Linking climate change and security in Mexico: explorations into an attempted securitisation in the Global South

Lucke, Franziskus von

doi:10.1057/jird.2016.19

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“…Boas [52], for example, documented how the Indian government rejected 'alarmist' ideas of climate security, dismissing them as a Western negotiating tactic designed to encourage more binding carbon mitigation targets. Similarly, von Lucke [53] argued that the securitisation of climate change in Mexico produced a limited effect on government policy due, in part, to the dominance of 'hard' security issues in the country, such as conflicts with drug cartels. In these cases, there is little consensus over what role, if any, intergovernmental organisations like the UN Security Council should adopt in encouraging the governments of developing countries to move climate security concerns higher up their political agendas [54].…”

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Climate change and security research: Conflict, securitisation and human agency

Arnall

2023

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Climate change has increasingly been understood as a security problem by researchers, policymakers and media commentators. This paper reviews two strands of work that have been central to the development of this understanding–namely 1) the links between global heating and violent conflict and 2) the securitisation of climate change–before outlining an agency-oriented perspective on the climate-security nexus. While providing sophisticated analyses of the connections between climate change and security, both the conflict and securitisation strands have encountered several epistemological challenges. I argue that the climate security concept can be revitalised in a progressive manner if a more dynamic, relational approach to understanding security is taken. Such an approach recognises people’s everyday capacities in managing their own safety as well as the security challenges involved in responding to a continually evolving threat such as climate change.

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Climate change and security research: Conflict, securitisation and human agency

Arnall

2023

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“…However, the nature and meaning of security have been subjected to debate, and recent decades have witnessed a "broadening" of its agenda to include non-security concerns (Williams, 2003). Economic, environmental, health, gender, and cultural issues that conventionally have not been security issues, are now often encompassed under national security (Williams, 2003), including energy and environment (Boas, 2015;von Lucke, 2018), health issues (e.g., HIV/AIDS) (McInnes & Rushton, 2013;Youde, 2018), religion (Mavelli, 2013), cyber-space (Hansen & Nissenbaum, 2009;Lacy & Prince, 2018), and migration (Boswell, 2007;Léonard, 2010; also consider US president Donald Trump's claim in early 2019 that he needed $6.7bn in order to build the wall as a matter of national security). The increasing use of security language as a tool to prioritize unconventional security issues is based on the premise that security is important and thus deserves national prominence and financial support (Hudson, 2009).…”

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National security and FDI policy ambiguity: A commentary

Lai

2021

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From Germany's chipmaker Infineon's proposed takeover of US-based Wolfspeed being blocked in 2017 to China's Huawei being banned in the USA and other countries in 2020; from the UK's new National Security and Investment Bill being announced in the Queen's Speech on 19 December 2019, to the EU's FDI Screening Regulation fully entering into force on 11 October 2020, inward foreign direct investments are increasingly scrutinized by host-country governments on the grounds of national security concerns. While FDI policy and screening regimes work differently in different countries, they share something in common, that is, ambiguity and obscurity have become the key features of FDI policies for most countries when concerned with national security. Drawing on securitization and balance-of-power theories, I contend that the ambiguity in FDI policy is intentionally constructed to leave room for power struggles. I argue that ambiguity is an important prerequisite for politicians and other political and corporate actors to engage in the securitization of FDI to support their political and commercial agendas. This commentary contributes to a better understanding of the prevailing trend of ambiguity in relation to inward FDI policy, a reality that is different from what Cuervo-Cazurra (2018) advocates.https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibp

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Lucke

2020

New Security Challenges

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Linking climate change and security in Mexico: explorations into an attempted securitisation in the Global South

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Climate change and security research: Conflict, securitisation and human agency

Climate change and security research: Conflict, securitisation and human agency

National security and FDI policy ambiguity: A commentary

Introduction and Theoretical Framework

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