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The Impact Of Climate Change On Security In The Middle East: A Review Of The Literature, Yara El-Khatib
The Impact Of Climate Change On Security In The Middle East: A Review Of The Literature, Yara El-Khatib
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
The Middle East, which is already plagued by a series of security threats–such as terrorism, religious conflict, political instability, and more–is also an increasingly water-scarce and climate-vulnerable region. In this review, I examine the most recent and relevant literature on the debate of: how will, and how has climate change affected security in the Middle East? I examine five articles and one book that tackle this question, and I organize these sources based on the extent to which they argue that climate change is a determinant of insecurity in the region. While a few authors argue that climate change has …