Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security

Small Island Developing States and climate securitisation in international politics: Towards a comprehensive conception

“…Challenges for the securitising move are also closely aligned with concepts developed by the post-Cold War security and international relations schools, including the Copenhagen School (Buzan & Waever, 1997;Torres Camprubí, 2016;Huysmans, 2002;International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2020;Krause & Williams, 1997;McDonald, 2021;Mead, 2021;Stritzel, 2007;United Nations, 2009;van Schaik et al, 2018). Post-Cold War studies focus on conceptualising non-military issues, including political, societal, economic, and environmental issues, as security threats.…”

“…Concepts of climate securitisation have emerged as part of post-Cold War security and policy studies on non-traditional security issues faced by individuals and communities. Post-Cold War order saw new and emerging socio-economic, political, and environmental circumstances associated with increasing poverty, migration, violations of human rights, terrorism, global warming, and sea level rise (Krause & Williams, 1997;McDonald, 2021). In the 1980s and 1990s, such non-military events were incorporated into international relations (IR) scholarship and security studies to understand their potential implications for international peace and security (C.A.S.E.…”

“…It aims to show how SIDS' engagement in the Security Council debate can provide an innovative approach to explain and overcome some of the conceptual and policy challenges for climate securitisation at the international level. In line with the widened agenda of security studies (Buzan et al, 1998;McDonald, 2021;Wallis et al, 2022), this article asserts that there is a need for international security speakers to adopt non-traditional approaches in order to frame threats and security provisions regarding climate change. This is particularly important for SIDS as they have promoted multidimensional and holistic approaches to explain climate threats and security (van Schaik et al, 2018;Security Council, 2007.…”

“…Various experiences have resulted in divergent viewpoints among participants in the climate security debate (McDonald, 2013(McDonald, , 2018(McDonald, , 2021Warner & Boas, 2019). The initial debate on climate security in the Security Council was launched in 2007 and 2011 by the United Kingdom and Germany, respectively.…”

“…The divergent views have made it difficult for debating actors to come to agreement about the nature of threat and security provisions (McDonald, 2018;Oels, 2012;Security Council, 2018. This lack of agreement has created challenges to fully institutionalise climate security at the international level (McDonald, 2021;Peters & Mayhew, 2016;Scott, 2012;Warner & Boas, 2019). Therefore, an important question arises as to how to explain the challenges around the securitising move at the international level.…”