Global Warming and Climate Refugees of 21st Century: A Threat Assessment of Sea Level Rise for The Looming Humanitarian Crisis
Global Warming and Climate Refugees of 21st Century: A Threat Assessment of Sea Level Rise for The Looming Humanitarian Crisis

Author(s): Ismail Utku Canturk
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Global Warming; refugees; 21st Century; humanitarian crisis;
Summary/Abstract: Realism is the International Relations (IR) theory that still has the biggest influence over the discipline and policymaking processes. However, trivializing existential threats to states that have non-military origins causes realism to overlook the connections between national, human and environmental security. Focusing its empirical research on “future climate refugees due to sea level rise”, this work asserts the necessity of an eco-centric paradigm shift in realist IR theory in order to propel global policymaking towards taking climate action. The novel discourse of “planetary realism” is presented as a pathway to increase state resilience during the Anthropocene.

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