Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate change politics although it was originally set up as a 'leaderless Europe' in which decision-making powers are spread amongst EU institutional, member state and societal actors.
The central aim of this book, which is written by leading experts in the field, is to explain what kind of leadership has been offered by EU institutional, member state and societal actors. Although leadership is the overarching theme of the book, all...
Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate c...
'Politics and the Environment' includes chapters on environmental philosophy and ideology, environmental movements, collective action, environment and economics. Each chapter includes real-life examples of pressing problems.
'Politics and the Environment' includes chapters on environmental philosophy and ideology, environmental movements, collective action, environment and...
Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are questions and perennial problems concerning what justifies the initial resort to war, who may be legitimately targeted in warfare, who should be permitted to serve the military, the collateral effects of military weaponry and the methods of determining and dealing with violations of the laws of war....
Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that ...