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Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict pp 243–258Cite as

Security as a Weapon: How Cataclysm Discourses Frame International Climate Negotiations

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I want to testify today about what I believe is a planetary emergency – a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth (Al Gore 2007). […] apocalyptic imaginations are decidedly populist and foreclose a proper political framing […], ecology is the new opium for the masses (Swyngedouw 2009).

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    Delf Rothe

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    Jürgen Scheffran

  2. , Institute of Peace Research and Security, Hamburg University, Beim Schlump 83, Hamburg, 20144, Germany

    Michael Brzoska

  3. AG Friedensforschung + Europ., Sicherheitspolitik, AFES-PRESS, Alte Bergsteige 47, Mosbach, 74821, Germany

    Hans Günter Brauch

  4. ZMAW, Res. Group Climate Change and Security, Hamburg University, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Peter Michael Link

  5. ZMAW, Res. Group Climate Change and Security, Hamburg University, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

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Rothe, D. (2012). Security as a Weapon: How Cataclysm Discourses Frame International Climate Negotiations. In: Scheffran, J., Brzoska, M., Brauch, H., Link, P., Schilling, J. (eds) Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_12

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