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Warfare, National Sovereignty, and the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

R. Paul Shaw
R. Paul Shaw
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Senior Economist, Africa Technical Department, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
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Not only the direct effects of wars harm the planet. Also devastating can be the covert, indirect and often legitimized, actions of nations in securing their national sovereignty — silent-war actions ranging from secret nuclear installations, storage of chemical and biological weapons, militarized economic policy, biases in development expenditures, and ranging up to ethnocide and genocide. New ways of looking at warfare, national sovereignty, and the environment, take on urgency if only because the relationship between war-proneness, nation-building, and national sovereignty, appears to be an enduring one.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Summer 1993, pp. 113 - 121
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1993

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