On 9 December 2025, Corinne Lamain will defend her PhD thesis examining the rise, expansion and stretching of climate security as a discourse and practice globally.
- PhD student
- Date
- Tuesday 9 Dec 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Lamain argues that discussions of climate security need to be seen as extensions of the debates on climate politics, climate securities and socio-ecological conflicts. She notes that state security and military interests are currently central to discussions on climate security.
She highlights six risks associated with this framing and presents an example in Nepal of an emerging avenue of climate security.
Download the abstracts
Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
- Professor Jun Borras
- Professor Murat Arsel
- Professor Ashok Swain, Uppsala University
Full Doctoral Committee
- Professor Anamika Barua, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- Professor Rosaleen Duffy, University of Sheffield
- Professor Bram Büscher, Wageningen University & Research
- Professor Lorenzo Pellegrini, ISS
- Dr Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, ISS
- More information
The Public Defence will take place on Tuesday, 9 December 2025 in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) and the ceremony will begin promptly at 13:00 hrs. The doors will be closed at the start of the Public Defence.
Children below the age of 7 are not allowed in the auditorium during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- Related links
- ISS PhD programme
