This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discoursesc and fills a gap in the literature, in which studies focus either on the global level or on single-country cases and do not reconstruct detailed securitisation dynamics.

1 Introduction

2 Analysing climate security discourses

3 The United States: climate change as danger to the state

4 Germany: ambivalent forerunner in individual security

5 Mexico: A case of politicised securitisation?

6 Turkey: no climate for change?

7 Conclusion: the politics of securitising climate change

Thomas Diez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is author/editor of numerous books, including, most recently, A Different Kind of Power? The EU's Role in International Politics (2014).

Franziskus von Lucke is Researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Zehra Wellmann is Researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany.