Series: Routledge Studies in Resilience. Num Pages: 246 pages, 8 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GTJ; JP; RNPG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502. . 2015. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Securitizing Global Warming: A Climate of Complexity (Routledge Studies in Resilience)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1138935301
ISBN 13: 9781138935303
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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This book explores the reasons for a recent securitization of climate change, and reveals how the understanding of climate change as a security threat fuels resilience as a contemporary political paradigm.

Since 2007, political and public discourse has portrayed climate change in terms of international or national security. This increasing attention to the security implications of climate change is puzzling, however, given the fact that linkages between climate change and conflict or violence are heavily disputed in the empirical literature. This book explains this trend of a securitization of global warming and discusses its political implications. It traces the actor coalition that promoted the idea of climate change as a security issue and reveals the symbols, narratives and storylines that make up this discourse. Drawing on three detailed case studies at the international level of the United Nations, the regional level of the Euro-Mediterranean and the national level of the UK, the book reveals how climate change is turned into a non-linear and unpredictable threat. The resulting complexity discourse prevents the adoption of any exceptional measures and instead presents resilience as the only way to cope with the climate threat. This book shows that we can only grasp the complexity of the securitization process and its implications in the climate change case by comparing it at different political levels over a longer period. By developing a securitization framework the book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate on security and resilience in critical security studies.

This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, resilience, environmental studies, global governance and IR in general.

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Delf Rothe is a Postdoc-Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg, Germany, and has a PhD in political science.

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