Conflict and Pollution: Examining the impact of security frames on global climate governance
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2024-07-12
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The issue of military pollution has been overlooked consistently in international climate agreements.
This needs to be addressed to prevent a destructive cycle where resource scarcity due to climate
change leads to more violence and ecological decay. This is why this research aims to examine the
factors that have led to the exclusion of military emissions in global climate governance.
This study argues that constructivist perspectives on the relationship between narrow security frames
and masculine security frames with regard to the decarbonization efforts by the international
community can provide new insight into the study of global climate governance and securitization.
This argument is tested through a case study of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The method of discursive
institutionalism, combined with critical discourse analysis was employed to first analyze the informal
institutions, formal institutions, and geopolitical constraints that shaped the negotiations. The results
showed the JUSCANZ coalition, the United States, and the U.S. Department of Defence to be
influential actors during the process. A critical discourse analysis was applied to official documents,
reports, and policy recommendations from both Kyoto subsidiary bodies and US representatives
during the negotiations between 1996 and 1998.
After analyzing the dominant discourse used in informal and formal institutions of global climate
governance, this study shows that institutional factors, combined with narrow frames of security and
masculine frames of security led to the exemption of military-related emissions in the Kyoto Protocol
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen