this fascinating and rich volume brings together a group of outstanding scholars to address an important set of questions for both IR and GEP scholarship. It opens up space to broaden and sharpen analyses of great green powers in the future, using the conceptual toolkit provided.

Manjana Milkoreit, Perspectives on Politics

Falkner and Buzan provide a persuasive conceptual basis to understand the core challenges countries must overcome if equity and responsibility in international environmental policy are to be accepted and advanced by those with significant environmental great power.

Rebecca Peters, Chatham House, UK, International Affairs

Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan have gathered a sterling set of contributors—11 of 16 of which are women—to advance their arguments and build a compelling framework...[they offer] a more global yet focused approach that will help academics and policy-makers grapple with environmental issues beyond country-specific analyses...contributors explore the relationship between great power status, the management of global international society and the nature of great power responsibility...This level of conceptual clarity is a welcome addition to the IR literature... Falkner and Buzan provide a persuasive conceptual basis to understand the core challenges countries must overcome if equity and responsibility in international environmental policy are to be accepted and advanced by those with significant environmental great power.

Rebecca Peters, International Affairs

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The book enriches the debate on the role of large powers in global governance and will be of interest to scholars interested in the global environmental policy. Naturally, the book leaves many avenues open for future publications, such as the role of African countries or small States islanders who, having no power in other areas of international relations, have have proven to be good leaders in demanding greater climate ambition from States with greater historical responsibility.

Xira Ruiz Campillo, Revista Electrónica De Estudios Internacionales

Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities, edited by Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan, is a significant contribution to the realm of international relations and environmental politics.

LSE Review of Books

Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities is a seminal work. It expertly delineates the concept of great environmental power, its positive and negative dimensions, and ensuing responsibilities. It has the potential to reposition global climate change from a sidelined issue to a central focus in foreign policy agendas.

Burak Elmalı, LSE Blog

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers and great power management, with global environmental politics (GEP) scholarship. The book brings together leading scholars in IR and GEP whose contributions focus on major environmental powers (United States, China, European Union, India, Brazil, Russia) and international institutions and issue areas (UN Security Council, multilateral environmental agreements, international climate leadership, coal politics). The contributors to this volume examine how individual great powers have responded to the global climate challenge and whether they have accepted a special responsibility for stabilizing the global climate. They place emerging discourses on great power responsibility in the context of wider debates about international environmental leadership and climate change securitization. And they provide new insights into how international power inequality intersects with the global ecological crisis, and what special role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming.
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This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change.
Part I: Introduction 1: Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan: Introduction 2: Barry Buzan and Robert Falkner: Great Powers and Environmental Responsibilities: A Conceptual Framework Part II: Environmental Powers 3: Robyn Eckersley: Great Expectations: The United States and the Global Environment 4: Pichamon Yeophantong and Evelyn Goh: China as a 'Partial' Environmental Great Power 5: Katja Biedenkopf, Claire Dupont, and Diarmuid Torney: The European Union: A Green Great Power? 6: Kathryn Hochstetler: Brazil: A Boundary Case of Environmental Power 7: Miriam Prys-Hansen: Politics of Responsibility: India in Global Climate Governance 8: Alina Averchenkova: Great Power Ambitions and National Interest in Russia's Climate Change Policy Part III: International Institutions and Issue Areas 9: Shirley Scott: Great Power Responsibility for Climate Security in the United Nations Security Council 10: Sanna Kopra: Great Power Responsibility and International Climate Leadership 11: Susan Park: Environmental Great Powers and Multilateral Environmental Agreements 12: Stacy D. VanDeveer and Tim Boersma: World on Fire: Coal Politics and Great Power Responsibility Part IV: Conclusions 13: Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan: Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Responsibilities: A Concluding Assessment
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Robert Falkner is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include Environmentalism and Global International Security (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Barry Buzan is a Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor in the LSE Department of International Relations and a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. His publications include Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (co-edted with Evelyn Goh, OUP, 2020), The Making of Global International Relations (with Amitav Acharya, Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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The first-ever comprehensive study of great powers in international climate politics Offers a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations Connects international relations debates on international power and great power responsibility with the study of global environmental politics Offers a rich empirical account of the role that leading powers play in international climate politics, and how they have defined their special responsibilities in this area Explores the security implications of climate change and whether climate securitization could lead to great power management of the global climate threat
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198866022
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
670 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
316

Om bidragsyterne

Robert Falkner is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include Environmentalism and Global International Security (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Barry Buzan is a Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor in the LSE Department of International Relations and a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. His publications include Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (co-edted with Evelyn Goh, OUP, 2020), The Making of Global International Relations (with Amitav Acharya, Cambridge University Press, 2019).