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Tropic of Chaos_ Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence - Christian Parenti [147]

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IMF and

nationalization of industries

protests over gas industry

Boortz, Neal

Bourgeois, Philippe

Bowden, Charles

Braga, Marcio Romero de Araujo

Brasil: Nunca Mais

Brazil

1930s Estado Novo

1983 protests

agroforestry

Bolsa Família

Cold War violence and

“crisis of violence” causes

debt

debt payoff

economy (1930s-1960s)

Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)

hyperinflation

import-substitution industrialization (ISI)

inequality

land reform and

military dictatorship

Movimento dos Trabalhadore Rurais Sem Terra (MST)

neoliberalism/effects

oil prices and

rolling back neoliberalism

São Paulo

tariffs

urban guerrillas

urbanization

Brazil, Rio

extreme weather

inequality

murder rate

Brazil, Rio/favelas

Comando Vermelho (CV) gang

description

gangs running

migration from countryside and

“pacification” program

police “management”/repression

poverty increase and

relative deprivation and

vigilantes and

violence

Brazil/climate change

agricultural adaptation

burning/monocropping

cities

disease and

ITCZ

migration from countryside

Nordeste aid

Nordeste extreme weather/effects

predictions

St. Luzia’s Day ritual

Brenner, Robert

Brewer, Jan

Buchanan, Pat

Butler, Smedley

Calderón, Felipe

Caldwell, Charles

Campbell, Kurt

Cancún climate meeting/agreement

Capitalism

1970s saturation

catastrophic convergence and

“golden age” of

imperialism and

uneven development

See also specific countries

Caravan newspaper

Cárdenas, Lazaro

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

Caritas (Catholic NGO)

Carter, Jimmy

Carvalha, Claudio

Castañeda, Jorge

Castro, Fidel

Catastrophic convergence

Cold War militarism and

counterinsurgency

geography of

neoliberal capitalism and

overview

responses

violent conflict risks

See also specific locations

Central Asian new states

description

Fergana Valley

kleptocracy and

neoliberalism and

radical Islam and

violence

Cherokee

Cholera

Churchill, Winston

Climate change

atmospheric carbon dioxide statistics

Commodity Food Price Index and

environmental crisis causes and

environmental crisis vs.

geography of

greenhouse effect

locked-in effects

permafrost melting and

positive feedback loops

social challenges overview

speed of

statistics overview

tipping points

two degrees Celsius change

US energy economy and

Climate-change denialists

atomic-era physicists

Exxon

fossil fuel industry

IPCC attacks by

Koch brothers/Industries

Clinton, Bill

CNA Corporation report (2007)

COIN. See Counterinsurgency

Cold War

catastrophic convergence and

counterinsurgency legacy

cultivating proxies

Global South instability and

weapons legacy

See also Counterinsurgency; specific countries

Collier, Robert

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976 (Gleijeses)

Conrad, Joseph

Counterinsurgency

banana wars

catastrophic convergence and

Central America

conventional warfare vs.

as “dirty wars,”

early doctrine on

legacy of violence/crime

Native Americans and

operational environment

social fabric destruction with

as “three-block war,”

US conventional military capacity and

war games

See also Small wars; specific wars

Crook, George

Cuba and Africa

Custer, George A.

Da Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula

Da Silva, William

Daud, Mohammed Khan

Defensive Duffers Drift, The (Swinton)

Deforestation

Afghanistan

Africa

Brazil

India

mangroves

Mexico

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Belgian violence

governance/administration and

Kinshasa

Kisangani

kleptocracy

Dermota, Ken

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (Rashid)

Desertification

Diaz, Porfirio

Dobbs, Lou

Douglas, Mary

Drought

predictions for planet

See also specific locations; Water resources

Durand, Mortimer

East Africa

1980s droughts/famine

conflict system components

El Niño

ITCZ

Mount Elgon’s snow pack

Mount Kilimanjaro’s snow pack

Pacific Oceans and weather

responses to water shortages

See also specific locations; specific people

East Africa Company (British)

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