Security and the Environment - Securitisation Theory and Us Environmental Security Policy

"In 1993 the Clinton Administration declared environmental security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush Administration environmental policy had vanished from the government's agenda. This book uses changing US policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security. Security and the Environment brings together the subject of environmental security and the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a significant and original contribution to environmental security studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of interest to international relations scholars and political practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of international environmental politics and US policy making"--Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The nature of securitisation theory; 2. A revised securitisation theory; 3. The rise of US environmental security; 4. The Clinton administrations and environmental security; 5. The Bush administrations and environmental security; 6. The moral evaluation of environmental security; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Rita Floyd is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Security.

Product details

• Authors: Rita Floyd, Rita (University of Warwick) Floyd, Floyd Rita
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107416642
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41664-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, The environment, Politics & government, Environmental factors, United States of America, USA, EU (European Union), Military and defence strategy, International institutions, Environmental policy and protocols, Security Services