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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)
East African cattle raids
cattle importance
climate change and
description
drought and
Ekaru Loruman's murder
Pokot and
Turkana and
weapons
well location and
See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor
East India Company (British)
Echeverría, Luis
Economist, The
El Diario
(Juarez newspaper)
El Niño
1980s droughts/famine
East Africa
Mexico
and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) effects
El Salvador
counterinsurgency and
crime rate
FMLN
Hurricane Ida
US proxy forces
Elbrick, Charles B.
Elikin, Caroline
Eliot, T.S.
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
(Grandin)
Engels, Friedrich
Erlich, Paul
Escobar, Pablo
Ethiopia
Cold War competition
Dergue regime
emperor Haile Selassie
Sahelian drought
Somali (Ogaden) War
See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor
“Ethnoliberation opportunism,”
Failed states
cheap weapons and
conflict resources and
description
as development in reverse
Fund for Peace index/criteria
governance/administration in
modern state vs.
security challenge and
See also specific states
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)
Field Manual, Tactics in Counterinsurgency
Finan, Timothy J.
Fingar, Thomas
Forbes
magazine
Four Days in September
(film)
Four Hundred Against One
(William da Silva)
Fuentes, Amado Carrillo
Fuerth, Leon
Funaro, Dilson
Gabeira, Fernando
Gaddar
Galindo, Celso Nava
Galindo, Jesus Manuel
Garcia, Tanila
Garissa and water resources
Gates, Bill
Gates, Robert
Gaud, William
Geoengineering
Geronimo
Gheen, William
Gibbon, Edward
Gleijeses, Piero
Global South
Cold War militarism and
neoliberal capitalism effects
See also specific locations
Goffman, Erving
Goodell, Jeff
Goodman, Amy
Gore, Al
Grandin, Greg
Grant, Madison
Grant, Richard
Graves, Michael
Great Depression
Green Revolution
Greenpeace
Guardian
Guatemala
1980s Civil War
counterinsurgency and
crime rate
drought
Guerrilla Warfare
(Guevara)
Guevara, Ernesto Che
Guns and Governance
(Mkutu)
Gwyn, Charles
Haider, Jörg
Haile-Mariam, Mengistu
Haiti
Hansen, James
Harvey, David
Heart of Darkness
(Conrad)
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
Hertsgaard, Mark
Herzen, Alexander
Ho Chi Minh
Hofstadter, Richard
Homer-Dixon, Thomas
Honduras
Honeybee populations decline
How to Cool the Planet
(Goodell)
Human Rights Watch/reports
Hurricane Katrina
Immigration
European xenophobia/racism
money for coyotes
restrictive policies on
See also
United States/immigration
Immigration/climate change
ability to migrate and
catastrophic convergence and
desertification and
military implications
predictions
statistics on
See also
Refugees; US-Mexico border
Imperial Policing
(Gwyn)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
(Elikin)
Inconvenient Truth, An
(Gore's documentary)
India
Andhra Pradesh
Telangana
water impoundment/irrigation systems
India/climate change
Bt cotton
catastrophic convergence
corruption with water management
cotton and moneylenders
cotton's water needs
debt and suicides
deforestation
denialists
drought/Naxalite violence
economic neoliberalism and
Green Revolution and
Himalayan ice pack and
militarized Bangladesh border
monsoons and
Muslim Bangladeshi immigrants and
predictions
India/Naxalites (Maoists)
Communist Party of India
conflict/violence
drought/violence
Greyhounds
history
landmines
Naidu attack/aftermath
Operation Polo
situation today
India-Pakistan conflicts
Afghanistan and
Bangladesh and
India-Afghanistan relationship
India's dams and
Indus Water Treaty (1960)
Kashmir and
militant Islamists and
Partition
rivers' control and
water/climate change and
World Bank and
Indus river
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
African desertification predictions
on agroforestry
attack by climate-change denialists
climate change conclusions
emissions reductions recommendations
Fourth Assessment Report
on Latin America
predictions for India
role/activities
sea level rise estimates
speed of climate change and
International Monetary Fund IMF
harmful effects of
restructuring/enforced austerity
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Brazil and
climate change effects on
description
East Africa and
rainfall and
two degrees Celsius change
IPCC.
See
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Iranian revolution
Iraq war
detainees abuse incident
Safwa
militia (Sunni)
Shia death squads
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
ITCZ.
See
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
IV Gen nuclear plants
Jamaat-ut-Dawa (JuD)
James, William
Jordan, Phil
Journal of Applied Meteorology
Kahn, Abdul Racman
Kalenjin tribes
Karmal, Babrak
Karzai, Hamid/government
Kashmir
India-Pakistan conflicts
militant Islamists and
Kazakhstan
See also
Central Asian new states
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
2008 election/effects
agriculture importance
bimodal rainfall
climate change
cooperation with resource scarcity (study)
deforestation
drought
drought effects on herders (study)
drought frequency
economy/rainfall correlation
famine-response system
firearms sources
flooding
internally displaced person (IDP) camps
locust swarms
Meteorological Office data
Mount Kenya's glaciers
small arms proliferation
See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor; East African cattle raids; Turkana
Kenya/British colonialism
about
cattle raiding and
ecological crisis (1890s)
independence
Mau Mau rebellion
pastoralists and
white settlers and
World War II effects
Kenyatta, Jomo
Khan, Imran
Kikuyu tribes/people
Casper Waithaka
East Africa Company and
internally displaced person (IDP) camps
Mau Mau rebellion
pogroms against
status
Kimenye, David
Kjaersgaard, Pia
Koch brothers
Koech, Edward
Kuwayama, Teru
Kyoto Protocol
Kyrgyzstan
catastrophic convergence in
climate change/social breakdown
See also
Central Asian new states
Kyrgyzstan's economy
Asian Jihad and
Cold War proxy fights
drought and
extreme cold
hydroelectric power and
Kyrgyz/Uzbek violence
neoliberalism and
officials illegally selling power
power cuts
Soviet period/Soviet disintegration
utility price hikes/protests
violence/ethnic violence and
La Niña effects
Lal, Murari
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Latin America
climate change effects
crime rates
debt crisis
map
See also specific countries
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
(Nagl)
Le Pen, Jean-Marie
Leopold, King
Lewis, I.M.
Limbaugh, Rush
Limits to Growth
(Club of Rome)
Linera, Álvaro García
Lonsdale, John
Loruman, Ekaru
Lovelock, James
Lyonses, Terence
Maas, Peter
Maatkerimova, Shynar
Mackinnon, Sir William
Maldives
Mandera and water resources
Mao Tse-tung
Maps
Africa
Asia
Latin America
world map
Marabou storks
Marshall, Andrew
Marx, Karl
Massai pastoralists
Mathews, Chris
Mau Mau rebellion
McCabe, Dan
McCaffrey, Barry
McKibben, Bill
Melville, Herman
Merkel, Angela
Methamphetamine
Mexican Revolution
Mexico
divide between laws/enforcement
“failed state” and
protests/killing protestors
repression of Left
serial killer
US immigration policies and
Zapatista National Liberation Army
See also
US-Mexico border
Mexico/climate change
agriculture and
catastrophic convergence
deforestation
desertification
drought/extreme weather
El Niño
fishing effects
migration to United States
Tarahumara
Mexico/drugs
cartels
Columbian drug traffickers and
drugs trafficked
government corruption and
history
Juarez violence/lawlessness
NAFTA and
poverty and
US DEA and
US homeland security and
violence/murders (2009–2010)
Mexico/economy
1920 to early 1980s
Article 27 (constitution) and
clientelism
commodity crisis
corporatist state
corruption
credit system (early 1900s)
default
economic liberalization and
food deficit
foreign debt and
IMF/World Bank and
immigration and
Juarez shack description
land reform
landlessness
NAFTA and
neoliberalism and fish
oil and
Propemex enterprise/effects
Miami Herald
Migration.
See
Immigration
Miles, Nelson
Military and security/climate change
atomic-era physicists and
Australian Defense Forces (ADF)
climate change as threat multiplier
European Council
failing/failed states and
food insecurity
fortress societies and
US planning overview
US reports
war/counterinsurgency plan
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