Dr. Delf Rothe

Delf Rothe studied political science, social and economic history as well as linguistics from 2002 until 2008 at the University of Hamburg. He has written his PhD-thesis on the securitization of international climate politics from 2009-2012 at the department of International Relations, University of Hamburg with a scholarship from the German Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. During and after his PhD he worked Politics as research fellow at the Institute of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Annette Jünemann) of the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. From January until March 2012 he was visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam within the ‘European Security Culture’ project led by Prof. Dr. Marieke de Goede. Recently, he was a visiting postdoc scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, hosted by Prof. Ronnie Lipschutz from November 2014 until March 2015. Delf Rothe has published on securitization theory, risk-management, global climate governance, and discourse theory in journals such as Security Dialogue, International Relations, and International Relations and Development. He is editor of two recent volumes on ‘Interpretive approaches to global climate governance’ (Routledge 2013) and ‘Euro-Mediterranean Relations after the Arab Spring (Ashgate 2013).

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