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113698
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2012.
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China's growing economic, political, and cultural power is an important global issue; Chinese people are increasingly interested in thinking about their country's future as a world power. This article introduces the special issue 'China's futures - and the world's future' by discussing how futurology works in China. It argues that Chinese futures studies exhibit two general trends: (1) a shift from locating the future outside China to see China itself as the future, and (2) a shift from officials centrally planning the future to many different people dreaming about many different futures. The battle for the future thus is not necessarily between China and the West, but also takes place within the People's Republic of China amongst different groups of Chinese intellectuals. This Introduction examines themes that unite the special issue's diverse set of articles, especially the interplay between technical and cultural innovation. Studying the future here is important not because the forecasts are 'true'; more importantly, Chinese discussions of the future can tell us about how people in the PRC interact with their own past-present-future, and how they interact with people in other countries in the present.
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This special issue contains five papers dealing with various aspects of climate change and its relationship to patterns of insurgency and terrorism. This is the first special issue in this journal on a topic that increasingly dominates the media and wider political discussion, though SWI has published some papers previously in this area, most notably one by Marina Malamud in 2018 that usefully categorised climate-change conflicts into four types: 1) those linked to the environment into resource-based conflict; 2) a warfare ecology paradigm referring to non-premeditated change to the environment as a result of military conflict; 3) warfare in which the environment was the target and 4) an insurgency-conflict intersection in which climate change increased the likelihood and frequency of war and conflict.Footnote1 These four categories have helped inform the approach taken in this introduction, especially the last relating to the probable impact of global climate change on insurgencies.
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046323
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New York, Berghahm Books, 2001.
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xvi, 395p.
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9231036467
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 046411 | 303.490905/BIN 046411 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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