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The Impact of Environmental Changes on the Geopolitical Discourses

This paper is focused on the impact that environmental changes, caused by climate change, pollution and population growth, have on the changes that occur in geopolitical discourses of contemporary geopolitics. These changes are visible and significant, in both the post-modern geopolitics and the discourses that oppose the dominance of geopolitical discourses of modern or postmodern geopolitics. A key difference is visible, between the traditional "defensive" exclusivist approach to security-related environment and the inclusive approach, which calls for a change in the perception of the environment and the problems associated with the change in it. The first approach treats the environment as another security challenge and puts an emphasis on the national security, while the second approach to the environment and the changes occurring in it does not consider environment to be a security threat, but rather an opportunity for changes in priorities and functioning of society. This approach emphasizes global security, rather than national security because the latter is not feasible in the context of environmental and climate change. Amounting and identifying the main features of geopolitical discourse is usually related to the names of individual authors belonging to the field of geopolitics of global environment such as, among others, T. Homer-Dixon, R.D. Kaplan, S. Dalby and M. Renner.

Environmental Changes; Climate Change; Pollution; Geopolitics of (Global) Environment;

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