ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an in-depth and detailed study of security discourses and their political implications at three different political levels, the international, the regional and the national. Important political bodies in global security governance, such as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) discussed the security implications of climate change and possible political means to deal with them. The book outlines the discursive deep structure of climate security discourse as a result of a fine-tuned synchronic discourse analysis. It focuses on the climate change and security discourse at the international level. The book also focuses on a regional level and studies the European Union's discourse on the security implications of climate change in its southern neighbourhood: the Mediterranean. It discusses the political and institutional effects of climate security discourse against the backdrop of the case of the UK.
