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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
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, The
Nation (Kenyan daily)
Native Americans
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nelson, Donald R.
New York Times
New York Times Magazine
Newsweek
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<
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selling stolen cattle
territory
Turkana enmity history
Uganda and
See also East African cattle raids
Political and Economic Weekly
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
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)
Small Wars Manual
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)
Tropic of Chaos
description
See also specific countries/locations
Tuleev, Nariman
Turkana
cattle importance
drought effects
East African cattle raids
Ekaru Loruman’s murder
firearms sources
location/territory
Lodwar
moran
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
de
tention 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
Washington Post
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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