12555. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE WORK OF MARGARET AND HAROLD SPROUT. Closely-argued summary of this lesser-known but highly stimulating political science theory. Includes previous environmental in political science, summary of the theories of the Sprouts and how they work to provide broad and deep explanations of human political behavior from the individual level to the global. theory applied to Saddam Hussein's invasions of Iran and Kuwait, focusing on the crucial difference between perception and objective reality. 7p., 7 notes in text, 1b.