International/inter-carbonic relations

If international relations can be theorised as ‘inter-textual’, then why not also – or indeed better ‘inter-carbonic’? For, only is the modern history of carbon to a large degree international; in addition, many key historical junctures and defining features politics are grounded or, more precisely, various socio-ecological practices processes through which has been exploited deposited, mobilised represented, recycled transformed. In what follows I seek make this case, arguing that have mutually constitutive ever since dawn modernity 1492, they will inevitably remain so well into future, global economy’s dependence on fossil continues unabated planet inexorably warms. Will climate change generate widespread conflict, even civilisational collapse? How contemporary power dynamics limiting responses change? And how, conversely, might 21st-century world order transformed by decarbonisation? Building research political ecology, argue dialectical sensitivity ‘inter-carbonic relations’ required properly answer these questions. Scholars students International Relations (IR), suggest, need approach positioning element C at very centre their analyses.