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.