Images and International Security: Theory, method, cases

Name of applicant

Lene Hansen

Title

Professor

Institution

University of Copenhagen

Amount

DKK 127,790

Year

2025

Type of grant

Publication

Summary

Images are crucial to international security. Think of three examples: the three-year old Alan Kurdi who drowned in 2015, people desperately trying to get onto planes leaving Kabul in 2021, extreme weather, like the flooding in Valencia in 2024, as sign of climate change. This book provides a detailed theory of how images come to "speak" security and how they impact policy debates and decisions.

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