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Considers the rapid proliferation of environmental justice movements around the globe over the past decade & its implications for improved environmental protection & sociopolitical stability at the domestic & interstate levels. This article uses a broad cross-country comparison to examine (1) the long-term viability of the environment-social justice alliance & (2) the potentially divisive consequences of the environmental justice frame. Not only does this study reveal an instrumental -- & thus possibly short-term -- aspect to the merger of these two distinct causes & discourses, but it also indicates that, under certain conditions, the framing of environmental issues in terms of social justice may reinforce racial, ethnic, or other preexisting cleavages & increase the potential for conflict at the domestic & interstate levels. An in-depth comparison of environmental justice & econationalist movements in the First, Second, & Third Worlds highlights observed environmental & social benefits of framing environmental issues in terms of social justice & identity while probing the resilience of the alliance between the two causes & the potential tradeoffs associated with the possible intensification of racial, ethnic, or other identity cleavages in society. 74 References. Adapted from the source document.

This paper considers the ethnic, ideological, and geopolitical crises that have engulfed the Crimean peninsula since 1991 and provides a preliminary explanation for the region's success in averting violent conflict to date. Focusing on the role of political entrepreneurs in mobilizing key social constituencies, it argues that the failure of competing elites to correctly identify and skillfully manipulate existing ethnic, ideological, and geopolitical cleavages in society significantly limited the effectiveness of their mobilizational appeals. The existence of cross-cutting cleavages and the failure of political entrepreneurs to bring these cleavages into alignment have played a central role in deterring violent conflict in the region.

Examines the historic roots and current status of ethnic and other factions in Crimean politics; with analysis of factors influencing the failure of ethnic groups to generate violent political confrontations.