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Trends and Triggers Redux: Climate Change, Rainfall, and Interstate Conflict
Colleen Devlin and Cullen Hendrix’s article in Political Geography explores precipitation patterns and interstate conflict. They find that “long-run variability in precipitation and lower mean levels of precipitation in dyads are associated with the outbreak of militarized interstate disputes” and that “joint precipitation scarcity – defined as both countries experiencing below mean rainfall in the same year – has a conflict-dampening effect.” Read the full article here.