Clemens Hoffmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clemens Hoffmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clemens |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMANN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8476-8102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
New directions in climate justice? A dialogue between critical climate justice and policy studies scholars
New directions in just climate policymaking can emerge from the dialogue between critical climate justice and policy studies scholars. Current climate justice research presents a strong and coherent message about the scale and urgency of climatic challenges, historical responsibilities, colonialism, systemic inequalities, intersectionality and the role of recognitional, procedural, and distributional justice-driven solutions. However, it struggle…
Decarbonization rush? The problem of speed in the energy transition
A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean
The new geopolitics of energy in the Eastern Mediterranean is not determined by hydrocarbons anymore. A significant expansion of renewables is underway. Driven by a surge in ‘Green Finance’ and decarbonization policies, this development changes conventional relationships of dependency. This takes place in an environment, where Asian and Western energy security strategies rapidly evolve in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. North Africa and…
Divided Environments
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political and violent conflict; indeed, many claim that this future is already with us. Divided Environments, however, shows that this is mistaken. Focusing especially on the links between climate change, water and security, an…
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation
Resource conflicts and human–environment conflicts are active around the globe. As planetary, carbon-induced climate change necessitates new responses, the policies and practices of decarbonisation add new dimensions to existing conflicts. Using examples from two nations with ambitious aims for the decarbonisation of their economies, Ethiopia and Morocco, we illustrate how unintended conflicts and adverse ecosystem impacts arise when nature canno…
Divided Environments
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria
First paragraph: The drylands of the Middle East have been long seen not only as unfavourable to life, but also and relatedly, socio-politically fragile. Fraught with myths of eternal ‘ethnic’, ‘sectarian’, or ‘resource conflict’, the chronic political instability of the Middle East from Afghanistan and Yemen to Iraq and Syria has been often seen as intrinsic to a scarce ‘nature’, a scorched earth, tendentially collapsing into brute violence whic…
Neo-Ottomanism, Eurasianism or securing the region? A longer view on Turkey’s interventionism
Few observers will have noticed that Turkey is second only to the USA in having large parts of its army stationed abroad. This contribution will focus on these interventions – which are diverse in nature and political origin. Featuring the second largest territorial army within NATO and only recently exploring its regional and, to some extent, global geopolitical ambitions, Turkey’s interventionism is ambiguous and remains difficult to make sense…
IKT und Klimaschutz
Im Kopernikus-Projekt ENavi werden die Rollen von Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) im Energiesystem und die Chancen der Digitalisierung für die Bereiche Strom, Wärme und Mobilität untersucht
Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies
Environmental determinism as Orientalism
From 'Resource Curse' to 'Climate Conflict', more and more analyses of the current crisis in the Middle East start their reasoning from geo-physical or natural conditions as determinants of social life. Paradoxically, despite its resource riches giving rise to conflict, the region's ecology is portrayed as fragile, alien and hostile. This imperial oriental imagination, assumes that a scarce nature is mismanaged by societies and states overall inc…
Introduction to War, revolt and rupture
Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security.In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing an assessment of the state of debate on climate security, and then by summarising the eight articles that follow.We observe, to start with, that contemporary climate security discourse is dominated by a problematic ensemble of p…
From Small Streams to Pipe Dreams – The Hydro-Engineering of the Cyprus Conflict
A 2008 water crisis triggered collective fears of droughts and long-term scarcities both north and south of the buffer zone dividing the Mediterranean island of Cyprus since 1974. Tectonic shifts in the island’s water management were the result. Central to export oriented agricultural production since British colonial days, water has always been a policy priority throughout independence, conflict and division for all administrations on the island…
The (un)making of the Pax Turca in the Middle East
Turkey’s foreign policy activism has received mixed reviews. Some feel threatened by the alleged increasing Islamization of the country’s foreign policy, sometimes called ‘neo-Ottomanism’, which is seen as a significant revision of Turkey’s traditional transatlanticism. Others see Turkey as a stable democratic role model in a troubled region. This debate on Turkish foreign policy (TFP) remains dominated by a sense of confusion about what appear t…
Imagining a Middle Eastern ‘International Society’? A reply to Ayla Göl
This is a reply to:Gol, Ayla. 2015. “Imagining the Middle East: The state, nationalism and regional international society.” Global Discourse 5 (3): 379–394. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053191
Beyond scarcity
Mainstream academic and policy accounts of the relations between environmental change and conflict, including the conflict potential of global climate change, are usually organised around three sets of ideas: 'scarcity', 'state failure' and 'under-development'. Scarce resources are envisaged as challenging livelihoods, fomenting grievances and competition, and spurring civil and perhaps even inter-state conflict. Weak state authority is held to f…
Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security. In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing an assessment of the state of debate on climate security, and then by summarising the eight articles that follow. We observe, to start with, that contemporary climate security discourse is dominated by a problematic ensemble of…
The Balkanization of Ottoman Rule
The term `Balkanization' has found entry in the social sciences vocabulary as a metaphor for diversity at best, social and political instability for the most part, and genocidal war at worst. And yet it is precisely the emergence of a variety of national states and the Ottoman Empire's disintegration that are frequently portrayed as processes of `modernizing' as well as `naturalizing' the international system of the Balkans and the Middle East. B…
Beyond scarcity
Mainstream academic and policy accounts of the relations between environmental change and conflict, including the conflict potential of global climate change, are usually organised around three sets of ideas: 'scarcity', 'state failure' and 'under-development'. Scarce resources are envisaged as challenging livelihoods, fomenting grievances and competition, and spurring civil and perhaps even inter-state conflict. Weak state authority is held to f…
Environmental determinism as Orientalism
From 'Resource Curse' to 'Climate Conflict', more and more analyses of the current crisis in the Middle East start their reasoning from geo-physical or natural conditions as determinants of social life. Paradoxically, despite its resource riches giving rise to conflict, the region's ecology is portrayed as fragile, alien and hostile. This imperial oriental imagination, assumes that a scarce nature is mismanaged by societies and states overall inc…
Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security. In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing an assessment of the state of debate on climate security, and then by summarising the eight articles that follow. We observe, to start with, that contemporary climate security discourse is dominated by a problematic ensemble of…
The Balkanization of Ottoman Rule
The term `Balkanization' has found entry in the social sciences vocabulary as a metaphor for diversity at best, social and political instability for the most part, and genocidal war at worst. And yet it is precisely the emergence of a variety of national states and the Ottoman Empire's disintegration that are frequently portrayed as processes of `modernizing' as well as `naturalizing' the international system of the Balkans and the Middle East. B…
The (un)making of the Pax Turca in the Middle East
Turkey’s foreign policy activism has received mixed reviews. Some feel threatened by the alleged increasing Islamization of the country’s foreign policy, sometimes called ‘neo-Ottomanism’, which is seen as a significant revision of Turkey’s traditional transatlanticism. Others see Turkey as a stable democratic role model in a troubled region. This debate on Turkish foreign policy (TFP) remains dominated by a sense of confusion about what appear t…
Neo-Ottomanism, Eurasianism or securing the region? A longer view on Turkey’s interventionism
Few observers will have noticed that Turkey is second only to the USA in having large parts of its army stationed abroad. This contribution will focus on these interventions – which are diverse in nature and political origin. Featuring the second largest territorial army within NATO and only recently exploring its regional and, to some extent, global geopolitical ambitions, Turkey’s interventionism is ambiguous and remains difficult to make sense…
Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies
Decarbonization rush? The problem of speed in the energy transition
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria
First paragraph: The drylands of the Middle East have been long seen not only as unfavourable to life, but also and relatedly, socio-politically fragile. Fraught with myths of eternal ‘ethnic’, ‘sectarian’, or ‘resource conflict’, the chronic political instability of the Middle East from Afghanistan and Yemen to Iraq and Syria has been often seen as intrinsic to a scarce ‘nature’, a scorched earth, tendentially collapsing into brute violence whic…
From Small Streams to Pipe Dreams – The Hydro-Engineering of the Cyprus Conflict
A 2008 water crisis triggered collective fears of droughts and long-term scarcities both north and south of the buffer zone dividing the Mediterranean island of Cyprus since 1974. Tectonic shifts in the island’s water management were the result. Central to export oriented agricultural production since British colonial days, water has always been a policy priority throughout independence, conflict and division for all administrations on the island…
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation
Resource conflicts and human–environment conflicts are active around the globe. As planetary, carbon-induced climate change necessitates new responses, the policies and practices of decarbonisation add new dimensions to existing conflicts. Using examples from two nations with ambitious aims for the decarbonisation of their economies, Ethiopia and Morocco, we illustrate how unintended conflicts and adverse ecosystem impacts arise when nature canno…
Introduction to War, revolt and rupture
Imagining a Middle Eastern ‘International Society’? A reply to Ayla Göl
This is a reply to:Gol, Ayla. 2015. “Imagining the Middle East: The state, nationalism and regional international society.” Global Discourse 5 (3): 379–394. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053191
The Balkanization of Ottoman Rule
The term `Balkanization' has found entry in the social sciences vocabulary as a metaphor for diversity at best, social and political instability for the most part, and genocidal war at worst. And yet it is precisely the emergence of a variety of national states and the Ottoman Empire's disintegration that are frequently portrayed as processes of `modernizing' as well as `naturalizing' the international system of the Balkans and the Middle East. B…
Beyond scarcity
Mainstream academic and policy accounts of the relations between environmental change and conflict, including the conflict potential of global climate change, are usually organised around three sets of ideas: 'scarcity', 'state failure' and 'under-development'. Scarce resources are envisaged as challenging livelihoods, fomenting grievances and competition, and spurring civil and perhaps even inter-state conflict. Weak state authority is held to f…
Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security. In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing an assessment of the state of debate on climate security, and then by summarising the eight articles that follow. We observe, to start with, that contemporary climate security discourse is dominated by a problematic ensemble of…
Imagining a Middle Eastern ‘International Society’? A reply to Ayla Göl
This is a reply to:Gol, Ayla. 2015. “Imagining the Middle East: The state, nationalism and regional international society.” Global Discourse 5 (3): 379–394. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053191
The (un)making of the Pax Turca in the Middle East
Turkey’s foreign policy activism has received mixed reviews. Some feel threatened by the alleged increasing Islamization of the country’s foreign policy, sometimes called ‘neo-Ottomanism’, which is seen as a significant revision of Turkey’s traditional transatlanticism. Others see Turkey as a stable democratic role model in a troubled region. This debate on Turkish foreign policy (TFP) remains dominated by a sense of confusion about what appear t…
Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security.In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing an assessment of the state of debate on climate security, and then by summarising the eight articles that follow.We observe, to start with, that contemporary climate security discourse is dominated by a problematic ensemble of p…
From Small Streams to Pipe Dreams – The Hydro-Engineering of the Cyprus Conflict
A 2008 water crisis triggered collective fears of droughts and long-term scarcities both north and south of the buffer zone dividing the Mediterranean island of Cyprus since 1974. Tectonic shifts in the island’s water management were the result. Central to export oriented agricultural production since British colonial days, water has always been a policy priority throughout independence, conflict and division for all administrations on the island…
IKT und Klimaschutz
Im Kopernikus-Projekt ENavi werden die Rollen von Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) im Energiesystem und die Chancen der Digitalisierung für die Bereiche Strom, Wärme und Mobilität untersucht
Beyond the resource curse and pipeline conspiracies
Environmental determinism as Orientalism
From 'Resource Curse' to 'Climate Conflict', more and more analyses of the current crisis in the Middle East start their reasoning from geo-physical or natural conditions as determinants of social life. Paradoxically, despite its resource riches giving rise to conflict, the region's ecology is portrayed as fragile, alien and hostile. This imperial oriental imagination, assumes that a scarce nature is mismanaged by societies and states overall inc…
Introduction to War, revolt and rupture
Neo-Ottomanism, Eurasianism or securing the region? A longer view on Turkey’s interventionism
Few observers will have noticed that Turkey is second only to the USA in having large parts of its army stationed abroad. This contribution will focus on these interventions – which are diverse in nature and political origin. Featuring the second largest territorial army within NATO and only recently exploring its regional and, to some extent, global geopolitical ambitions, Turkey’s interventionism is ambiguous and remains difficult to make sense…
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria
First paragraph: The drylands of the Middle East have been long seen not only as unfavourable to life, but also and relatedly, socio-politically fragile. Fraught with myths of eternal ‘ethnic’, ‘sectarian’, or ‘resource conflict’, the chronic political instability of the Middle East from Afghanistan and Yemen to Iraq and Syria has been often seen as intrinsic to a scarce ‘nature’, a scorched earth, tendentially collapsing into brute violence whic…
Divided Environments
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political and violent conflict; indeed, many claim that this future is already with us. Divided Environments, however, shows that this is mistaken. Focusing especially on the links between climate change, water and security, an…
Procedural rights for nature – a pathway to sustainable decarbonisation
Resource conflicts and human–environment conflicts are active around the globe. As planetary, carbon-induced climate change necessitates new responses, the policies and practices of decarbonisation add new dimensions to existing conflicts. Using examples from two nations with ambitious aims for the decarbonisation of their economies, Ethiopia and Morocco, we illustrate how unintended conflicts and adverse ecosystem impacts arise when nature canno…
Divided Environments
A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean
The new geopolitics of energy in the Eastern Mediterranean is not determined by hydrocarbons anymore. A significant expansion of renewables is underway. Driven by a surge in ‘Green Finance’ and decarbonization policies, this development changes conventional relationships of dependency. This takes place in an environment, where Asian and Western energy security strategies rapidly evolve in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. North Africa and…
New directions in climate justice? A dialogue between critical climate justice and policy studies scholars
New directions in just climate policymaking can emerge from the dialogue between critical climate justice and policy studies scholars. Current climate justice research presents a strong and coherent message about the scale and urgency of climatic challenges, historical responsibilities, colonialism, systemic inequalities, intersectionality and the role of recognitional, procedural, and distributional justice-driven solutions. However, it struggle…
Decarbonization rush? The problem of speed in the energy transition
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