Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Book

Part I Last Call for Illusions

1 Who Killed Ekaru Loruman? 3

2 Military Soothsayers 13

3 War for a Small Planet: Adaptation As Counterinsurgency 21

Part II Africa

4 Geopolitics of a Cattle Raid 39

5 Monsoons and Tipping Points 55

6 The Rise and Fall of East African States 67

7 Somali Apocalypse 79

8 Theorizing Failed States 87

Part III Asia

9 Drugs, Drought, and Jihad: Environmental History of the Afghanistan War 97

10 Kyrgyzstan's Little Climate War 113

11 India and Pakistan: Glaciers, Rivers, and Unfinished Business 123

12 India's Drought Rebels 133

Part IV Latin America

13 Rio's Agony: From Extreme Weather to "Planet of Slums" 157

14 Golgotha Mexicana: Climate Refugees, Free Trade, and the War Next Door 179

15 American Walls and Demagogues 207

16 Implications and Possibilities 225

Acknowledgments 243

Notes 245

Index 283