The Shortcomings of Rationalist claims: Carbon Taxation and Political-Economy Approaches to Climate Change
As the devastating impacts of climate change continue to loom across the world, it comes to a surprise then why responses by nation-states have been too slow and lacking for a supposed destructive, debilitating and critical-to-survival threat. This then negates the rationalist perspectives of the st...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Islamic World and Politics |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jiwp/article/view/4524 |
| Summary: | As the devastating impacts of climate change continue to loom across the world, it comes to a surprise then why responses by nation-states have been too slow and lacking for a supposed destructive, debilitating and critical-to-survival threat. This then negates the rationalist perspectives of the states which assume that playing games of survival are what nation-states do on a day-to-day basis. To that end, this paper proposes an alternative explanation, which uses a political-economy approach to conclude disconnect between the zero-sum understandings of political-security perspectives within a liberal-capitalistic world order that thrives of positive-sum narratives. This paper shall exclusively use the case of a possible universal carbon taxation and the typologies thereof to conclude how a political-economy approach should be appropriate for a political-security end with regards to climate change. |
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| ISSN: | 2614-0535 2655-1330 |