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One Asian country exhibits Land and water: Diamond, Collapse, 362–65. Hectares: Moyo, Winner Take All, 29. Famine: Dik?tter, Mao’s Great Famine; Yang, Calamity and Reform, 21–42.

In twenty-first-century China As during the drought of 2010: Sternberg, “Chinese Drought,” 8. Sensitivity: Ziegler, Betting on Famine, 41.

Facing some future crisis Sudan: Reeves, Dying, 3. Chinese involvement: Doriye, “Next stage,” 25; King, “Factoring Environmental Security,” 151. See also Zafar, “Growing Relationship,” 119.

China also faces Tropical regions and water cycle: Stern, Economics of Climate Change, 70, 74. Water shortages: Sullivan, “National Security,” 15–16. General crisis by 2050, current shortages, riots: Solomon, Water, 368, 370, 371. China: King, “Factoring Environmental Security,” 104; Moyo, Winner Take All, 41; Stern, Economics of Climate Change, 78; Solomon, Water, 440.

Less peaceful approaches to the problem Russia: Blank, “Dead End”; Kaczmarski, “Domestic Sources”; Lotspeich, “Economic Integration.” Test case of relations: Eder, China-Russia, 130–131.

Yet as climate change In 2007, the number of Chinese in low-elevation coastal zones was estimated at 11 percent of the population; if that percentage held in 2015 the figure would be about 149 million. The entire population of Russia is about 145 million. McGranahan, Balk, and Anderson, “Rising Tide,” 26.

None of these Chinese Voluntary targets: New York Times, 11 November 2014.

Russian governments of the early On Russian revenue from hydrocarbons: Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune, 1, 5.

In a new Russian colonialism, For maps see the newspaper Novorossiia, for example 1 August 2014.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia See Riabov and Riabova, “Decline of Gayropa?” For a chronicle of Russian policy to Ukraine in 2013 and 2014, see my forty or so articles in English, French, and German as collected on timothysnyder.org or in Ukrainian or Russian translation in the editions listed in the bibliography.

As Russia demonstrated I discussed this connection in several of the publications cited above, as well as in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 15 December 2014. Many of the fundamental connections were drawn by Anton Shekhovtsov in a series of important commentaries.

All forms of counterglobal Poverty: Xenopoulos, “Scenarios,” 1562. Cf. Gerlach, Extremely Violent Societies, 263. Egypt and Libya: King, “Factoring Environmental Security,” 99, 100, 117, 359; Klare, “Climate Change Battlefields,” 358–59. Drought: Femia, “Climate Change,” 31. ISIS and water: New York Times, 14 October 2014.

The ambivalence of interwar Polish Spector, Evangelicals and Israel, 187–88; Clark, Allies for Armageddon, 5, 151, 170; Weber, On the Road to Armageddon, 191. On attitudes towards climate change: Smith and Leiserowitz, “American Evangelicals,” 4; and Anthony Leiserowitz, personal communication, 26 August 2013.

As prime minister of Israel Weber, On the Road to Armageddon, 148; Clark, Allies for Armageddon, 190, 229.

Americans, when they think For wartime antisemitism, see Abzug, America Views the Holocaust, 87–92, 99–103, and passim. Mauthausen trial: Jardim, Mauthausen Trial, 123, 144, 189, 210. Bergen-Belsen: Damplo, “Prosecuting,” 24. For a balanced assessment of Roosevelt, see Breitman and Lichtman, FDR, 315–30.

A misunderstanding about One can infer from Collier’s Bottom Billion, especially at 126, that military intervention makes more sense after a state has failed than with the goal of making a state fail.

Mass killings generally Regime changes and civil wars: Goldsmith and Semenovich, “Political Instability,” 10.

The dominant stereotype Cf. Arendt, Origins, 310. In Bloodlands, I discuss all of these policies.

On the Left, the dominant Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialektik der Aufkl?rung, especially 212, 217; quotations at 1, 15. See also Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason, 176–77. The same mistake in a less radical formulation can be found in Neumann’s reports to the OSS: Secret Reports, 28, 30. See Habermas, Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne, 135, 138; Ko?akowski, Main Currents, 347; Zehnpfennig, Hitlers Mein Kampf, 129.

On the Right, the dominant See the longer discussion in Judt and Snyder, Thinking.

The ideal capitalism Rand: Burns, Goddess, 175.

As all economists know See generally Powell, Inquisition, 63, 98, and passim; Oreskes and Conway, Merchants of Doubt, 169–215; Economist, 15 February 2012; Tollefson, “Sceptic,” 441. In 2011, the fossil fuel industry spent about $300 million to muddy the waters: Silver, Signal, 380. See Farley, “Petroleum and Propaganda,” 40–49. See also Union of Concerned Scientists, “Got Science?,” 18 October 2012; and Weart, “Denial,” 46, 48. Capitalism certainly registers the data of climate change. Insurance companies keep precise records of storms as they restrict the availability of flood insurance. Parker, Global Crisis, 691–92. The error of the libertarian Right is echoed, in a certain way, by some members of the Christian Right. Creationists oppose the theories of Darwin, as amplified by generations of scientists, with respect to nonhuman animals, instead applying the term “science” to their static portrait of a natural order created by God. This is one more conflation of science and politics. Meanwhile, in their support of unrestricted capitalism, many creationists apply Social Darwinian concepts to their fellow human beings. Humans have the right to dominate nature, and more competitive humans have the right to dominate less competitive ones. This is yet another merger of science and politics.