Forschungsthema

Research Fields & Expertise

International Relations and Political Theory; Security Studies; Peace & Conflict Studies; Global Governance; Climate Politics and Climate Security

Judith Nora Hardt works as a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre Marc Bloch (An-Institut Humboldt University, Berlin) on the topics of “the economic challenges of globalisation of the European Union”. In 2014, Judith received her PhD (Dr. Phil) in International Relations from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) on the topic of “Environmental Security in the Anthropocene”. She worked as a lecturer for International Relations, nature conservation and socioeconomics at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany) and is part of the research group “Climate Change and Security” at the University of Hamburg since 2017. She has carried out several research stays in Ecuador, Canada, Switzerland and France and is active in the Network of Scientist For Future.

Her research is based on a critical-normative approach and aims to develop the conceptualizations of security, conflict, human well-being and justice via the new readings of human-nature relations. The forms and roles of agency, expertise, power and normative foundations within global governance are further constitutive elements of her research. The emerging Anthropocene Studies and the question of the changing critical theories in this context are also part of her research.

Professional memberships

International Studies Association; International Political Science Association; European Consortium of Political Research; German Political Science Association; Federation of German Scientists; Scientists for Future

Titel der Dissertation

Environmental Security in the Anthropocene

Institution der Dissertation

University of the Basque Country

Betreuer

Dr. Karlos Pérez de Armiño

Projekte

In association with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, Judith leads the project „Climate change in security perceptions, conceptions and practice at the United Nations Security Council”. In this project she follows the aim to develop new policy recommendations in order to address the several challenges of the climate security field with the joined forces of the triangulation of theory and practice.

Description

Since 2007, the effects and perceived threats of climate change has been the subject of controversial discussion in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Does climate change influence the perception, conception and practice of national and international security? This question is explored by examining 15 country case studies at the UNSC. The research approach is based on a broad understanding of security policy and constructive approaches to security of Peace, Conflict and Security Studies. A special feature of the project, which is carried out in cooperation between the Institute for Peace Research and Security Poliy and the Climate Change and Security Research Group, is the inclusion of local expertise and a wide scientific network. The project is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

https://ifsh.de/en/research/climate-research/clisec-unsc

Coordination of other projects

Coordination and production with the team of Bernhard Steinberger, Patrick Bürger and Sebastian Rau. September 2019. Youtube-Video “A call to politics” Scientist for Future

The video is based on statements from 133 German speaking scientists addressed to the governments of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and transports the S4F-Statement, which was signed in May 2019 by more than 26.000 scientist and includes the contribution from Greta Thunberg. It was released on Youtube and in several cinemas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZYh0aTSvBA

https://www.scientists4future.org/

The short version has more than 210.000 clicks on twitter: https://twitter.com/sciforfuture

Publikationen

Book

Hardt, Judith Nora (2018) Environmental Security in the Anthropocene. Assessing Theory and Practice, London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Security-in-the-Anthropocene-Assessing-Theory-and-Practice/Hardt/p/book/9781138704893.

Book Chapters

Hardt, Judith Nora (forthcoming in 2020) “Trajectories towards the existential. Encounters with Earth System Sciences: Planetary Boundaries and Hothouse Earth”, in Chandler, David, Rothe, Delf and Mueller, Franziska (eds.) International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Actors, new Agencies and new approaches, Routledge.

Hardt, Judith Nora (forthcoming in 2020) “Critical evaluation of the environmental security concept implementation: the case study of the Environment and Security Initiative”, in Brzoska, Michael and Scheffran, Jürgen(eds.) Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg, Hamburg: Hamburg University Press: 265-288.

Hardt, Judith Nora and Scheffran, Jürgen (2019) “Environmental peacebuilding and climate change”, in Pérez de Armiño, Karlos and Zirion, Iker (eds.) Critical visions of peacebuilding (original title: Visiones críticas de la construcción de la paz), Madrid: Technos.

Hardt, Judith Nora (2018) “Security Studies and the Discourse on the Anthropocene: Shortcomings, Challenges and Opportunities”, in Hickmann, Thomas; Partzsch, Lena; Pattberg, Philipp and Weiland, Sabine (eds.) The Anthropocene Debate and Political Sciences, London: Routledge, pp. 85-102.

Hardt, Judith Nora (2012) “Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene”, in Scheffran, Jürgen et al. (eds.)  Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict–Challenges to Social Stability, Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. VIII, Berlin: Springer, pp. 207-221. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-28626-1_10

Journal Articles

Hardt, Judith Nora (in review process) “Complementing critique with affirmation”, in Journal ofGlobal Society.

Hagedorn, G, Loew, T., Seneviratne, S.I., Lucht, W., Beck, M.-L., Hesse, J., Knutti, R., Quaschning, V, Schleimer, J.-H., Mattauch, L., Breyer, C., Hübener, H., Kirchengast, G., Chodura, A., Clausen, J., Creutzig, F., Darbi, M., Daub, C.-H., Ekardt, F., Göpel, M., Hardt, J.N., Hertin, J., Hickler, T., Köhncke, A., Köster, S., Krohmer, J., Kromp-Kolb, H., Leinfelder, R., Mederake, L., Neuhaus, M., Rahmstorf, S., Schmidt, C., Schneider, C., Schneider, G., Seppelt, R., Spindler, U., Springmann, M.,Staab, K., Stocker, T., Steininger, K., Von Hirschhausen, E., Winter, S., Wittau, M. & Zens, J. (2019) “The concerns of the young protesters are justified. A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection”, GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Vol. 28/2: 79-87.

Hardt, Judith Nora (2009) “The environmental challenge and development: evolution of the theoretical concepts and the international institutional initiatives” (original title: La problemática medioambiental y el desarrollo: La evolución de los avances teóricos y de las iniciativas institucionales internacionales), in Revista Trabajos y Ensayos, 9, http://www.diprriihd.ehu.es/revistadoctorado/n9/Hardt09.pdf

Hardt, Judith Nora (2008) “Environmental Security in the Theory and Practice of International Relations” (original title: Seguridad medioambiental en la teoría y en la práctica de las Relaciones Internacionales), in Revista Trabajos y Ensayos, 7, http://www.diprriihd.ehu.es/revistadoctorado/n7/Hardt07.pdf

Other publications

Hardt, Judith Nora and Viehoff, Alina (2020) "A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus", IFSH-Research Report, https://ifsh.de/en/publications/research-report/research-report-005

Hardt, Judith Nora (2020) "A Climate for Change in the UNSC? Member States’ Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus", IFSH Policy Brief, https://ifsh.de/news-detail/neuer-ifsh-policy-brief-a-climate-for-change-in-the-unsc)

Hardt, Judith Nora and Viehoff, Alina (2020) "Der UN-Sicherheitsrat im (Klima-)Wandel?", DGVN UN-Debattenblog, https://dgvn.de/meldung/der-un-sicherheitsrat-im-klima-wandel/ 

Hardt, Judith Nora and Scheffran, Jürgen (2019) "Environmental Peacebuilding and Climate Change: Peace and Conflict Studies at the Edge of Transformation". Policy Brief No. 68 (December), Toda Peace Institute. Online free access: https://toda.org/policy-briefs-and-resources/policy-briefs/environmental-peacebuilding-and-climate-change-peace-and-conflict-studies-at-the-edge-of-transformation.html

Mainberger, Christoph, Jürgen Scheffran, Judith Nora Hardt (2019) "Report of session 3 “Climate Extremes and Security”. In: Herrenhausen Conference October 9-11, 2019 Extreme Events – Building Climate Resilient Societies. DOI: 10.17871/HK-report-session-3.

Hardt, Judith Nora (2017) "Society in times of (Climate) Change. A claim to the German ethic council to take action” (original title: Gesellschaft im (Klima)Wandel. Ein Aufruf an den Deutschen Ethikrat), http://www.klimaretter.info/meinungen/standpunkte/23959-ethikrat-soll-klimawandel-thematisieren

Selected conference, workshop and seminar presentations (2017- 2019)

10.2019

Co-organizer of the Session “Climate Extremes and Security”, Herrenhausen Conference, Hannover                   https://climate-extremes-emergent-risks.org/hkextremes2019/hkextremes2019_sessions/

10.2019

Paper “Peace and Conflict Studies at the Edge of Transformation” & “The role of climate change in security conceptions at the UNSC”, Environmental Peacebuilding Conference, Irvine, USA.

09.2019

Invitation to the workshop “Including Future into Politics”, Paper “ZukunftsRunden. Proposal from the Scientists for Future”, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam

09.2019

Paper “Governing climate security and socio-ecological transformation”, KOSMOS Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin

06.2019

Paper “Planetary security: between conceptual approaches, practice and expertise”, European Workshop in International Studies, Krakow, Poland

05.2019

Invitation to the expert workshop “Climate-related security risks”, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden

03.2019

Paper “From practice to theory: a critical cartography of institutional approaches to climate security”, International Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada 

01.2019

Book presentation “Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice”, GLOBUS Project, Institute of Political Science, University Tübingen, Tübingen

12.2018

Paper ““Ethics of/for the future Viability of Society: a future vision for the German Ethics Council”, DAAD Conference: Envisioning the Future for Germany and Europe, Berlin

09.2018

Paper ”Between planetary boundaries and the SDGs” & Paper “Complementing Critique with Affirmation”, European International Studies Association, Prague, Czech Republic

09.2018

Invitation to the workshop “Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific”, University of Otago’s Auckland Centre, Toda Peace Institute, New Zealand

08.2018

Paper “Critical analysis of environmental security in the Planetary Security Initiative,” European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), Hamburg, Germany

06.2018

Paper “Environmental security in the Anthropocene: between boundaries and normative pathways”, Conference: The Right Use of the Earth, Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris, France

06.2018

Joined paper with Jürgen Scheffran, Rebecca Froese, Janpeter Schilling “Environmental Security, Resilience & Sustainable Peacebuilding”, 24th International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference, Messina, Italy

04.2018

Workshop of the German-French research network, Project “Changing Societies: New Frameworks for Modern Societies”, Berlin Social Science Center, Germany

04.2018

Book presentation “Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice”

Seminar at the Collège d’Études Mondiales, FMSH, Paris

02.2018

Berlin Workshops in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems, HU Berlin, Germany

12.2017

Workshop “International Relations in an age of critique”, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany

07.2017

Co-Workshop of the Research Group “Climate Change, Migration and Conflict” and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Hamburg, Germany

07. 2017

Workshop of the German-French research network, Project “Changing Societies: Some are more Equals than Others”, Berlin Social Science Center, Germany

04.2017

Paper on Anthropocene and Security, DVWP, University of Potsdam, Germany