Dr. Delf Rothe

Senior Researcher
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rothe@ifsh.de
Hamburg
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Vita

Delf Rothe is a senior researcher at IFSH and a member of the sub-project B3 Conflict and Cooperation at the Climate–Security Nexus of the CliCCS Cluster of Excellence at Universität Hamburg. From March 2018 to November 2021, he headed the project The Knowledge Politics of Security in the Anthropocene, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Before that, Delf Rothe was a member of the Universität Hamburg's ‘Sustainable Futures’ postdoc programme for two years, with a research project on the rise of resilience as a novel concept in security governance. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Political Science at Universität Hamburg with a thesis on the securitisation of climate change in 2014. He spent two research semesters abroad at the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and the University of California, USA in 2014/2015.  

Research profile

  • Climate change and security
  • Critical Security Studies
  • Resilience
  • Digital technologies
  • Knowledge Politics 

Memberships & professional activities

  • Senior Researcher, Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’ (CLICCS)
  • Speaker of the Working Group ‘Critical Security Studies’ of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) 

Selected Publications

  • Rothe, Delf, Christine Hentschel, Ursula Schröder. 2025. Recomposing the Climate-Security Nexus: A Conceptual Introduction. Geoforum 159 (February): 104195. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104195.
  • Rothe, Delf, Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Taukiei Kitara. 2024. Digital Tuvalu: State Sovereignty in a World of Climate Loss. International Affairs 100 (4): 1491-1509. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae060.
  • Rothe, Delf. 2024. When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth. International Political Sociology 18 (3): olae022. DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae022.
  • Rothe, Delf. 2024. Green Resilience: Securing Life through Vegetal Being. Political Geography 109 (March): 103042. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103042.
  • Benner, Ann-Kathrin, Delf Rothe. 2023. World in the Making: On the Global Visual Politics of Climate Engineering. Review of International Studies 50 (1): 79-106. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210523000025.
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Projects

Climate, Climate Change, and Society (CLICCS)
Security Imaginaries of Climate Movements (SECIMA)