ABSTRACT
Global ecopolitics involves the use of environmental issues, control over natural resources, scarcity arguments, and related concerns of social justice to overturn the international political hierarchy and related system of rules established during the period of industrial expansion. Control over natural resources and their use as an economic and political weapon has become a critical bargaining chip in the recent ecopolitics. In order to understand the dynamics behind the emergence of ecopolitics, it is necessary to understand some basic principles of ecology. "Ecopolitics" is the term that describes the cluster of economic, ecological, and ethical issues that accompanies the changes in perspective in international relations. Ecopolitics represents the emergence of broader ecological, ethical, and economic issues and conflicts in international politics as a partial substitute for the narrower military power issues typical of the international politics of the industrial era.
