Fault lines: the new political economy of a warming world

断裂线:全球变暖新政治经济学的轮廓

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2025-11-10

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Contributor(s): Professor Helen Milner | In this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will drive the next phase of climate politics, and what that means for diplomacy, democracy and development. In Fault Lines: The New Political Economy of a Warming World, Alexander F Gazmararian and Helen V Milner show how rising temperatures carve a stark divide around the 35th parallel, separating “damage zones” that stand to lose livelihoods and growth from regions that may even gain. This emerging “climate fault line” is already reshaping public opinion, business lobbying and state strategy, forging new coalitions below the line while stiffening resistance above it. This distributive clash—within countries and across borders—will decide whether decarbonisation accelerates or stalls.
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  • My name is Liam Bison McGraw.

  • I'm an Associate Professor within the Department of Social Policy here at the LSE and the Chair of the Sustainable Social Policy Research Hub as well at the Department of Social Policy.

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  • Tonight's lecture is jointly hosted by the Department of Social Policy as well as the Global School of Sustainability here at the LSE.

  • This part of our ongoing work to understand the political economy of climate change and the future of global governance.

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  • Professor Milner is the BC Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University,

  • and one of the leading scholars of international political economy.

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