International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2019, Volume : 9, Issue : 6
First page : ( 288) Last page : ( 307)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Climate change and geo-politics: The crest and trough of tension and political atrophy in the North-East India

Mazumdar Ayush

West Bengal, India

Online published on 27 September, 2019.

Abstract

One of the most volatile regions of India is North-East India due to its secessionist movements and tendencies since India achieved its Independence. Catering to the needs and demands of the several North-East Indian actors and State has thus been a challenging task for any incumbent Central Governments over the years. The recent NRC and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is trying to enlarge and activate the already existent non-active political fissures. This paper seeks to analyse, study and predict possible future outcomes that may happen due to the environmental degradation that is going on within the sub-continent and subsequent Climate Change that would make the geo-political scenario more vulnerable than ever. Hence, this paper tries to link the possible emerging relationship between climate change and politics and how geo-politicscan play the dominant role in shaping it. The Indian nation is more important than any person or institution per se and thus, the foreign policy objectives of our country should adopt dual role in terms of catering to short-term and long-term agendas. Climate Change, Human security etc forms and comes in the domain of the long-term strategy. This paper seeks to identify the various environmental parameters and how it affects the human security domain, political atrophy and extremism in the long-run and tries to provide solutions to it.

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Keywords

Climate change, North-East India, Non-active political fissures and active political fissures, Environmental degradation, Human security, Political atrophy.

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