Climate Migration and Security Securitisation as a Strategy in Climate Change Politics

"Few in Europe doubt that climate change represents a significant global challenge. But less obvious is the extent to which climate change has become both a subject and tool of global diplomacy in recent years. In this excellent and well-researched book, Ingrid Boas sheds light on how small island and European states - notably the UK - have constructed climate change as a security threat, and their unsuccessful efforts to persuade major emerging developing countries - notably India - that this threat is significant. Her analysis tells us much about the misunderstandings and mistrust that beset international diplomacy in the 21st century."-Professor Richard Black, SOAS, University of London

"Threats of 'climate wars' and floods of 'climate refugees' have been central in the climate-change discourse for years, especially in the richer countries in the North. But does such 'securitisation' of climate policy really help? Who pushes discourses of 'environmental security', and who benefits? Ingrid Boas' outstanding analysis reveals in great detail the complex politics around recent attempts at a 'securitisation' of climate politics. Her book is a must-read for scholars as well as policy-makers in this field, who will find in this remarkable study an important insight: 'Scare stories' are not the best means to convince an already skeptical audience."-Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam and Lund University