Tropic of Chaos (47 page)

war promotion and

Military-industrial complex, United States

Mill, John Stuart

Miller, Henry

Mitigation (climate change)

agroforestry

Bolivian example

capitalism and

China

climate-justice organizations

definition/description

economic redistribution and

emissions reductions

environmental crisis vs.

EU

money availability

political adaptation with

political will and

procurement/marketing clean technology

sanitation movement (1830s) comparison

situation without

technology and

trees and

UN Development Program's Global Environmental Facility grants

urgency

US possibilities for

Mittal, Anuradha

Mkutu, Kennedy Agade

Mobutu, Sese Seko

Mont, Rios

Morales, Evo

Mosse, David

Mota, Antonio Braga

Muhindi, James

Museveni, Yoweri

Muslim League

Mutesa, Sir Edward

Nagl, John A.

Naidu, N. Chandrababu

Napolitano, Janet

Nation
(Kenyan daily)

Native Americans

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Nelson, Donald R.

Nicaragua

Nicaraguan Contras

Nixon, Richard

North, Oliver

Obama, Barack

Obete, Milton

Oliveira, Rodrigo

Omarov, Nur

Oppenheimer, Andres

O'Reilly, Bill

Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power
(Wittfogel)

Otunbayeva, Roza

Pakistan

Afghanistan relationship

Bangladesh and

drone attacks

Durand Line and

East Pakistan and

floods (2010)

US/Saudi Arabia aid

use of militant Islamists

See also
India-Pakistan conflicts

Parameters
(journal)

Pasha, Enver

Passing of the Great Race
(Grant)

Peace by Revolution
(Tannenbaum)

Penglase, Ben

Pilling, Donald

Placido, Anthony

Podesta, John

Pokot

cattle importance

cattle raids

description

selling stolen cattle

territory

Turkana enmity history

Uganda and

See also
East African cattle raids

Political domination forms

“Politics As a Vocation” (Weber)

Pollution

Koch Industries

toxic red tide and

Population Bomb, The
(Erlich)

Portal, Sir Gerald

Portillo, José Lopez

Portillo, Lordes

Poverty, violence, climate change convergence.
See
Catastrophic convergence

Prada, Raul

Prison companies (private)

Prueher, Joseph

Punjab

Quadrennial Defense Review (US/2010)

Rahman, Atiq

Ramesh, Jairam

Ramírez, José

Ramírez, Noé

RAND corporation

Randall, Doug

Rao, N. T. Rama

Rao, Varavara

Rashid, Ahmed

Reagan, Ronald

Red tide algae blooms

Refugees

Bangladesh

estimates on future numbers

military implications and

See also
Immigration/climate change

Relative deprivation and poverty

Renner, Michael

Resource scarcity

links with violence/state policy

See also specific locations
;
specific resources

Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), Columbia

Revolutionary United Front, Sierra Leone

Rhodes, Cecil

Riam Riam (NGO)

Richardson, Bill

Rivera, Brooklyn

Roba, Adanoo

Romero, José

Ross, Andrew

Rostow, Walt W.

Rousseff, Dilma Vana

Saeed, Hafiz Muhammad

Salinas, Carlos

Sama, Linga Reddy

Samatar, Ahmed I.

Sandino, Augusto

Sanitation movement (1830s)

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Savage (Weiner), Mike

Savimbi, Joseph

Schmitt, Carl

Schwartz, Peter

Sea level rise

estimates on

estimates on migration with

military implications and

Pacific Island nations

polar ice melting

Security-industrial complex

Selassie, Haile

Senorita Extraviada
(Portillo)

Severin, Jay

Shambary and water resources

Siegel, Kassie

Simbas

Singh, Manmohan

Sioux

Sitting Bull

Small Arms Survey

Small wars

historical phases of

ideologically-motivated wars

imperialism and

post-ideological phase

United Nations statistics on

See also
Banana wars; Counterinsurgency;
specific wars

Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
(Caldwell)

Solon, Pablo

Somalia

1993 raid/rescue mission

Cold War competition

collapse

economic liberalization

as failed state

fragmentation of

independence

Ogaden War and

Siad Barre regime

US military/Ogaden War

weapons and

Western Somalia Liberation Front

See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor

South Sudan

Soviet Union

Afghanistan and

Horn of Africa socialist alliance and

See also
Cold War

Special Forces, US military

Stages of Economic Growth, The: A Non-Communist Manifesto
(Rostow)

Stanley, Henry Morton

“State Making and War Making As Organized Crime” (Tilly)

State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
(Buchanan)

Steele, James

Sterba, James

Sudan

small-firearms proliferation

See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor

Suhrawardy, Hussain

Sullivan, Gordon

Summer Olympics (Mexico/1968)

Summerfield, Derek

Swinton, Sir Ernest

Tajikistan

See also
Central Asian new states

Taliban

about

Afghanistan and

allies

cash offered to fighters

emergence

Pakistan's use of

Tannenbaum, Frank

Tanzania

Teller, Edward

Thatcher, Margaret

Thorner, Alice

Tilly, Charles

Tipping points

climate change

species populations and

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Tokar, Brian

Toro, Juan Fernando

Torres-Flores, Adriana

Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

Tropic of Capricorn
(Miller)

description

Tuleev, Nariman

Turkana

cattle importance

drought effects

East African cattle raids

Ekaru Loruman's murder

firearms sources

location/territory

Lodwar

Pokot enmity history

violence/small firearms

See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor; East African cattle raids

Turkmenistan

See also
Central Asian new states

Uganda

1980s drought/famine

British colonialism

British railway in

child soldiers

corruption beginnings

decolonization/independence

as failed state

firearms to Turkana/Kenya

former kingdom of

gun looting/use

Karamoja

Lord's Resistance Army

See also
Africa's pastoralist corridor

Uganda under Amin

American expatriates and

Cold War competition and

economy and

kleptocracy/violence

South Asians in Uganda

Tanzania threats/invasion

US economic sanctions against

United Nations

climate-related emergencies

Development Program's Global Environmental Facility grants

human-development index of well-being

Office on Drugs and Crime

United States

authoritarianism and

Clean Air Act

climate legislation and

coal-fueled power plants and

economic decline (1970s–1980s)

Environmental Protection Agency/climate change mitigation

“fuel switching,”

lack of climate change mitigation

military-industrial complex

Native Americans and

natural gas/drilling for

New Deal

Tea Party

See also
Cold War; Military and security/ climate change;
specific individuals

United States/immigration

American media and

anti-immigrant policies effects on

Arizona's anti-immigration law/policies

arrest quotas/raids

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

deportations

detention network/abuse

Mexico's climate change/economics and

nationalism

racism/xenophobia and

state actions

“state of emergency/exception” and

whole border policing

See also
US-Mexico border

US Agency for International Development

US-Mexico border

US infrastructure/resources at

US militarization

Uzbekistan

See also
Central Asian new states

Vakulabharanam, Vamsi

Venezuela and oil

Victoria, Queen

Vidal, John

Vietnam War

carpet bombing

civilian targets

Laos mountain tribes and

Special Forces

Strategic Hamlet Program

US defeat and

violence overview

Violence

causality

See also
Catastrophic convergence;
specific locations

Volcker, Paul

Waithaka, Casper

Waldman, Matt

Waleed, Hafiz Khalid

Waleh, Abdul Haq

Walker, Brenda

War

civilian casualties trends

cultivating violent proxies

US military capacity and

victim solidarity and

See also
Counterinsurgency; Small wars;
specific wars

Water resources

aid and

isolation effects

military implications

rainfall levels-conflict link

Shambary's lack of violence

See also
East African cattle raids;
specific locations

Weber, Max

Weisbrot, Mark

Wiener, Tim

Wilders, Geert

Witsenburg, Karen

Wittfogel, Karl

Wood, Lowell

Woolsey, James

World Bank

climate change study

Green Revolution

harmful effects of

India-Pakistan conflict and

Mexico's poverty trend

World War I,

World War II

civilian casualties

economy and

victim solidarity and

Wurzelbacher, Sam (Joe the Plumber)

Yom Kippur War results

Young, Andrew

Zahir Shah, Mohammed (king/reign)

Zia, Muhammed ul-Huq

Zinni, Anthony

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