Jan Selby
Honorary Professor

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Biography

Jan Selby is Professor of International Politics and Climate Change at the University of Leeds, as well as Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of York.

Jan has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Lancaster, and previously worked at Lancaster (2000-02), Aberystwyth (2002-04), Sussex (2005-20) and Sheffield (2020-23).

Jan’s research focuses on the political causes of, and responses to, climate and other environmental changes, though he has also worked periodically on themes in International Relations theory; conflict, peacebuilding and development; and Middle East politics.

His most recent book is Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge University Press 2022, co-authored with Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann).

Publications

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Books

2022 - Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-authored with Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann).
2017 - What’s the Point of International Relations? London: Routledge (co-edited with Synne Dyvik and Rorden Wilkinson).
2015 - Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security, London: Routledge (co-edited with Clemens Hoffmann).
2012 - Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory, London: Routledge (co-edited with Anna Stavrianakis).
2003b - Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance, London: Palgrave (co-edited with Feargal Cochrane and Rosaleen Duffy).
2003a - Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, London: IB Tauris.

Journal articles

2024 - ‘Climate change and migration: a review and new framework for analysis’, WIREs Climate Change, 886 (with Gabrielle Daoust).
2023b - ‘Climate change and conflict’, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (with Cullen Hendrix, Vally Koubi, Ayesha Siddiqi and Nina von Uexkull).
2023a - ‘Understanding the politics of climate security policy discourse: the case of the Lake Chad basin’, Geopolitics, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 1285-1322 (co-authored with Gabrielle Daoust).
2022 - ‘International/inter-carbonic relations’, text expanded from Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture 2020/21, International Relations, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 329-57.
2020b - ‘On blaming climate change for the Syrian civil war’, Middle East Report, No. 296.
2020a - ‘Governing energy in organisations: energy management professionals, marginalised practices, and the limits to change’, Environmental Policy and Governance, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 60-75 (co-authored with Sarah Royston and Sofia Kesidou).
2019d - ‘Climate change and the Syrian civil war, part II: the Jazira’s agrarian crisis’, Geoforum, special section on The New Politics and Geographies of Scarcity, Vol. 101, pp. 260-74.
2019c - ‘From exports to exercise: how non-energy policies affect energy systems’, Energy Research and Social Science, Vol. 55, pp. 179-88 (co-authored with Emily Cox and Sarah Royston).
2019b - ‘The Trump presidency, climate change, and the prospect of a disorderly energy transition’, Review of International Studies, special forum on the Trump Presidency, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 471-90.
2019a - ‘Modelling energy demand from higher education institutions: a case study of the UK’, Applied Energy, Vol. 233-34, pp. 816-26 (co-authored with Zia Wadud and Sarah Royston).
2018b - ‘Invisible energy policies: a new agenda for energy demand reduction’,
Energy Policy, Vol. 123, pp. 127-35 (co-authored with Sarah Royston and Elizabeth Shove).
2018a - ‘Critical International Relations and the impact agenda’, British Politics, special issue on The Impact Agenda in British Higher Education, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 332-47.
2017b - ‘Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited: a rejoinder’, Political Geography, Vol. 60, pp. 253-55 (co-authored with Omar Dahi, Christiane Fröhlich and Mike Hulme).
2017a - ‘Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited’, Political Geography, Vol. 60, pp. 232-44 (co-authored with Omar Dahi, Christiane Fröhlich and Mike Hulme). Article published as the lead article of a special section, followed by 3 responses and a rejoinder.
2016 - ‘Introduction: eight myths of conflict and development in the Middle East’, IDS Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 1-18 (co-authored with Mariz Tadros).
2015 - ‘Misrepresenting the Jordan River Basin’, Water Alternatives, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 258-79 (co-authored with Clemens Messerschmid).
2014c - ‘Positivist climate conflict research: a critique’, Geopolitics, special issue on climate conflict, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 829-56.
2014b - ‘Rethinking climate change, conflict and security’, Introduction to special issue of Geopolitics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 747-56 (co-authored with Clemens Hoffmann).
2014a - ‘Beyond scarcity: rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans’, Global Environmental Change, special issue on climate change, hydro-conflicts and human security, Vol. 29, pp. 360-70 (co-authored with Clemens Hoffmann).
2013b - ‘The myth of liberal peace-building’, Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 57-86.
2013a - ‘Cooperation, domination and colonisation: the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee’, Water Alternatives, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-24.
2012 - ‘Water scarcity, conflict and migration: a comparative analysis and reappraisal’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, special issue on migration and global environmental change, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 997-1014 (co-authored with Clemens Hoffmann).
2007 - ‘Engaging Foucault: discourse, liberal governance and the limits of Foucauldian IR’, International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 324-45.
2006 - ‘Edward Said: truth, justice and nationalism’, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, special issue on Edward Said and nationalism, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 40-55.
2005c - ‘The geopolitics of water in the Middle East: fantasies and realities’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 329-49.
2005b - ‘Oil and water: the contrasting anatomies of resource conflicts’, Government and Opposition, special issue on resource conflicts, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 200-224.
2005a - ‘Post-Zionist perspectives on contemporary Israel’, New Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 107-120.
2003 - ‘Dressing up domination as “cooperation”: the case of Israeli-Palestinian water relations’, Review of International Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 121-38. Translated and published in German in the journal Israel & Palästina, Vol. 3 (2007), pp. 36-59.
1996 - ‘The Palestinian water crisis: status, projections and potential for resolution’, Natural Resources Forum, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 17-26 (co-authored with Jad Isaac).

Jan Selby Honorary Professor