Rate My Professor Jan Selby

His research focuses on the political causes of and responses to climate and other environmental changes, informed by political ecology, historical materialist and post-colonial International Relations perspectives. Core specializations include climate politics, encompassing security implications in regions such as Sudan, Syria and the Lake Chad basin; water politics, with emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian dynamics and critiques of water wars narratives; climate vulnerability, adaptation and migration patterns; and climate mitigation politics, including multilateral processes, energy transitions and global methane emissions governance. Key publications include Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge University Press, 2022, co-authored with Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann), Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East (Bloomsbury), and edited volumes such as those on global governance (Springer, 2003, co-edited with Feargal Cochrane and Rosaleen Duffy), militarism and International Relations (Routledge, 2012, co-edited with Anna Stavrianakis), and the purpose of International Relations (Routledge, 2017, with Synne Dyvik and Rorden Wilkinson). He delivered the Kenneth Waltz Memorial Lecture on multilateral climate processes and energy transition politics (European Journal of International Relations, 2022) and his Faculty Inaugural Lecture at Leeds in 2024. Selby leads the Global Methane Politics (METH-POL) project, funded by a €2.5 million European Research Council advanced grant, the first such grant awarded to the University of Leeds since the UK's rejoining of the EU's Horizon programme.