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What is Environmental Geopolitics? A Guide to the 21st Century’s Most Critical Foreign Policy Challenge
What is Environmental Geopolitics? A Guide to the 21st Century’s Most Critical Foreign Policy Challenge

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What is Environmental Geopolitics? A Guide to the 21st Century’s Most Critical Foreign Policy Challenge

Environmental geopolitics studies how ecological change — resource scarcity, climate disruption, biodiversity collapse — reshapes state behaviour. It is not a niche field. It is the lens through which the most consequential foreign policy decisions of this century will be made.

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