CLIMATE WARS

From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, here is a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival. Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea-levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research and interviews.

‘The multitude of sources and the political perspective on global warming make the book scarier and more convincing than the usual predictions limited to climate and weather. We can hope that Dyer’s sources are impressive enough to convince policy makers to take serious action.’ Publishers Weekly

‘Terrifying.’ Bookseller

'Dyer makes the final, and important leap from merely discussing forthcoming climate change to predicting the political and economic results of a warmed Earth. the of this move from weather forecasting to a holistic view of the future is terrifying.... Frightening yet essential reading.' Library Journal

'Compelling... A warning of what could happen if we don't all pull our fingers out.' Big Issue

'Hopefully, his lucidly written book may help raise awareness of the potential crisis.' Irish Times

'Like a Stephen King novel, it's scary, but you can't put it down.' G Magazine

'Gwynne Dyer's brilliant analysis, in Climate Wars, of the geopolitical conflicts that may unfold over the next few decades - even if we do get serious about global warming - is almost too fearsome to absorb. When I talk to the scientists themselves, there is a palpable sense of panic, something confirmed by Dyer in his interviews conducted around the world.' The Monthly

'Gwynne Dyer is one of the few who are both courageous enough to tell the unvarnished truth, and have the background to understand, not misrepresent the inputs. This book does a superb job of detailing the emerging realities of Climate/Energy. These realities are not pretty.'
Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA

'This is a truly important and timely book. No one, not even the IPCC, really knows what the world climate will be ten years from now, but we and our governments have to make intelligent guesses. Gwynne Dyer has made the best and most plausible set of guesses I have yet seen about the human consequences of climate change, of how drought and heat may ignite wars, even nuclear wars, around the globe.'
James Lovelock, British geophysicist, author of The Revenge of Gaia

'The current debate on climate change is mostly on its future effects, but few are brave enough to work out what they might be. Here is a lively, alarming and even entertaining attempt to look ahead. Water and war have always been associated. We need hope as well as good sense in looking at the future. Here it is.' Sir Crispin Tickell, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme, James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford

'Anyone still complacent about climate change will find Climate Wars instructive and disturbing. These articulate insights into climate geopolitics by military historian Gwynne Dyer are an important tool for understanding why the climate challenge is big, hard, and vital to human survival - yet soluble if we pay attention now.'
Amory B. Lovins, Chairman & Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

'Dyer writes in a direct and personal style... an engaging read.' Jeffrey Mazo, Survival Journal

Sales

Random House Canada

Scribe ANZ

Oneworld UK & US

Laffont France

Klett Cotta Germany

Citic Press China (simplified)

Shinchosha Japan

AST Russia

Wealth Press Taiwan (complex)

Hermes Publishing Bulgaria

Gimmyoung Korea

Uitgeverij Het Spectrum NL

Marco Tropea Italy

Jarrous Press Lebanon

Paloma Turkey

Librooks Spain

Material: finished copies of Canadian and Australian editions (256pp); updated for UK edition.

WAR: The LETHAL CUSTOM

‘A seminal book… a valuable historical treatise and a fervent and compelling call toward pacifism.’ Publishers Weekly

Noted military historian Gwynne Dyer ranges from the tumbling walls of Jericho and primitive tribal skirmishes to the modern advent of total war, showing conclusively that the basic tenets of war remain unchanged. The only real change has been technological, permitting us to make war on a mass scale.

“War is part of our history, but it is not part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.”

Dyer squarely confronts the reality of war, and the threat of nuclear weapons, but does not despair that war is our eternal legacy, believing that that war can be abolished. War is an award-winning book, widely regarded as one of the most compelling analyses of the history of armed conflict, which explores the human past to imagine a different future.

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‘Brilliant... An inspiringly rational book, written with dry wit and a resigned wisdom: to the brutal follies of mankind. This is a rare history of war; it rekindles hope, too.’ Newark Star Ledger

‘Provocative, agile and very well argued, with ana-ha!moment on nearly every page.’ Kirkus Reviews

‘Sparkling with insight and digressions… As an interpretive history of war, War is brilliant.’ The Seattle Times

‘Dr. Gwynne Dyer is one of Canada’s best known defence and foreign policy analysts.’ National Post

‘A highly readable history of human warfare.’ Times Colonist (Victoria)

Sales

Random House/Vintage Canada

Basic Books US

Belacqua Ediciones S.L Spain

Material: Finished copies (484pp).

AFTER IRAQ: Anarchy & Renewal in the Middle East

Published in Canada and Australia as THE MESS THEY MADE: THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER IRAQ

‘For chapter two alone, Dyer’s book is worth the money. Dyer writes with easy fluency, with gentle, teasing wit, and with an intelligent balance between the populist and academic that makes his argument all the more persuasive.’ Irish Times

‘Dyer writes with a racy style and provokes as much as he informs. He leaves one amazed at the sheer incompetence of the American and British governments of recent years.' The Independent

‘If you read no other analysis, read Dyer’s.’ Ottawa Citizen

'Not only does he place current events in a balanced and historical context, he also examines their significance in terms of the future.' Courier Mail, Australia

Sales

McClelland & Stewart Canada

Scribe Australia

Thomas Dunne (SMP) USA

Yale University Press UK

Arab Scientific Publishers Lebanon

Campus Verlag Germany

Material: finished copies of UK and US editions (267pp).

crawling from the wreckage

Nobody will admit it, but the world is getting better. At least compared to five years ago. Mortal threats abound (as they always do), but Bush is gone, the terrorists are only background noise, people and governments are starting to take climate change seriously, and the Great Recession wasn't as bad as advertised. Gwynne Dyer traces his five-year transition from despair to faint hope through his newspaper columns, reworked into a coherent whole.

Sales

Random House Canada

Material: Finished copies (359pp).