Rita Floyd

Nov 28, 2024 | nature.com | Stefan Krause |Iseult Lynch |Wouter Buytaert |Rita Floyd |Annabelle Houdret |Uwe Schneidewind | +2 more

Water solutions across different scales can prevent or mitigate conflict if existing obstacles to their implementation can be overcome so that water can act as catalyst to bring people and communities together to co-create collective solutions for peace.

Apr 29, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Rita Floyd |Graham McAleer |Samuel Gregg |Spencer Klavan

The West’s politics orients around the Enlightenment state. Our modern ideal of governance is tolerant, bureaucratic, and egalitarian. We expect the benefits of rule of law, and on this condition, cede to government the monopoly of violence, as Max Weber famously put it. This is our security trade. Most Westerners alive have never experienced true chaos, so the trade has proved its worth.

May 6, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Rita Floyd

In order to negotiate the complexity of a field of study, it is often useful to put labels onto ideas, authors and books. If one did this for the three books under review here, one would place Mark Beeson’s Environmental Anarchy? Security in the 21stCentury, Bristol University Press, 2021 firmly within traditional environmental security studies, whereby this label aims to capture eco-determinism, state-centrism and a focus on violent conflict.