The Cool Water Effect
This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the West’s emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic root—which we describe as the Cool Water (CW-) Condition: that is, the combination of mostly cool sea...
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| author | Welzel, Christian Kruse, Stefan Brunkert, Lennart Brieger, Steven A. |
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| description | This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the West’s emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic root—which we describe as the Cool Water (CW-) Condition: that is, the combination of mostly cool seasons with steady rain in coastal proximity. What is so special about the CW-Condition? In a nutshell, the CW-Condition makes water and its derivative resources (i.e., land usable for hunting, fishery, forestry, crop cultivation and cattle herding) so diffuse that any emerging economy only functions with decentral management of water, land and labor. Decentral management infuses local autonomies into the social fabric, so much that evolving forms of social organization—be it family households, religious orders, business corporations or civic associations—mature under self-governance. Experience in self-governance equips social groups with two essential skills: resource mobilization and coalition building. In combination, these skills generate the power to organize grassroots resistance against top-down impositions, such as over-taxation and related forms of resource extraction. As a consequence, the state-building process begins slowly and proceeds as a conflictual affair between rulers’ authority ambitions and bottom-up opposition. This conflict steers state formation towards contractual institutional arrangements in which elected assemblies check the executive power of central rulers. Under these checks, government action navigates towards an indiscriminate pursuit of the common good. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1666082025-09-20T05:13:48Z The Cool Water Effect Welzel, Christian Kruse, Stefan Brunkert, Lennart Brieger, Steven A. Open Access liberalism Western Exceptionalism authoritarianism colonialism geo-climatic cool water thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the West’s emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic root—which we describe as the Cool Water (CW-) Condition: that is, the combination of mostly cool seasons with steady rain in coastal proximity. What is so special about the CW-Condition? In a nutshell, the CW-Condition makes water and its derivative resources (i.e., land usable for hunting, fishery, forestry, crop cultivation and cattle herding) so diffuse that any emerging economy only functions with decentral management of water, land and labor. Decentral management infuses local autonomies into the social fabric, so much that evolving forms of social organization—be it family households, religious orders, business corporations or civic associations—mature under self-governance. Experience in self-governance equips social groups with two essential skills: resource mobilization and coalition building. In combination, these skills generate the power to organize grassroots resistance against top-down impositions, such as over-taxation and related forms of resource extraction. As a consequence, the state-building process begins slowly and proceeds as a conflictual affair between rulers’ authority ambitions and bottom-up opposition. This conflict steers state formation towards contractual institutional arrangements in which elected assemblies check the executive power of central rulers. Under these checks, government action navigates towards an indiscriminate pursuit of the common good. 2025-09-19T05:05:02Z 2025-09-19T05:05:02Z 2025-09-18T16:12:25Z 2025 book ONIX_20250918T180551_9783031818615_9 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106039 9783031818615 9783031818608 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166608 eng Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security; Political Science and International Studies; Political Science and International Studies (R0) open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106039/1/9783031818615.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106039/1/9783031818615.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-81861-5 10.1007/978-3-031-81861-5 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 9783031818615 9783031818608 Palgrave Macmillan 491 Cham open access |
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