Ecopolitical discourse : « environmental security » and political geography
Environment ; Environmental degradation ; International relations ; Political geography ; Security ; Sovereignty ; State ; Territory
Recent reviews of global politics and the future of security policy have repeatedly raised environmental themes. This juxtaposition raises numerous issues of relevance to geographical inquiry. Security is tied closely to themes of sovereignty
Security atmospheres or the crystallisation of worlds
Affect ; Atmosphere ; Political geography ; Security ; Space ; War
This paper makes several moves towards the study of geographies of security through notions of atmosphere. Two related claims circulate through this paper: that security is becoming attuned to what we might call affective atmospheres, whilst
it is itself becoming atmospheric. It proceeds to develop, first, a correlation of ideas across concepts of security, power, and affective atmospheres. The following section sees security understood atmospherically, before it goes on to explore how security
Sovereignty for security ? : the discourse of sovereignty in Estonia
Citizenship ; Discourse ; Economic integration ; Estonia ; Ethnicity ; Policy ; Security ; Sovereignty ; State
The Estonian sovereignty discourse hinges on the question as to whether or not international integration strengthens Estonia's national security against the Russian threat. Different assumptions and positions on the issue make possible a highly
The A. explains Iraq's precipitous decline into food insecurity following its military invasion of Kuwait. Food security and insecurity are defined and examined in Iraq context. Five vulnerabilities are identified that are activated by international
retaliation against Iraq. The emergence and intensification of food insecurity are analyzed step by step, followed by consideration of how food security might be restored.
Author criticizes the two extreme views of environmental security : the pessimist view (the theory of Himalayan environmental degradation) that population is growing while the resource bas eis static or declining and the optimist view (heralded
by Julian Simon) that there are no environmental limits because of unfailing human ingenuity. He suggest rejecting the mutually opposed orthodoxies for socially informed understanding of environmental security that considers types of social solidarity
The six articles deal with the dimension and dynamic of globalizing food crises ; the food crisis and food security in the emerging economy of India ; the urban food crisis in Cairo, the exposure and resistance ; urban food security with creative
agricultural utilization of the urban areas (for example under high voltage cables) with case studies of Tanzania and Philippines; from food aid towards food assistance, food security in times of global food scarcity ; climate change with floods and storms
Making the subterranean visible : security, tunnels, and the United States–Mexico border
Frontier ; Illegality ; Mexico ; Security ; Sovereignty ; Space ; Territorial control ; Tunnel ; United States of America
and control than is the surface border. As a result, the need to demonstrate security success at both the national and the agency level has risen. Efforts to make tunnel discoveries (and security) visible are made within border-security agencies and within
national discourse and legislation. These efforts spatially fix tunnels to the border in ways that obscure fuller a understanding of drug trafficking in general. This paper employs archival research, content analysis, and informal interviews with security
Private Security in Guatemala: Pathway to Its Proliferation
Community ; Criminality ; Guatemala ; Neighbourhood ; Political geography ; Private sector ; Public policy ; Role of the State ; Security ; Social geography ; Violence ; path dependency ; post-war ; private security companies ; public security
; security neighbourhoods committees
matière.#It has become common to explain the proliferation of private security services as causally determined by crime rates and institutional weakness. This article on the contrary argues that other explanatory factors need to be emphasised, especially
for post-war societies: institutional trajectories and political processes. The article first presents the present situation of commercial and non-commercial private security services in Guatemala (private security companies as well as security
in post-war society. It argues that the proliferation of private security services is an outcome of the reinforcing of an institutional pattern of public security displacement to the private sphere. The continuity of self-defence and vigilante
organisations thereby emerges as a stronger explanatory factor of the proliferation of private security services in post-war societies than their self-explained authorisation through high crime rates.
Security implications of a worst-case scenario of climate change in the South-west Pacific
Agricultural productivity ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Forecast ; Global change ; Inundation ; Island ; Land tenure system ; Migration ; Model ; Pacific Region ; Sea level ; Security
This paper examines the links between climate change and security in the island states of the South-west Pacific. A worst-case scenario of climate change is presented which suggests that land will be lost or rendered uninhabitable in all Pacific
Island states as a result of climate-change impacts. Loss of land is the focus of this paper. The A. demonstrates clearly how an environmental threat such as climate change can undermine economic, societal, political and military security in the island
states of the South-west Pacific. Clearly, climate change is an important threat to human security.
Cambodia ; Inner city ; Neighbourhood ; Phnom Penh ; Police ; Political geography ; Privatisation ; Security ; Street ; Urban area
This paper examines everyday interactions of money, power, and security in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, informed by a series of transects and interviews. It shows that the sale and enclosure of Cambodian land and property have yielded both
profit and tensions. These are connected with the meanings and operation of security. The most powerful ‘security’ agency in Phnom Penh is neither wholly ‘public’ nor fully ‘private’, but hybrid; where public police and military personnnel
Definitions of security in German and Polish debates about Russian gas pipelines
A secure energy supply line has become one of the most important issues in public debates about foreign policy. The guardian newspaper, reporting on a paper by Institution of Civil Engineers, warned that Britain might be facing power cuts
and illustrated this fear by picturing a burning candle. The paper pointed out that the supply of gas was threatened by gas-needy and unstable countries along the road. The aim of this paper is to analyse the changing discourses of security in German and Polish