The Environment and International Relations Theories and Processes

About this book

This volume provides a wide ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. A range of key international processes is considered: from the formulation of issues through to the monitoring and implementation of international agreement. Also contained 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.

Contents

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

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