In the context of an open letter written by international NGOs to President Biden urging him to prioritize addressing climate change and to not engage in a new Cold War against China, Hartmut Marhold examines the two paradigms that inform understanding of international relations in the 20th and early 21st century:. Underlining that the sustainable development concepts fail to include the East-West divide, while otherwise succeeding at relating humans against humans and humans against the planet interpretations, he closes by stressing that climate change now plays a decisive role in international relations.
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