Delf Rothe

Week After Week, The US is Dismantling Knowledge Infrastructure | TechPolicy.Press Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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A picture of a laptop on an ICE Deutsche Bahn train. On the screen, one can see a PowerPoint slide saying "Ten Years of Critical Security Studies in Germany: Taking stock".

On my way to the annual conference of the @dvpw.bsky.social Critical Security Studies working group. You can still register for our roundtable "Ten years of critical security studies in Germany: Taking stock", tonight at 6:15 p.m., with a stellar lineup of speakers www.linkedin.com/posts/jochen...

Roundtable | 'Gaia’s Lifeboats & Its Stewards'

Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield

Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social

🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET
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Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Alles richtig gemacht:

Yeah, it’s done! Glückwunsch an alle Aktiven und Helfenden 🥳

Oh mein Gott ist das spannend 😱 weiter Daumen drücken...

Am Sonntag fällt die Entscheidung über den Zukunftsentscheid in Hamburg. Geh zur Abstimmung und informiere Freund*innen und Bekannte – jede Stimme zählt!

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

“If we continue, however, with the policies that we have out there, we are clearly on a pathway now of 2.7 degrees or 3 degrees where adaptation is simply not doable anymore. This is just what it is. We cannot protect Amsterdam from sea level rise of 3m. This is just not doable,” Thallinger said.

Screenshot einer Zeitungsheadline mit der Frage "Warum sind plötzlich alle ausgebrannt?"

Ja warum bloß? 🤔 Es ist ein Rätsel...

1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. #EISAPEC26

PEC 2026 Local hosts and programme chairs. 1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Giulia Daniele, Local Host. Ana Mónica Fonseca, Local Host. Elizaveta Gaufman, Programme Chair. Nizar Messari, Programme Chair.

📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026!

⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R

🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025

A protest sign at a climate demonstration saying "Indigenous Justice is Climate Justice".

Stefano Guzzini concludes the issue with a plea for "Foregrounding politics". He counters a geopolitical discourse that externalises nature with an inside-out perspective that centers the ideas of affected communities, and advocates an ‘ethics of prudence’. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An aerial view of Shiosakibashi intersection from Dentsu Headquarters Building in Tokyo, Japan

In the forum "At the crossroads," @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social, David Chandler, Marwa Daoudy, @ritafloyd.bsky.social, and @dahlia-cs.bsky.social discuss how our questions, concepts, and methodologies must change if we take the ecological crisis seriously www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A satellite image of a river delta in green and beige colors.

@mattuq.bsky.social studies how international and domestic bodies mobilise security discourses in relation to climate change and explores the institutional prospects and hurdles for an ecological security agenda. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A satellite in space is seen in front of the Earth with visible clouds.

@simondalby.bsky.social's paper "Reframing climate security" discusses how discourses and practices of climate security would need to change if the planetary dimension of the crisis, rather than national security concerns, were to take centre stage. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A flag of the Fratelli d'Italia party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hangs on a barrier at a public event.

@giobettini.bsky.social & Anna Casaglia offer a timely empirical case study of how illiberal politics shape the climate-security nexus by unpacking "Italy’s right-wing approach to climate migration and security". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A satellite image of the Thar Desert in India.

In "The slow violence of climate security," Shannon O'Lear brings attention to the overlooked, incremental harms of climate change, complicating fast-moving security narratives. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A collage-like illustration of the interlinkages between climate change and security

Our framing paper "Recomposing the climate–security nexus", by @chrhentschel.bsky.social, @uschroeder.bsky.social, and me, proposes to theorize climate security as a composition to capture its material, discursive, temporal, and affective dimensions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change?

📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Klimaaktivist:innen demonstrieren (c) Tobias König

Wie stellen sich Klima-Aktivist:innen die Zukunft vor, und welche Rolle spielen Bilder? Die Wissenschaftler Delf Rothe und David Shim haben dazu geforscht und stellen ihre Ergebnisse am 17. September um 18 Uhr in der Kunstklinik Eppendorf in Hamburg vor. Der Eintritt ist frei. ➡️ t1p.de/6kwxq

What would security look like if we moved beyond walls, borders, and exclusion? 🌍

Tomorrow we start our international workshop in #Hamburg exploring whether security can be reclaimed from far-right narratives - or if we need entirely new frameworks for protection & care.

Nuclear power plants are supreme!

Enter #TeamJellyfish..

Funding from the Hans Böckler Foundation has been made available for up to eleven doctoral scholarships at the University of Erfurt for the doctoral programme ‘De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE)’.
Application deadline: 2 November 2025
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Neonazis feiern Sonnenwende: Ein Feuer wie beim Führer Rund 80 deutsche Neonazis feiern in Tschechien Sonnen­wende, singen Hitlerjugend-Lieder und beschwören das „germanische Volk“. Auch AfD-nahe Politiker sind dabei. Die taz war vor Ort.

Rund 80 deutsche Neonazis feiern in Tschechien Sonnen­wende, singen Hitlerjugend-Lieder und beschwören das „germanische Volk“. Auch AfD-nahe Politiker sind dabei. Die taz war vor Ort.

Entrance of the Hamburg main train station

And so my journey to #EWIS2025 begins… with a cancelled train. ☹️ Have a drink for me at the reception

With inputs by @phil-lottholz.bsky.social, @mariamsalehi.bsky.social, @laurakotzur.bsky.social, @marcokrueger.bsky.social, and others, we discussed the relationship between activism and scholarship. And we did a great guided tour on social struggles in St.Pauli

Inspiring first day of our "Co-Laborating for Change: The future of peace and security in an age of crises" workshop hosted by @ifshhamburg.bsky.social in Hamburg.