Ennequin, Anthéa (A.A. 2024/2025) Strategic climate warfare: the rise of eco-weaponization in the Middle East. Tesi di Laurea in European Islam: socio-political issues, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Michele Petrone, pp. 102. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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An introduction to climate change as a new strategic frontier. Climate change as a catalyst for regional vulnerability. The Middle East's climate vulnerability. Environmental stress as a strategic domain: transitioning from vulnerability to eco-weaponization. Goals and contributions of the research. Theoretical and conceptual framework. Defining eco-weaponization and related concepts. Domination, cooperation and the coercive spectrum of environmental power. Gleick's typologies and the constraints of event-based methodologies in eco-weaponization. Historical genealogies of environmental manipulation. Infrastructure, coercion and environmental terrorism. Hydro-hegemony and asymmetric power. Methodology and case selection. Research design: a qualitative, descriptive, theory-building comparative case study. Case study logic and comparative design. Systematic literature review: scope, screening and search strategy. Case selection: criteria and rationale. Data collection and sources. Methodological limitations. The structural causes of eco-weaponization in the Middle East. Centralization of resources and authoritarian rule. Socio-environmental stress and institutional fragility. Hydrological decline and systemic vulnerability. Intra-state versus inter-state conflict dynamics. The water–food–energy nexus and cascading vulnerabilities. Water as geopolitical leverage: empirical patterns of eco-weaponization. Structural eco-dominance in the Tigris–Euphrates basin. Non-state eco-weaponization: ISIS and hydro-insurgency. Water in urban siege warfare: Syria and Yemen. Forced water deprivation in Gaza. Domestic eco-coercion: the Iranian case. Atmospheric manipulation and emerging climate technologies. Cloud seeding, regional weather modification and perceived spillovers. Geoengineering and strategic possibilities. Regulatory and ethical ambiguities. Investigating risk and the contradiction of high-leverage climate technologies. The limits of international law and governance spillovers.

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Bibliografia: pp. 81-100.

Thesis Type:	Master's Degree Thesis
Institution:	Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program:	Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52)
Chair:	European Islam: socio-political issues
Thesis Supervisor:	Petrone, Michele
Thesis Co-Supervisor:	Corrao, Francesca Maria
Academic Year:	2024/2025
Session:	Extraordinary
Deposited by:	Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2026 07:44
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2026 07:44
URI:	https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/46297

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