and resolutions, it considers the manner in which climate changes and its effects have been conceptualized in such terms, and assesses the relationship between climate change and other recognized threats to the peace. It is demonstrated that considerable progress has been made in elevating climate change as an issue of the utmost international concern at the UN level, yet tensions between the foreign and domestic policy priorities of powerful states continue to hinder more proactive responses on the Council's part.
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| Additional Information: | Wilson, Gary. 2020. "Climate Change as a “Threat to the Peace”: Responding to Climate Change through the UN Collective Security System." The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses 12 (3): 33-44. doi:10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/v12i03/33-44. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0501 Ecological Applications; 0502 Environmental Science and Management; 1205 Urban and Regional Planning |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences K Law > K Law (General) |
| Divisions: | Law |
| Publisher: | Common Ground Research Networks |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2024 09:56 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2024 10:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/v12i03/33-44 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22475 |
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