Climate Change as Spatial Change

Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge

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ID3948527
AutoresAlan Chong (0000-0002-3889-9598, Centre for Multilateralism Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Páginas1-26
Data de publicação2023-06-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2023.2225055
OpenAlexW4381888002
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas30

Recent escalations in the severity of extreme weather events in Europe and Asia have set the stage for a rethink of international relations as a policy pathway towards dealing with climate change. A rethink of state obligations in international relations requires a refocus towards the social contract undergirding sovereignty and an acceptance that we are into the era of supra-sovereign consequences. Global warming attests to this expansive spatialisation of consequences. This article argues that the State can take two practical steps to cope with climate change: the spatialisation of obligations to citizens to protect them against extreme weather; and the need for officials and citizenry to accept that the sovereign state owes moral obligations to complex chains of culpability across geographical borders that transcend sovereignty itself

Climate change · Culpability · Expansive · International law · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental law and policy · Law