Analysis on China’s climate securitization based on Copenhagen School

doi:10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2018.161

Abstract

Abstract:

Climate change, as a typical “non-traditional security” issue, whose position in national security affairs has been debated for a long time. Securitization theory is an important method to analyze the non-traditional national security. The securitization factor method proposed by the Copenhagen School is used to compare the Sino-U.S. climate securitization level in this paper. The results are as follows. Security is an inter-subject phenomenon. China is in the process of “securitization” with political and scientific authority as main body, and the U.S. is in “non-securitization” process caused by political authority. Inter-subjectivity is identification degree of main body to “existential threat”. It is inharmonious between inter-subjective and progress of climate securitization in China. The top political leader has a higher level of climate securitization than the public. The means of expression of climate existential threat is a restrictive factor to public climate securitization level, which includes single perspective and media of securitization. The modes of global perspective and inter-state graphical comparison are induced to enhance the expression effect of existential threat, which can propose method to promote climate securitization level of China.

Key words: Climate securitization, Copenhagen School, Comparative analysis, China

Xin MA,Wen-Tao WANG,Xue-Yan ZHANG,Shao-Hong WU,Yan-Hua LIU. Analysis on China’s climate securitization based on Copenhagen School[J]. Climate Change Research, 2019, 15(6): 693-699.

Figures/Tables 5

Table 1 Comparison of Sino-U.S. climate securitization

Fig. 1 Population affected by sea level rise in 2100 under global 2℃ target (NA refers to landlocked countries)[16]

Fig. 2 Global climate food security index in the 2050s[18]

Fig. 3 Global water stress condition under climate change in the 2040s [19]

Fig. 4 Comprehensive understanding on climate securitization after comparison between China and the U.S.

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