The Securitisation of Climate Change - Couverture souple

Diez, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 113895635X ISBN 13 : 9781138956353

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses.

It thus closes an empirical gap in the literature, in which securitisation studies focus either on the global level or on single-country cases and do not reconstruct detailed securitisation dynamics. The comparative framework presented here allows conclusions to be drawn about the conditions and consequences of successful securitisation based on empirical and comparative analysis rather than theoretical debate only. The authors focus on which climate-security discourses have been dominant, which actors have been involved, which political consequences have been legitimised and what role the broader context has played in enabling the specific securitisations. By including industrialised countries (USA, Germany) and emerging economies (Mexico, Turkey) as well as climate vanguards (Germany, Mexico) and laggards (USA, Turkey), the book generates insights into how securitisation processes play out in different contexts and at the same time address the 'Western bias' in securitisation and environmental studies .

As a basis for research, the authors develop a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. This framework clarifies and summarises the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security and risk. On the one hand, the book thus introduces order into a currently rather confusing debate. On the other hand, this framework allows the authors to operationalise different conceptions of securitisation and thus to trace these in the empirical studies. The book further contributes to securitisation theory by not only addressing the two different logics of security and risk, but by also re-defining and mapping the relationship between politicisation and securitisation.

This study uses actor analysis, discourse analysis of the most relevant reports on climate change and security, expert interviews, and the analysis of parliamentary debates and newspaper coverage. This systematic methodological approach enables the authors to trace securitisation processes and to come to detailed insights about how the dominant climate-security discourses have translated into concrete policies. On this basis, we can also assess these consequences from a normative perspective. In addition, the book generates insights into the conditions for success or failure of securitisation by including the role of specific actors as well as the wider context. Thus, the approach contributes to the literature on climate change as well as to critical security studies in general and encourages a more empirically and comparatively focused research agenda in both fields.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses.

It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It thereby clarifies the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security, risk and politics. Whereas securitisation studies have traditionally focused on either a single country case study or a global overview, consequently failing to reconstruct detailed securitisation dynamics, this is the first book to provide a systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses in four countries and thus closes an empirical gap in the present literature. In addition, this comparative framework allows the drawing of conclusions about the conditions for and consequences of successful securitisation based on empirical and comparative analysis rather than theoretical debate only.

This book will of interest to students of climate change, environmental studies, critical security, global governance, and IR in general.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 113895635X
• ISBN 13: 9781138956353
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224