War and Ecology by Adrien Estve - 9781035359097

War and EcologyDefense, Climate Change and Environmental Impact\nAuthor(s): Adrien Estve\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781035359097, 978-1035359097\nSynopsis\nThe book examines the connections between energy, the environment, climate change and security from a military perspective and in the context of ongoing international conflicts. Adrien Estve compares the cases of France and the United States, two nuclear powers and two of the largest militaries in the world, to understand the security aspects of global ecological upheavals and the energy transition.\nDrawing on insights from political science, international relations, history and philosophy, Estve puts forward an innovative historical perspective on the environmental practices and discourses of the military. Chapters explore how, over the last decades, the civilian and military heads of defense organizations have been issuing a series o.