From the <i>Twenty Years’ Crisis</i> to the climate crisis: Reconsidering Carr’s thoughts on nationalism and global reform

Karkour, Haro L

doi:10.1177/17550882231168906

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“…While other actors, such as social movements also act at the supranational level, national actors remain the most salient decision-makers. More and more people look for effective climate protection at the nation-state level (Karkour, 2023). Firstly, they have doubts about the ineffective actions taken so far at the international level.…”

Section: Nationalism As a Real Force In Defence Of The Climate And Th...mentioning

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Conceptualising energy nationalism in the context of climate change: framework and review

Żuk,

Conversi,

Żuk

2024

Front. Energy Res.

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This article argues that the more energy policies are circumscribed within the borders of individual nation states, the more difficult it will be to implement the climate action on a global scale. The authors shed light on the relationship between nationalism and the simultaneous challenges of environmental protection, energy transition and climate change mitigation. Based on the review of various publications referring to nationalism in the context of energy policy and energy transition, the authors conceptualise this notion. Energy nationalism is defined here as any political decision, economic action and ideological justifications used to circumscribe energy policy within the nation state and subordinate it to “national interests,” “national security” and the “protection of national sovereignty.” Energy nationalism should be distinguished from both economic nationalism and resource nationalism, yet they are part of a continuum, in which economic considerations are upheld in the pursuit of strict national “interests” and, therefore, of the ruling elites in each nation state. The article explores the differences and mutual interconnections between the three. It finally explains why the notion of energy nationalism may better render the ongoing conflict between resource-focused elites and the international community–particularly in the context of the current climate emergency.

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Section: Nationalism As a Real Force In Defence Of The Climate And Th...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising energy nationalism in the context of climate change: framework and review

Żuk,

Conversi,

Żuk

2024

Front. Energy Res.

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“…The accords that were reached have been poorly implemented due to a lack of adequate oversight mechanisms and penalties in cases of noncompliance. Geopolitics and nationalism have been leading most countries with large fossil fuel resources to satisfy economic self-interests in the short term from their exploration instead of contributing to the global energy transition [116]. Moreover, fossil fuels are still an important geostrategic economic commodity.…”

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The Six Critical Determinants That May Act as Human Sustainability Boundaries on Climate Change Action

Santos,

O’Riordan,

Rocha de Sousa

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Significant advances have been achieved in multilateral negotiations regarding human development and environmental safeguarding since the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference. There is much greater global awareness and action towards sustainability. However, sustainability has persistently been sidelined, leading to the identification and definition of a transgressed “safe and just space for humanity”. Here we develop a new evolutionary approach and methodology to explain the reasons why sustainability continues to be a difficult challenge for contemporary societies to adopt. We argue that these originate in six major biological, social, psychological, political, and cultural critical determinants that resulted from human biologic and cultural evolution. Although they are essential for human prosperity and wellbeing, these characteristics may also act as human sustainability boundaries. It is possible to reduce the inhibiting power of each critical determinant in the pathways to sustainability, a vital process that we term softening. Identifying, knowing, and softening these impediments is a necessary first step to achieving sustainability through greater self-knowledge and transformational processes. The application of the present methodology is restricted here to the climate change challenge. We examine the ways in which each human sustainability boundary is capable of obstructing climate action and offer possible ways to soften its hardness.

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Nation‐states in a Prisoner's Dilemma with climate change: Applying Edith Stein's theory of the state

Kekki

2024

Nations and Nationalism

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To get a better picture of the relation between nationalism and global environmental problems within the state‐dominated situation, I present the inherent logic of international environmental politics as a version of the famous Prisoner's Dilemma. I argue that the same contingent bonds that relate the members of nations to their respective nation‐states are part of the contemporary difficulty of actually working together for the common good on the international level by creating exclusive feelings of solidarity—the ‘Prisoners’ of the Dilemma. To reveal the experiential background of nation‐states in this situation, I rephrase and apply Edith Stein's theory of the state as a collective entity. Stein was an inter‐war political philosopher who is now mainly read within religious studies and philosophy of mind. As my argument implies, her work also has relevance for further affect nationalism studies.

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From the Twenty Years’ Crisis to the climate crisis: Reconsidering Carr’s thoughts on nationalism and global reform

Cited by 3 publications

References 61 publications

Conceptualising energy nationalism in the context of climate change: framework and review

Conceptualising energy nationalism in the context of climate change: framework and review

The Six Critical Determinants That May Act as Human Sustainability Boundaries on Climate Change Action

Nation‐states in a Prisoner's Dilemma with climate change: Applying Edith Stein's theory of the state

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