The Environment and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415122146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 248 str.

John Vogler

Opis

The volume takes a long view of the relevance of different theoretical approaches in international relations to the study of global environmental change, rather than the more familiar case-study approach. It provides a survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. There are chapters on normative theory and the idea of environmental security, and the significant connections between gender and global environmental change. A radical approach is taken to international political ecology and international political economy. A range of key international processes are considered, from the formulation of issues through to the monitoring and implementation of international agreement. There are chapters on: conference diplomacy; the role of international organisation; the role of ideology in negotiations; and the important interaction between trade and environmental issues. A critical treatment of the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism is also included.

Spis treści

1.Introduction, The Environment in International Relations: Legacies and Contentions 2. Environment and Security as a Universal Value: Implications for International Theory 3. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Change 4. IR Theory: Neo-Realism, Neo-Institutionalism and the Climate Change Convention 5. Inernational Relations, Social Ecology and the Globalisation of Environmental Change 6. Gender and Environmental Change: Are Women the Key to Safe-Guarding the Planet? 7. Who Cares About the Environment? 8. The Environment and the United Nations 9. Between the Devil and the Law of the Sea: The Generation of Global Environmental Norms 10. The International Research Enterprise and Global Enviornmental Change: Climate Change Policy as Research Process 11. Environmental Regimes: Effectiveness and Implementation Review 12. Hegemonic Ideology and the International Timber Association

O autorze

John Vogler is Professor of International Relations at Liverpool John Moores University and convenor of the ESRC International Relations of Global Environmental Change group., Mark F.Imber is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.