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Instructors: Anselm Vogler
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
96-4.03
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
German/English
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 25
Waiting list:
Waiting list quota: 20%
More information:
This course is open to all students of the Master's programme "Peace and Security Studies" (regardless of whether they are enrolled in the one-year or two-year version).
The course is also open to students of other degree programmes. The prerequisite for participation in the course is attendance at the first session. In case of non-attendance, the place will be forfeited and will be made available for latecomers.
Comments/contents:
This seminar provides an overview on climate change as a multi-faceted security issue. An first session will introduce the concept of complexity and different forms of causation as guiding concepts for the subsequent sessions. The seminar will briefly discuss climate change itself and allocate it along other processes that stress global boundaries in the Anthropocene. Subsequently, direct first-order climate impacts on human security along the concepts of exposure, vulnerability and preparedness/adaptation will be discussed. Then the seminar provides an overview on various second-order climate security impacts. This includes migration as symptom, adaptation and securitized issue; possible effects of climate change on national security and international conflicts/tensions; and effects of climate-related events on sub-/transnational violent conflicts. After mapping these possible climate impacts, policy remedies such as good institutions and resilience but also deeper changes in the ways of production are discussed. The last part of the seminar focuses on a selection of responses to climate security issued by various national and international policy institutions (i.a.: UNFCCC, UNSC, national governments, militaries).
Learning objectives:
Die Teilnehmenden erarbeiten sich durch Lektüre Einblicke in verschiedene wesentliche Teilaspekte der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimasicherheitsforschung. Das angelesene Wissen wird in Seminardiskussionen vertreten, erörtert und hinsichtlich empirischer und normativer Implikationen diskutiert. In den schriftlichen Prüfungsleistungen (Exposé, Seminararbeit) erarbeiten sich die Teilnehmenden vertiefte Einblicke in einen Teilaspekt und diskutieren den dessen Forschungsstand zielgerichtet, um eine empirisch-analytische Antwort auf eine selbstgestellte Forschungsfrage zu finden.
Didactic concept:
The course begins with a 90-minute organizational/content introductory session and four subsequent block appointments, spread over Fridays and Saturdays. During each of these four block dates, several topics will be discussed. Topics will be developed through a review of seminar readings and a subsequent discussion (co-)moderated by participants. The instructor will provide an appropriate summary of what was discussed. The courses aim at a high degree of interaction and therefore require a high readiness to read on the part of the participants.
During the semester, students are required to prepare an exposé outlining the content and objectives of the planned seminar paper. The lecturer will provide detailed feedback on this exposé with the aim of supporting the preparation of the seminar paper. After receiving feedback on their exposé, participants will complete a seminar paper of at least 12 pages in which they empirically-analytically investigate a topic area of the seminar and formulate an answer to a self-selected research question.
Literature:
Barnett, Jon. 2019. ‘Global Environmental Change I: Climate Resilient Peace?’ Progress in Human Geography 43 (5): 927–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518798077.
Franzke, Christian L E, Alessio Ciullo, Elisabeth A Gilmore, Denise Margaret Matias, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Anton Orlov, Shona K Paterson, Jürgen Scheffran, and Jana Sillmann. 2022. ‘Perspectives on Tipping Points in Integrated Models of the Natural and Human Earth System: Cascading Effects and Telecoupling’. Environmental Research Letters 17 (1): 015004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac42fd.
Ide, Tobias. 2017. ‘Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict: Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict’. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 8 (3): e456. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.456.
McDonald, Matt. 2018. ‘Climate Change and Security: Towards Ecological Security?’ International Theory 10 (2): 153–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752971918000039.
Uexkull, Nina von, and Halvard Buhaug. 2021. ‘Security Implications of Climate Change: A Decade of Scientific Progress’. Journal of Peace Research 58 (1): 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343320984210.
Additional examination information:
The final grade is composed of the following assignments:
- Short presentation: Participants discuss an additional text and moderate a discussion on the one thematic aspect of the session together with the lecturer (weight: 20% of the grade).
- Exposé: The participants outline the planned seminar paper including a discussion of the literature. The exposé is to be submitted during the semester. The instructor will provide thorough feedback with the aim of supporting the preparation of the seminar paper (weight: 25% of the grade).
- Seminar paper: Participants write a seminar paper of at least 12 pages in which they answer a self-imposed research question on the topic of climate security in an empirical-analytical way. The seminar paper is due at the end of the semester (weight: 55% of the grade).
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